Scott Carrillo Azevedo recently opened a solo exhibition at the Long Beach Museum of Art, called “The American Home — The Broken Promise.” Despite the melancholy of that title, it is difficult to escape Azevedo’s canvases’ almost suffocating, dreamlike beauty. He meticulously lifts Midcentury interior design layouts from vintage lifestyle magazines, reconfiguring these idealized, pristine domestic spaces into surreal
backdrops. His technique channels an elevated SoCal lowbrow aesthetic, blending post-Impressionist exotica into the style. This deliberate intersection with traditional art history reclaims physical and cultural spaces historically denied to many, drawing directly from memories of housing redlining in Los Angeles, forced assimilation and queer precarity. The paintings employ exuberant palettes and intricate floral patterns to
transform generations of marginalization into gorgeous, defiant testaments. On view through Aug. 9.
