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Artist Claudio Dicochea’s long-awaited opening is tonight at Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale from 7 to 9. In previous work Dicochea puts a genre of formal Spanish portrait painting through a series of conceptual rethinkings. A set of six of his paintings were to me the highlight of the Phoenix Art Museum’s Locals Only show last year.

Here’s Hearsight’s Scott Andrews on his work:

His painting today continues in a hybrid mode, with Disney characters and Norteño balladeers cohabiting in a Pop-Abstract world of high-low art. Drawing and cartoon transfers are placed on the sheet like collectible toys on a shelf, but don’t confuse these tableaux with facile repetition. Encoded within the play of all- too-familiar stereotypes and candy colors are not only the artist’s childhood memories but a meditation on art’s culpability in the construction of racial classification, a process that ran in tandem with the mixing of peoples after 1492.

A selection of Dicochea’s work, and that of his wife, Adriana Gallega, can be seen here. Details on the show and how to get to it here.