Coagula Curatorial is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by West Coast artist Christian Spruell.

The show’s title, H Y D R I A, is derived from the Greek word for water (Water Jars). His upcoming exhibition will feature new paintings that contain the artists’ oeuvre, rooted in the Low Cool and Mission School aesthetics, circa 90’s San Francisco.

The goal of the exhibit is to replenish and to jolt life back into the viewer through electric underpainting, meticulous grids, Cross-hatching, and silhouettes using ink, acrylic, oil on canvas, wood, and paper.

The exhibition is curated by Maurizzio Hector Pineda and continues thru August 24.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Christian Spruell has exhibited Nationally notable exhibition in New York, Denver, and Los Angeles. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute and is an Alumni of the Skowhegan artist residency program. He currently lives and works in Southern California 

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Maurizzio Hector Pineda is a curator from EL Salvador who currently lives and works in Santa Ana, California. His most recent curatorial post was at the Torrance Art Museum. During his tenure at the museum, he co-curated The Gildless Age, 2016, and developed the 2017 SUR: Biennial with a focus on Cuban contemporary art for the TAM. This project was part of the Getty PST: LA/LA initiative. Mr. Pineda received his BFA degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. From 2001-2005 he was the owner and director of SWYS Gallery in Long Beach, CA, and has worked at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and for Regen Project in Beverly Hills. He has curated exhibitions for Togonon Gallery in San Francisco, was a visiting curator at The Tree House Gallery in Los Angeles, curator in residence at the NLE Curatorial Lab where he co-curated The Only Way Out Is Through (NYC) in 2014, and Curatorial Director at The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Art in San Francisco from 2009-2012.