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Article: Alfredo Arreguin at the Tacoma Art Museum. (Tacoma, Washington)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1993
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Eleven large oil paintings executed between 1982 and '92 made up this small retrospective exhibition of the work of Mexican-born Alfredo Arreguin, a Seattle resident since 1957. Acclaimed in Mexico and included in museum surveys of Hispanic art in Europe, Latin America and even Uzbekistan, the 58-year-old artist nevertheless fits into no conventional category of Latino art. Each of his images is painted over an intricate gridwork which may relate to Mexican embroidery. Human and animal figures emerge slowly out of a morass of interlocking linear details which accumulate into a self-contained and unmistakably individual reality.
Arreguin has spent much of his life ...