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"Collector's
Choice"
Collectors are rarely asked to curate an art exhibition. The conflict seems inherent. That a collector should be asked to organize several exhibitions at around the same time is even more extraordinary. Yet Armando Durón holds a unique position in the art world of Chicano Los Angeles. A long-time collector, a passionate chronicler and a much sought opinion-maker, Durón has earned a trust that places him in the vortex of culture. With Collector’s Choice Durón challenged artists to draw out the refined and essential line in their work, the point of their artistic existence, to reach into deeper levels of your aesthetic consciousness, out of their comfort zone, to produce a new work that is from another part of their essence, the part that because of economic, political, social or simple time pressures, they hadn’t been able to get to lately, to exemplify the disinterestedness and purposelessness of the clear, perhaps unconscious mind. It was neither the formal qualities of their work or a particular image that was sought. There was no theme. Latino
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