Scott Carrillo Azevedo, The American Home—The Broken Promise

Azevedo’s work reflects deeply personal and social histories of exclusion, particularly redlining in the Los Angeles area that impacted his family of Mexican heritage. These experiences have evolved into an artistic practice centered on reconstructing lost family histories through painting. After relocating from his home in Palm Springs to New Haven, Azevedo began incorporating imagery from vintage magazines such as _The American Home_ to reimagine family narratives shaped by systemic racism, cultural erasure, and personal tragedy—including the early death of his grandparents. Ultimately, the work explores themes of identity, loss, and belonging. Through portraiture and disrupted domestic spaces, Azevedo creates metaphors for navigating life between cultures, informed by experiences of racial ambiguity, queerness, and economic hardship in America.