Greg Escalante, a bond trader who went on to become a key patron of the Lowbrow art movement as a collector, gallerist and co-founder of the magazine Juxtapoz, died Thursday evening of undisclosed causes at his home in Huntington Beach. His death was confirmed by Wendy Sherman, manager of his Chinatown namesake art space, Gregorio Escalante Gallery. “He was a huge champion of artists, especially Lowbrow artists. “He championed Lowbrow art when it was a very nascent movement,” said Mat Gleason, owner of the Chinatown art space Coagula Curatorial, and a longtime friend of Escalante’s. In the fall of 2015, Escalante went on to establish Gregorio Escalante Gallery in Chinatown as a place to showcase artists he admired.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 09, 2017 15:56 UTC