Past
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Roberto Gutiérrez: A Day’s Work
8 Apr - 6 May 2023 In Roberto Gutiérrez: A Day's Work, the artist presents us with a recent body of images where the comings and goings normally represented as details within his works are brought to center stage. In each of the eighteen sumi ink drawings, Roberto depicts members of a work crew toiling away on what was a hot summer day outside his studio in South Pasadena. Read more -
In Your Face: Chicano Art after CARA
28 Sep 2022 - 4 Feb 2024 In 1990, a notable exhibition attempted to create a visual documentation and analysis of the Chicano Art Movement from 1965 to 1985. CARA (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation) was organized by the Wight Art Gallery at the University of California, Los Angeles. Read more -
L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972-1989
18 Mar - 14 Aug 2022 In the 1970s and 1980s, Los Angeles-based Chicanas/os sought to scrutinize aspects of popular culture and advance alternative narratives concerning race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship-narratives that were largely absent from mainstream art practice at the time. These efforts were examined in the exhibition L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972-1989. Read more -
Shades of Us: Portraits by Eloy Torrez
29 Apr - 1 Jul 2021 Shades of Us: Portraits by Eloy Torrez captured the “diverse spectrum of individual expressions in the American social and cultural fabric,” according to guest art curator, Jimmy Centeno. With an art career spanning over 35 years, Torrez is well known for his ability to capture the liveliness and personality of his subjects. Read more -
Building Bridges in Time of Walls
28 Mar 2019 - 30 Jun 2020 The exhibition Building Bridges in Time of Walls: Chicano/Mexican Art from Los Angeles to Mexico brought together the work of 30 artists rooted in the United States who use line, color, two-dimensionality, installation, or performance to reflect their Mexican origins and express their experiences in the United States. Read more
