Cutting Edge Chicano Art at LACMA
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA)
Julio Cesar Morales
Undocumented Intervention #1, 2005
watercolor drawing on paper, 34 x 42 in.
Copyright: Julio Cesar Morales
Phantom Sightings:
Art After the Chicano Movement
Opens April 6
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90036
Opening April 6, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, is the first comprehensive consideration of the legacy Chicano art in almost two decades.
The artists—including Christina Fernandez, who documents the “phantom” in the urban landscape; Mario Ybarra Jr., who creates site-specific installations; and the art group Asco—share an interest in what Harry Gamboa Jr. has called “conceptual art in an urban form,” or what the exhibition’s curators call “phantom sightings.”
RELATED EVENTS
Symposium: Phantom Sites: Rethinking Identity and Place in Contemporary Art
The politics of identity in contemporary art
April 5 | 10 am–5:30 pm | Free
CALARTS at LACMA: Contemporary Literature
Cherríe Moraga and Helena Maria Viramontes readings
April 21 | 8 pm | Free
Conversations with Artists
Cross generational discussions about Chicano culture and art
May 4: Sandra de la Loza and Harry Gamboa
June 1: Danny Jauregui and Rubén Ortiz Torres
Both: 2 pm | Free
For tickets and information: http://www.lacma.org or 323 857-6000
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.