Info and stuff for memory

Question 1

Maya Chinchilla

Answer 1

Guatemalan poet
coined ‘Central American-American’
( ref. in Cornejo article)

Question 2

Alma Lopez

Answer 2

Chicana queer artist, mexico born
lesbian
‘the digital diva’; digitial art playing with existing works and figures

Lupe and Sirena Series (from 1999)
Our Lady, 1999 (exhibited 2001)

Question 3

Ferdinand Deppe

Answer 3

German explorer and painter

San Gabriel Mission (1832)

Question 4

Patrocinio Barela

Answer 4

sculptor/ wood carver
santero sculptor
Federal Art project (1935-43) artist/ New deal artist
salary from FAP from 1935, 8 works in MoMA in 1936 and in Time magazine that year and in 1937
Mexican-American born in Arizona

Heavy Thinker (self portrait) 1935
Santo Nino de Atocha (1936)
Hope, or the 4 stages of man (1936)

Question 5

Antonio Bernal

Answer 5

painted the First Chicano Mural, 1968

Question 6

First Chicano Mural

Answer 6

1968
wall of El Teatro Campesino office, California
on plywood
Figures: Aduelita (female revolutionary mexican soldier 2. Poncho Villa 3. Indigenous Leader of south mexican movement 4. West US Robin hood like figure 5. Chavez with the UFW flag 6. Tijerina (restoration of new mexican land)
7. Malcom X 8. MLK

Question 7

Ester Hernandez

Answer 7

Chicana artist in California bay area
lesbian
prints (serigraphs) and etchings

La Virgen de Guadalupe defendiendo los derechos de los Xicanos (1975)
Libertad (1976)
Sun Mad (1982)
La Ofrenda (1988)

Question 8

Amalia Mesa-Bains

Answer 8

Chicana
Ofrenda for Dolores del Rio (1984, elaborated in 1990s)

article on Domesticana

Question 9

Dolores del Rio

Answer 9

Mexican actress
Hollywood in the 20s and 30s and also a star of the golden age of mexican cinema

Question 10

Asco

Answer 10

East LA Chicano artist collective (1972-1987)
means digust/ repulsion in spanish
merged conceptual, multimedia art with politics

Gronk, Patsi Valdez, Willie Heron, Harry Gamboa Jr.

Stations of the Cross, 1971
Walking Mural, 1972
Spray Paint LACMA
Decoy Gang War Victim (1974) (gronk)
No Movies (1975, 6)
Asshole Mural, 1975

Question 11

Gilbert ‘Magu’ Lujan

Answer 11

Chicano sculptor, muralist and painter
founded the collective Los Four

Hermanos, Stop Gang War (1977, style of calendar)
Cruising Turtle Island (1986)

Question 12

Codex Espanglinsis

Answer 12

Codex Espanglinsis: From Columbus to the Border Patro;
2001
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya and Felicia Rice

Question 13

Charles “Cat” Felix

Answer 13

Murals at Estrada courts with young men from VNE gang

The Sacrifice wall 1974
Give Me Life Mural 1973

Question 14

Los Four

Answer 14

Chicano artist collective

Frank Romero, Carlos Almaraz, Robert de la Rocha and founder Gilbert Luján
Judithe Hernández became the official fifth member

Question 15

adelita

Answer 15

adelitas is used to refer to women who participated/ fought in the mexican revolution

Question 16

Las Mujeres Muralistas

Answer 16

all female artist co-op, created the first all female US mural (whitewashed in the 80s)
because female, work was percieved as less political

Latino America 1974

Question 17

Judy Baca

Answer 17

muralist, first female muralist

Mi Abuelita, a work painted with gang members/ community youth

The Great Wall of Los Angeles, 1976-84

Question 18

Rasquachismo

Answer 18

Theory developed by Chicano scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto to describe “an underdog perspective, a view from los de abajo” (from below) in working class Chicano communities

use of “hybridization, juxtaposition, and integration” as a means of empowerment and resistance

word comes from older term rasquache (english form of Spanish term rascuache which in term is Nahuatl in origin). was widely used as classist slur

an attitude and a sensibility first, a set of formal art qualities second

Question 19

Ruben Trejo

Answer 19

indigenous immigrant from Mexico, art professor at Uni of Washington and Sculptor

Birth of the Jalapeno, 1980

Question 20

Scherezade García

Answer 20

born in Dominican republic
founder of a Dominican York artist collective

Hurricane Sandy Altar, 2013
Souvenir, Inflated Virgin, 2003
Soldier-Angel, 1998

Question 21

Diane Gamboa

Answer 21

Chicana artist
Association with ASCO, was a member from 1980-87
paper dresses and disposable streetwear

Butterscotch Twist, 1986

Question 22

The couple in the cage

Answer 22

‘Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West’ by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena
1992-1994