Chicano Art Through the Collector's Eye:
Issues and Directions
Tuesday, April 5, 9:30-11 AM
Hilton Americas Grand Ballroom H
Houston, Tejas

Description: Chicano art is being recognized and collected more aggressively than ever. There have been a number of noted exhibits that have sought to define this work and individual collectors are part of what fuels interest in this emerging genre of American art. This session will present major individual Chicano/a art collectors up close and personal. Presenters will discuss what motivates them to collect this work and why they think it is important.

Speakers:

Dr. Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Associate Director for Creativity and Culture, The Rockefeller Foundation,
"Collecting Chicano Art, Historical and Cultural Contexts: Aqui Estamos Y No Nos Vamos"

Joe Diaz, Businessman, Collector
"Arte Caliente: Selections from the Joe Diaz Collection"

Dr. Gilberto Cardenas, Assistant Provost & Director Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
"Latino Art: A Holistic Approach"

Cheech Marin, Actor, Collector
"Chicano Visions: American Painters On The Verge"
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Papers and Archival Collections on Chicana/o Art

A Finding Aid to the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Research Material, 1965-1997, in the Archives of American Art
http://artarchives.si.edu/findaids/ybartoma/ybartoma.htm


Chicana/Chicano Art Centers and Resources:

Chicano Murals in Tucson
Borderlands Encyclopedia, Borderlands
Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego
Chicano Art: A Resource Guide
Chicano Visual Arts Digital Image Collection
Chicano: History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco
Hispanic American Artists
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latinoamericana (MACLA), San Jose, Calif.
Mexican Museum, San Francisco
Movimento Artistico del Rio Salado (MARS), Phoenix, AZ
Muralart.com
http://latinoartcommunity.org/community/LAC.html
Self-Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, Calif.
SPARC (Social Public Arts Resource Center), Venice, Calif.
Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), Sacramento, Calif.
The Papers of Latinos and Latin American Artists
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Selected Monographs & Exhibition Catalogues

Dunitz, Robin J. and James Prigoff. Painting the Town: Murals of California, RJD Enterprises, Los Ángeles, 1997.

Garduño, Blanca and José Antonio Rodríguez. Pasión por Frida, Museo Estudio Diego Rivera/De Grazia Art & Cultural Foundation, México, D.F./Tucson, AZ, 1991.

Rosas, Alejandro. Chicano and Latino Artists of Los Ángeles, Los Ángeles, CA. 1993.

Colors on Desert Walls: the Murals of El Paso, Miguel Juarez, Texas Western Press, UT El Paso, 1997.

Cercanias distantes = Distant relations : arte chicano irlandés y mexicano : textos críticos
Los Angeles Attractions, Museon Publishing, 2000.

California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media, Nancy Dustin Wall Mouré, Dustin Publications, 1998.

Frank Romero: Urban Iconography / Iconografía Urbana, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, 1998.

Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution—DAP Publishers, New York, 1996.

The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution–Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Company, 1995.

Paintings of California, by Arnold Skolnick—Clarkson Potter, Publishers, 1993.

CARA Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, UCLA Wight ARt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1990.

California Painters: New Work, by Henry Hopkins - Chronicle Books; San Francisco, 1989.

Le Demon des Anges, by Letellier and Pascal: Bernard Bretonniere (C.R.D.C Nantes); France, 1989.

Inside the L.A. Artist, by Marva Marrow, with introduction by Josine Ianco-Starrels - Peregrine Smith Books; Salt Lake City 1988.

Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, by Jonathan Beardsley, Jane Livingston. With an essay by: Octavio Paz. New York: Abbevile Press, 1987.

Wall Art, by Berry Merken - Running Press; Philadelphia, 1987.

Community Murals: The People's Art, Alan W. Barnett - Philadelphia, PA: Art Alliance Press, c1984.

The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970: Essays. Luis R. Cancel, et al. New York, NY: Bronx Museum of the Arts in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1988.

Chicana Voices and Visions: A National Exhibit of Women Artists: 27 Artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, and Texas. Coordinated by: Mary- Linn Hughes. Venice, CA: Social and Public Arts Resource Center, 1983.

Chicano Art History: A Book of Selected Readings. Jacinto Quirarte, ed. San Antonio, TX: Research Center for the Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1984.

Chicano Expressions: A New View in American Art: April 14-July 31, 1986. Director: Lockpez, Inverna et al. New York, NY: INTAR Latin American Gallery, 1986.

Comité Chicanarte. Chicanarte: An Exhibition. Los Angeles, CA: Comité Chicanarte, 1976.

Dale Gas: An Exhibition of Contemporary Chicano Art. Curator: Martínez, Santos. Houston, TX: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1977.

The Art of Rupert García: A Survey Exhibition, Ramón Favela, August 20, October 19, 1986. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Chronicle Books, 1986.

Goldman, Shifra M. Arte Chicano: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981. Goldman, Shifra M. and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, comps. Berkeley, CA: Chicano Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California at Berkeley, 1985.

Made in Aztlán. 1 ed. Brookman, Philip and Guillermo Gómez- Peña, eds. San Diego, CA: Centro Cultural de la Raza, 1986.

Mano a Mano Abstracción/Figuración: 16 Pintores Mexicano Americanos y Latino Americanos del Area de la Bahía de San Francisco. By: Eduardo Carrillo, et al. Santa Cruz, CA: Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, 1988.

Quirarte, Jacinto. Mexican American Artists. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1973. (The John Fielding and Lois Lasater Maher series: 2).

Signs From the Heart: California Chicano Murals. Cockcroft, Eva Sperling and Holly Barnet-Sanchez, eds. Venice, CA: Social and Public Art Resource Center, c1990. 105p.

A través de la Frontera. Coordinación por: Rodriguez Pampolini, Ida. México City, México: Centro de Estudios Económicos y Sociales del Tercer Mundo, A.C., Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, 1983. 241p.

Santa Barraza, artist of the borderlands. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2001

Chicano art : inside/outside the master's house : cultural politics and the CARA exhibition. Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 1998

The Barrio murals - Murales del Barrio, July 21-September 1, 1987. The Mexican Fine Arts Center--Museum, c1987

Street gallery. Robin J. Dunitz

San Francisco murals : community creates its muse, 1914-1994. Tim Drescher

The big picture : murals of Los Angeles. Melba Levick

Chicano graffiti and murals : the neighborhood art of Peter Quezada. Sojin Kim

Jaskowiak, Jennifer with prefaces by Eduardo Garrigues and Selma Holo. Intersecting Identities/Señas de identidad, USC Fisher Gallery /Casa de América, Los Ángeles, CA./Madrid, Spain, 1996.

Nieto, Margarita, with an essay by Bolton Colburn. Across the Street: Self-Help Graphics and Chicano Art in Los Ángeles, Laguna Art Museum, 1995.

Ela, Patrick. Faces of the City: Recent Work by Alfredo de Batuc & Miguel Ángel Reyes, Transamerica Galleries, Los Ángeles, CA., 1995.

Reed, Jim. In Their Own Image, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA., 1995.

McGee, Mike. The Elegant, the Irreverent, and the Obsessive, Cal State Univ. Fullerton, 1993.

Stallings, Tyler. Laughing Matters, Los Ángeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1993.

Mesa-Bains, Amalia . Chicano Expressions, Serigraphs from the Collection of Self Help Graphics, United States Information Agency, 1993.

Reed, Jim. A Room with a View. Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, 1992

Nieto, Margarita. L.A. L.A. The Creation of a City Through Visual Images, U.L.A.L.A., Los Ángeles, CA., 1989. (U.L.A.L.A. stands for United Latino Artists of LA, go figure. This exhibit included work by Carlos Almaraz, Elsa Flores, Eloy Tórrez, Guillermo Bert and others)
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Partial List of Exhibits on Chicana/Chicano Art

2004-2006
"Arte Caliente: Selections from the Joe A. Diaz Collection," The South Texas Institute for the Arts, May 7-August 22, 2004; National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, September 17-February 26, 2006. Future dates to be announced.

2001
"Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge," San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, Traveling Exhibition.

Inspired and directed by Cheech Marin’s vision to highlight expressions of Chicano culture, “CHICANO” presents the many voices of today’s Chicanos via a traditional art exhibit

“Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge” and a multi-media exhibit “Chicano Now: American Expressions.” http://www.chicano-art-life.com/index.html

Read more on the exhibit: http://arttech.about.com/library/weekly/aa_041602_chicano_exhibit.htm
http://www.sa-museum.org/exhibitions/cowden/-5.html

"Arte Latino Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,"
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, Traveling Exhibition

2000
"The Contemporary Latino Masters," Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Made in California, 1900-2000", Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles
"East of the River", Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
"C.O.L.A. 2000", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

1999
"El Norte," Joslyn Fine Arts Gallery, Torrance, CA

1996
"Kaleidoscope: American Art at the End of the Century," National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
"Distant Relations-A Dialogue Between Chicano, Irish and Mexican Artists," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA. Distant Relations-A Dialogue Between Chicano, Irish and Mexican Artists, Camden Arts Centre, London, England.
"Intersecting Identities/Señas de identidad," USC Fisher Gallery, Los Ángeles, CA. Funded (in part) by Casa de América, Madrid. (Frank Romero, Salomón, Alfredo de Batuc, among others.) Catalogue available online through USC

1995
"Across the Street," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, and "Across the Street," Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Ángeles, CA and Corpus Christi, Anchorage and other stops. [Consisted of nothing but silk screen prints from Self Help Graphics]
"Xicano Progeny," The Mexican Museum, San Fransisco, CA.

1994
"Los Angees / Berlin," Gallerie M., Berlin Germany
"The Mystical in Art: Chicano Latino Painting"
"Xicano Ricorso: A Thirty Year Retrospective from Aztlan," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

1993
"Laughing Matters," Curated by Tyler Stallings. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Ángeles, CA
"Pasión por Frida," Mexican Cultural Institute, Los Ángeles, CA (originated at the Museo Estudio Diego Rivera en México, D.F.)

1991
"California Citiscapes," San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
"Motion as Metaphor: The Automobile in Art," Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA
"Contemporary Visions of the Virgin of Guadalupe," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA

1990-91
"Adelante Con Safos," Galería Sin Fronteras, Austin TX
"Post Chicano Generation in Art: Breaking Boundaries," Mars Artspace, Phoenix, AZ.

1990
"Chicano Art/Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985," 1992 Wight Art Gallery, UCLA , traveling to the Denver Museum, The Albuquerque Museum, The National Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Tucson Museum
"Le Demon Des Anges," Traveling Exhibition, Espace Lyon Art Contemporary (E.L.A.C.), Lyon, France.
"Selections from Self- Help Graphics," Barnsdall Art Park, Junior Art Center, Los Angeles, CA. "Estampa Chicana, La Locura Cura," Galeria El Juglar, Mexico City, Mexico.
"Chican- Arte," Escuela Nacional de Arted Plasticas (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.

1990
"Aquí y Allá," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA & Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, México


1989
"Visions: An exhibit of Mexican and Chicano Art," Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
"Le Demon Des Anges," Traveling Exhibition, The Contemporary Art Museum, Center de Arte de Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
"Le Demon Des Anges," Traveling Exhibition, The Center for Cultural Development (CRDC), Nantes France.
"V Festival Internacional de la Raza," Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Baja.
"Hispanic Art on Paper," Los Ángeles County Museum of Art, Los Ángeles, CA

1989
"Le Demon des Anges," Hallu du CRDC Nantes, France; Barcelona, Spain; Lund, Sweden; Brussels, Belgium

1987-89
"Hispanic Art in the United States," Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1987
"Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions," Amerika Haus, West Berlin, Germany, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
"Chicano Expressions, Traveling Exhibition," Intar Gallery, New York, NY.; San Fransisco, CA.; Washington DC.; San Antonio, TX.; Los Angeles, CA.

1986
"Crossing borders/ Chicano artists," San Jose Museum of Art, CA
"JUNTOS 1986," El Paso, Texas.

1985
"Spectrum of Los Angeles: Neue Künst aus California," Hartje Gallery, Frankfurt, West Germany and Tour
"Asco 85," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.), Los Angeles, CA.
"Made in Aztlan," Centro Cultural de La Raza, San Diego, CA.
"JUNTOS 1985," Lincoln Cultural Arts Center, El Paso, Texas.

1984
"Asco '84," Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1982
"Asco '82," Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
"Magical Mystery Tour," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA

1982
"Califas: Works on Paper," Fondo del Sol/Spanish American Media Center, Washington DC

1981
"Murals of Aztlán," Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA and Tour

1977-78
"Ancient Roots/New Visions," Tucson , AZ, Museum Show and Tour

1978
"The Aesthetics of Graffiti," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1975
"Chicanarte," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Tour
'' Chicanismo en El Arte,'' Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1974
"Los Four," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
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