35% of US Latinos Voted for Trump (2017) | | UPCOMING AND ONGOING EXHIBITIONS | Make 'Em All Mexican - The Brown Dot Project - Datos Sagrados | A Universal History of Infamy: Those of This America LACMA Charles White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA EXHIBITION DATES: December 4, 2017 – October 8, 2018 El Dia de Los Muertos: Past, Present, and Future Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA EXHIBITION DATES: September 17, 2017 - February 24, 2018 Imagen Angeleno Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) EXHIBITION DATES: November 11, 2017 - January 14, 2018 Ghetto Gloss, The Chicana Avant-Garde, 1980-2010 Bermudez Projects, Cypress Park, CA EXHIBITION DATES: November 11 - December 30, 2017 One Year: The Art of Politics in LA, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA EXHIBITION DATES: November 18, 2017 - January 12, 2018 LA/Landscapes: Real and Imagined Studio Channel Islands, Channel Islands, CA EXHIBITION DATES: September 16—November 18, 2017 Descendants and Dissonance: Cultural Iconography in Contemporary LA Salt Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA EXHIBITION DATES: September 18 – October 31 Deconstructing Liberty: A Destiny Manifested, 8 countries / 14 artists Muzeo Museum & Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA EXHIBITION DATES: August 5 – October 15 Linda Vallejo: Keepin' It Brown bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, EXHIBITION DATES: September 5 - October 8 | Questions about Latino Data | Los Angeles 48.3% Latino | The Brown Dot Project an elegant solution to complex questions about Latino data and identity Los Angeles 48.3% Latino, 2017 architectural gridded vellum, archival marker 24 x 24 inches 48,400 squares x 48.3% = 23,377 brown dots | MEAM: Justice, 2017 | Deconstructing Liberty presents a forthright, proactive perspective with a goal to, “question ideas traditionally associated with American liberty such as patriotism, community, citizenship, the pursuit of happiness, freedom, equal rights, and activism, as they resonate in forms of collective identity across the globe,” explains curator Marisa Caichiolo. As a further nod to the elusive pursuit of liberty by Latinos living in the U.S., work by Los Angeles artist Linda Vallejo's "Justice," a brown-skinned statue of liberty, is a voluptuous model, minus the crown, blindfolded, holding a spear in one hand and unbalanced scales in the other. Justice represents an in-your-face statement about the unfair condition many Latinos face in the U.S., whether they are long-time citizens or not. "Deconstructing Liberty: A Destiny Manifested" ART AND CAKE, by Liz Goldner | 52% of US Latinos Experience Discrimination | Los Angeles critic and curator Shana Nys Dambrot writes, "'Datos Sagrados powerfully displays a universal, cyclical, divine kind of math, familiar to students of da Vinci, Michelangelo, crop circles, the Fibonacci Sequence, the Golden Mean, architectural schematics, Eastern mandalas; evoking styles of the Maya, Aztec, Native American, Islamic, Northern European, Asian, and Ottoman arts. Sacred geometry is the structure of the universe; beauty is a virtue before God. “It could not be more simple,” Vallejo says, 'but now we are having a conversation about everything'." | RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS | Artillery "Pick of the Week" | Artillery Magazine "Pick of the Week" October 2017 by Annabel Osberg "In Vallejo's “Brown Dot Project” dark spots, whose quantities correspond to different Latino population and workforce demographics, are clearly disposed towards emphasizing Latinos’ societal contributions." | Linda Vallejo "Brown Washing" | The Argonaut - "Brown Washing" Vallejo turns the tables on cultural appropriation for The Getty’s tribute to Latin American influence on LA October 2017 by Christina Campodonico "Vallejo hopes that her work does not just offer insights into the Latinx experience, but also invites viewers to ask questions, explore and build bridges between cultures." | PST LA/LA SPECIAL PROJECTS | Vallejo at Self Help Graphics circa 1980 | | SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART El Dia de Los Muertos: Past, Present, and Future Linda Vallejo and Betty Ann Brown co-curated this seminal Day of the Dead exhibition. This important offering highlights Self Help Graphics' position as the first US cultural institution to present the Day of the Dead in the late 1970’s. | EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS, & SPECIAL PROJECTS | 2017 Exhibitions A Universal History of Infamy: Those of This America, Getty PST LA/LA Initative, LACMA Charles White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA El Dia de Los Muertos: Past, Present, and Future, Getty PST LA/LA Initative, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA Imagen Angeleno, Getty PST LA/LA Initative, Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA Ghetto Gloss, The Chicana Avant-Garde 1980-2010, Getty PST LA/LA Initative, Projects, Cypress Park, CA One Year: The Art of Politics in LA, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA LA/Landscapes: Real and Imagined, Getty PST LA/LA Initative, Studio Channel Islands, Channel Islands, CA Descendants and Dissonance: Cultural Iconography in Contemporary LA, Getty PST LA/LA Initative, Salt Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Deconstructing Liberty: A Destiny Manifested, 8 countries / 14 artists, Getty PST LA/LA Initative, Muzeo Museum & Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA Linda Vallejo: Keepin' It Brown, Getty PST LA/LA Initative, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Weaving Cultures, ChimMaya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Chapters: Book Arts of Southern California, The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), Los Angeles, CA Power of the Page, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA Animating the Archives: The Woman’s Building, Avenue 50 Studio & Metabolic Studios, Los Angeles, CA Mujeres de Maiz: 20 Years of Artivism and Herstory en Los Angeles, anniversary retrospective exhibition, La Plaza de Arte y Cultura, Los Angeles CA Homage to Mango Street, Strohl Art Center/Gallo Family Gallery, Chautauqua, NY 6th Chicana/o Biennial, MACLA / Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americano, San Jose, CA Radical Home Salt Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA, curated by Luisa Fernanda With Liberty and Justice for Some Walter Maciel Gallery, Culver City, CA, San Francisco Commission Art Galleries, SF Embedded Messages, Debating the Dream: Truth, Justice, and the American Way, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL Los Four Meets Los 40, curated by Abel Alejandre, Gregorio Escalante Gallery, La Bodega Gallery, and Zack de la Rocha Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Fault Line, Brewery ArtWalk, Los Angeles, CA Publications Inside Self Help Graphics Dia De Los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy, Past Present & Future, Fabrik Magazine, Eva Recinos, Los Angeles, CA, November 2017 "Pick of the Week", Artillery Magazine, Annabel Osberg, Los Angeles, October 2017 Linda Vallejo's Brown Washing, The Argonaut, by Christina Campodonico, Santa Moncia, CA, October 2017 Deconstructing Liberty: A Destiny Manifested, ART AND CAKE, Liz Goldner, September 2017 Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties, New York University Press 2017, Karen Mary Davalos Fifteen Female Artists Who Shaped the L.A. Artscene, Eva Recinos, LA Weekly, April 2017 Special Projects Self Help Graphics: El Dia de Los Muertos: Past, Present, and Future, exhibition and education program, co-curated by Linda Vallejo and Betty Brown, Getty Foundation Initiative PST LA/LA, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA | |