NELAart News Arts and Culture in the Northeast of Los Angeles Section b Section B
Volume 3 No.6
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September 2015
SOMEWHERE OVER EL ARCO IRIS
MAJOR EXHIBIT OF CHICANO ART COMES TO MOLAA
The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), founded in 1996 in Long Beach, has introduced U.S. audiences to some of the most vibrant art from Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. It did not, however, until very recently, show any Chicano Art. When Stuart Ashman came on board as President and CEO in 2011, prominent collectors of Chicano art, including Cheech Marin and Armando Duran, set out to educate the museum about artificial distinctions. Things have changed in Long Beach. "Miradas," the museum's current show, includes powerful Carlos Almaraz, Yellow Morning, 1986, oil on canvas, 72 x 108 works by the likes of Judithe HernĂĄn- inches. Courtesy of the Carlos Almaraz Estate Collection and the AltaMed Art Collection, AArC.14794 dez and Carlos Almaraz. Now MOLAA is about to embark on its first show comprised completely of Southern California Chicano work with "Somewhere Over El Arco Iris." Curator Julian Bermudez has not attempted to undertake a survey show of so vast a topic. Rather, the show is two-pronged. First, it focuses on the subject matter of landscapes--still a broad topic as the works presented fill a space of 40 years and range from the traditional to the avant garde. Artists featured include Carlos Almaraz, Yolanda Gonzalez, Gronk, Wayne Alaniz Healy and David Botello, Ramses Noriega, Frank Romero, Jamex and Einar De La Torre, John Valadez, Patssi Valdez, Shizu Saldamando, Roberto Gutierrez, and Jose Ramirez . Many of these Wayne Alaniz Healy and David Botello, La Fiesta/Broadway, 1993, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 54 inches. Courtesy of the Artists
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