MARK VALLEN - ¡ADELANTE! Museum Exhibit

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From: Art for a Change [mailto:vallen@art-for-a-change.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 4:36 PM
Subject: MARK VALLEN - ¡ADELANTE! Museum Exhibit

 

Mark Vallen's ART FOR A CHANGE Newsletter - Aug. 2011 www.art-for-a-change.com/blog   IN THIS UPDATE 1) - ¡ADELANTE! Mexican American Artists: 1960s and Beyond - Vallen exhibits two new oil paintings in an important museum survey of Chicano art. ___________________________________________     ¡ADELANTE! Mexican American Artists: 1960s and Beyond Forest Lawn Museum - Glendale, California. September 9, 2011 - January 1, 2012. Pictured above: "La Causa" (The Cause). Vallen. Oil on canvas. 2011. Mark Vallen will display two original oil paintings at ¡ADELANTE! Mexican American Artists: 1960s and Beyond, the latest museum exhibition to explore the world of Chicano art. The large scale canvases, La Causa (The Cause) and Libros No Bombas (Books Not Bombs) were created especially for the museum exhibit, where they will be presented to the public for the very first time. Read more about Vallen's La Causa painting on the artist's web log. Organized by the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, California, the exhibit runs from September 9, 2011 through January 1, 2012, and offers the paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and photographs of some forty artists. Included are artworks from "veteranos" of the 1960s Chicano Arts Movement, as well as from a whole new generation of artists involved in creating Chicanarte (Chicano art). Those influential artists participating in the exhibit include the likes of Judith F. Baca; David Rivas Botello; Barbara Carrasco; Margaret García; Ignacio Gomez; Wayne Healy; Leo Limón; Frank Romero; Patssi Valdez, and a host of others. A few of the works on view are from the Cheech Marin Collection, one of the most important private collections of Chicano art in the United States. Adelante is Spanish for "advance" or "forward", the perfect title for an exhibit that surveys Chicano art as it moves into the second decade of the 21st century. The Forest Lawn Museum is located at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 1712 South Glendale Avenue, Glendale, California. 91205. The museum is open every day except Monday, from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission and parking is free. Phone: 1-800-204-3131. Learn more about ¡ADELANTE! at the museum's website.   ________________________________________ Vallen will also show works in these upcoming museum exhibits: Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: Art in the pursuit of Social Change. Sept. 10 to Dec.11, 2011 University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach. An exhibition of historic posters and flyers published by the now defunct Los Angeles print shop, Peace Press. The exhibit is part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 - 1980, the largest collaborative art project in Southern California history. Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981. Oct. 1, 2011 to Feb. 13, 2012 Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. A comprehensive survey that examines the fertile and diverse output of California artists during an extraordinary period of American history. This exhibit is also part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time project.   ________________________________________ Subscribe to the "Art For A Change" web log by way of RSS Feed: http://art-for-a-change.com/blog/feed If you wish to be added or removed from this mailing list - send an e-mail request   www.art-for-a-change.com/blog