This is the children's art space. Here they can draw, take classes, look at the art and exhibit their work.
Title: Pancho Trinity I, II, III
Artist: Judith F. Baca
Date: 1946
Material: Acrylic Paint, mixed media, urethane on styrofoam
Size: Size: 26 x 18 x 20 in.
Object Number:
Judith Baca
Los Angeles, 1946
Material: Acrylic Paint, mixed media, urethane on styrofoam
Size: H 26 x W 18 x D 20 inches each
Judy Baca’s Pancho Trinity infuses kitsch imagery of the “sleeping Mexican” and converts it into the medium for her narrative illustrations that details the challenges, suffering and sacrifice that immigrants experience. In addition, the illustrations also explain life in the United States, the longing for family, land and spirit. The colors are bright with a variety of scale and imagery reminiscent of the great muralists, modern and at the same time ancient.
Title: Raspados Mojados
Artist: Judith F. Baca
Date: 1976
Material: Mixed media on a street vendor cart
Object Number:
Judith Baca
Los Angeles, 1994
103 x 48 x 22″
Mixed media on a street vendor cart
Utilizing the street vendor cart as a medium, the work addresses current immigration issues and the misrepresentation of people of Mexican descent living in the United States. This work was featured in the “UrbanRevision: Current Project for the Public Realm” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, 1994.
Title: Smile Now, Cry Later
Artist: Dario Canul, Cosijoesa Cernas
Date: 2017
Material: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 177 x 469.5 inches
Object Number:
Tlacolulokos (Dario Canul and Cosijoesa Cernas)
Material: Acrylic on Canvas, 177 x 469.5 inches
This was part of the project “Visualizing Language” organized by the Los Angeles Public Library. The painting explores the relationship between Los Angeles and the Zapotec/Oaxacan communities that live in that area. It represents and binational culture that transcended borders and is instead fluid, supported by networks of a shared experience. The figures pop forward from the rust and ochre geometric background pattern. The figures are strong, with a prideful gaze, ancient and modern at the same time. The jarring juxtaposition of the indigenoush embroidery, hair style and jewelry against ornate tattoos and baseball caps with Old English Calligraphy.
Title: Disease Thrower #10, 2020
Artist: Guadalupe Maravilla
Date: 2020
Size: 96 x 57 x 63 in
(243 x 144.8 x 160 cm)
Materials: Mixed Media
Object number: 703.2019
Artist: Guadalupe Maravilla
Date: 2020
Size: 96 × 57 × 63 in
243.8 × 144.8 × 160 cm
Materials: Mixed Media
Object label: An undocumented migrant child from a war-torn El Salvador who arrived in the United States in the 1980s, Maravilla's work is a mix of sculpture, performance, and sketching. His paintings use a variety of mystic materials, and nearly all incorporate sound and spirituality.
