Chicano Visions - Art Exhibit
August 3rd, 2006
On Saturday, July 22nd, I went to see the Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge exhibition at the new de Young museum. It was opening day so there was entertainment, live music, speakers, book signing by artists, and the entrance was free. Cheech Marin was suppose make an appearance, but he didn’t make it due to an illness. The exhibition has been on tour for a few years and it is finally somewhere close where I could go see it. The exhibition actually is comprise of these three distinct exhibitions:
- Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge as Collected by Cheech Marin
- Chicano Now: American Expressions
- Chicano Encounters: Local Places and Global Communities
I bought the Chicano Visions book and had it signed by seven artists whose work is on display. The artists at the book signing were Ester Hernandez, Margaret Garcia, Carmen Lomas Garza,Chaz Bojorquez, John Valadez, Leo Limon, and Gaspar Enriquez. What impressed me most about a lot of the paintings were their size. The majority of the paintings are really big. I had seen pictures of some of the paintings on the web, but I had no clue as to their actual size until I saw them in person.