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September 2019
Images of The Divine in Everyday Mexico: Ex-Votos and Retablos from The Permanent Collection
Selected from the museum’s permanent collection, this group of votive paintings from Mexico spans the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Known as ex-votos (meaning “from a vow” in Latin) or retablos (meaning “behind the altar” in Latin), these small paintings on tin are religious offerings venerating the divine or expressing gratitude for an answered prayer. These are public and private expressions of faith meant to evidence divine intervention within daily life. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 12:00 noon –…
Form and Function in the Ancient Americas
Vincent Price Art Museum’s permanent collection includes artworks from ancient civilizations in Central and South America, with a concentration of art from West Mexico and Peru. Form and Function in the Ancient Americas highlight the wide range of cultures represented in our pre-Columbian collection. Cultures from the Nayarit-Jalisco-Colima region of West Mexico (2000 – 1000 BCE) to the Chimú of Peru (900-1500 CE) are featured. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m., Thursdays, 12:00 noon –…
Four Centuries of Pueblo Pottery
Featuring more than 100 pieces of rare ceramics from the Autry’s Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, this exhibition traces the dramatic changes that transformed the Pueblo pottery tradition in the era following sixteenth-century Spanish colonization to the present. Organized by Pueblo language groups, the show includes pieces by such well-known potters as Maria and Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Nampeyo (Hopi) and her descendants, Juan Cruz Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo) and Tonita Peña Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Gladys…
Para Todos Los Niños – Fighting Segregation in California
Many people know of desegregation as it happened in the American South, but this exhibition shares the story of the landmark struggles of Latino families in Southern California almost ten years before Brown v. Board of Education. Para Todos Los Niños – Fighting Segregation in California, shows the history of segregation and discrimination in California that targeted all non-White citizens, in housing, jobs, and schools. Ongoing Exhibition Adults – $15.50, Seniors – $13.50, Children – $12.50, Children under five, Military…
Memories of Diaspora: Immigration Narratives of Los Angeles
Memories of Diaspora: Immigration Narratives of Los Angeles celebrates the intensely personal struggles, hopes, and dreams that comprise the immigrant experience. The exhibition features work by Art Division students who are first-generation Angelenos with work by Art Division faculty and artists from Oaxaca, Mexico, whose art depicts family memories of journeying North to cross the border. The exhibit is curated by Art Division Executive Director Dan McCleary, Director of Painting and Drawing Luis Serrano and Assistant to the Director, Dagmar…
Memento: A Retrospective Exhibition by Tomás Ochoa
Antología Memento (Memento Anthology) presents sixteen large panels that depict Colombia’s landscape, architecture, and peoples. Ochoa rewrites Latin American history by highlighting the events that have literally shaped the jungles and buildings of the country. The works become an illustrated and updated timeline that joins Colombia’s present reality with its hidden past. Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Adults – $10, Seniors & Students – $7, Members and Children…
Dimensions of Form: Tamayo and Mixografia
The exhibit addresses the artistic legacy of modern master Rufino Tamayo (1890-1991). Fifty prints on loan from Mixografia in Los Angeles depicting silhouetted figures, celestial bodies and the feathered serpent-god Quetzalcoatl will illustrate the “fourth great one’s” last artistic expedition to discover a uniquely Mexican style in form. Tuesdays – Sundays, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Adults $15, Seniors and Students $12, Members and Children under 12 Free, Free Admission for Santa Ana residents on Sundays
Inland Ink – Celebrating Masters of Printmaking Working in Inland Southern California
Connected by their mastery of putting ink to paper and a shared geography, Denise Kraemer, Pavel Acevedo, Tim Musso, Froukje Schaffsma-Smith, Chick Curtis, and C. Matthew Luther explore a broad variety of traditional, as well as contemporary, printmaking techniques from woodcut to digital prints. Contemporary printmaking is flourishing in Inland Southern California, with artists exploring new digital approaches, renewing time-honored techniques, and printing on and with alternative materials and tools. New technologies have been swiftly integrated by some printmakers while…
RAW: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism
RAW features nine contemporary artists working with a range of commodities to reflect upon the history of colonialism, slavery, and globalization. Because many artists in the exhibition view the commodities they utilize as a form of historical record, their deliberate use aims to acknowledge the layers of repressed histories encapsulated within these materials. Works in the exhibition will include sculptural pieces and installations created from cotton, sugar, copper, salt, clay, water, and other materials. Tuesdays – Fridays 11:00 a.m.…
October 2019
Lost in The Andes
Armando Lerma begins with scavenged, discarded signs, their familiar corporate logos long faded. He creates art that reflects his Mexican American heritage and borderland upbringing with an aesthetic that is inherently Californian. Found objects and pop culture imagery are tightly woven together, infusing disparate mythologies and a multitude of cultural references into his artistic practice. Living and working in the Southern California desert town of Coachella, Lerma is a master of rasquachismo. The opening reception is Thursday, October 3, 6…