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Monday, November 23, 2020

Lala Alcaraz piece in new SAAM exhibit

by Bruce Guthrie 

There's a new Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit -- in the building with the National Portrait Gallery - that opened on Friday.

Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
November 20, 2020 – August 8, 2021
In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period's social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.

I did my normal obsessive coverage of it when I went in on Friday. 


One of the pieces that's part of it is by Lalo Alcaraz.  It's a digital image, not an original piece of art, so it's shown on a screen rotating with other pieces.  Does anyone know if Lalo works mostly digitally?  The piece is from 2018 and was in response to the mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.




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Bruce Guthrie
Photo obsessive
http://www.bguthriephotos.com


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