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Total exhibition research support: $335,000 (2013 and 2014); exhibition and publication support: $490,000 (2016) LACMA
Home—So Different, So Appealing Home—So Different, So Appealing, organized by the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA, features U.S. Latino and Latin American artists from the late 1950s to the present who have used the idea of "home" as a powerful lens through which to view the profound socioeconomic and political transformations in the hemisphere. Spanning seven decades and covering art styles from Pop Art and Conceptualism to “anarchitecture” and “autoconstrucción,” the artists featured in this show explore one of the most basic social concepts by which individuals, families, nations, and regions understand themselves in relation to others. In the process, their work also offers an alternative narrative of postwar and contemporary art. The show will include works by internationally known figures such as Daniel Joseph Martinez, Gordon Matta-Clark, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Guillermo Kuitca, and Doris Salcedo, as well as younger emerging artists such as Carmen Argote and Camilo Ontiveros. Including a wide range of media that often incorporate material from actual homes, the exhibition also features several large-scale installations and an outdoor sculpture. This project is done in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where the exhibit will be on view November 2017-January 2018. 
Exhibition research support: $210,000 (2013); Implementation and publication support: $325,000 (2015) Carmen Argote, 720 Sq. Ft. Household Mutations, Part B, 2010, Carpet, paint, and Velcro (carpet from the artist's childhood home). Installation view at g727. Photo credit: Carmen Argote. Laguna Art Museum Mexico/LA: History into Art, 1820–1930 Mexico/LA: History into Art, 1820–1930 explores how Mexico became California. Following the U.S.-Mexican War (1846–1848), lands that had belonged for centuries to New Spain, and later Mexico, were transformed into the 31st state of the U.S. The visual arts played a strong role in this transformation, creating distinct pictorial motifs and symbols that helped define the new California while establishing dialogues and intersections with the land’s previous identity as Mexico. Juxtaposing paintings with popular posters, prints, and some of the earliest movies made in Los Angeles, the exhibition reveals how this image of California spread worldwide. Objects range from picturesque landscapes of Alta California and still life paintings featuring fruits, flowers, and other plants that celebrated the state's agricultural growth, to works by early modernists such as the Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Mexico/LA: History into Art, 1820–1930 demonstrates how a unique amalgam of Mexican and Anglo visual traditions created a profile for California distinct from any other U.S. state. 
Exhibition research support: $92,000 (2013); Implementation and publication support: $230,000 (2015) Download 1.91 Mb. Share with your friends:
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