October 19 through December 30, 2011
As part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, 89.3 KPCC’s AirTalk hosted a conversation with Chicano artists looking back at this critical period in art history when Chicano artists were trying to define and express themselves even as the LA art scene as a whole was re-defining the boundaries of contemporary artistic expression. The discussion included younger artists whose creative expression is informed by those who preceded them, but whose work expands beyond the preoccupations of the cultural trailblazers. In addition, a small exhibit presented a fraction of the diverse range of media and styles seen in Chicano art. Artists such as Frank Romero, Gronk and Patssi Valdez represented the vanguard of their generation, while others including Enrique Castrejon, David Flury and Sonia Romero represented a new generation of contemporary Chicano/Latino artists in Southern California and the United States.