Diane Gamboa

Little Gold Man

1990

Portrait of Gene Autry, by Frank Romero This print was featured in “Dreamland”, the first solo exhibition of a Chicano artist at MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art). This is the first time the entire museum has been dedicated to a single artist. Throughout his 40 year career as an artist, Frank Romero has been a dedicated member of the Los Angeles arts community. As a member of the 1970s Chicano art collective, Los Four...

11 layer-screen print on archival 100% cotton rag paper. Measures 15x22 inches. Based on original linocut from the Al Norte y P’atras/North and Back series. Depicts farm workers in my hometown of Salinas, California. Álvaro D. Márquez is a visual artist and part-time professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Cal State LA. Much of Marquez's work explores art as social inquiry, looking at the history of displacement in the Americas, starting with Indigenous dispossession after European conquest, following through to current issues around gentrification and homelessness. Marquez was born into the working-class migrant community of East Salinas, in California’s Central...

Signed and titled by the artist from the edition of 69. This print feature a small a small Jewish Shul in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles where Romero grew up, Romero was featured in the first solo exhibition of a Chicano artist at MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art). This is the first time the entire museum has been dedicated to a single artist. Romero has exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan. His work is featured in many permanent collections, including the National Museum of Art in Washington D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museum in Oxnard, CA. Throughout his 40 year career as an artist, Frank Romero has been a dedicated member of the Los Angeles arts community. As a member of the 1970s Chicano art collective, Los Four, Romero and fellow artists Carlos Almaraz, Beto de la Rocha...

Medium: Serigraph Image Size: 12 x 12 inches Edition size: 12 Year” 2001 Skulls and skeletons are a common theme in Chicano and Mexican art, especially in relation to the Day of the Dead celebrations. Throughout his 40 year career as an artist, Frank Romero has been a dedicated member of the Los Angeles arts community. As a member of the 1970s Chicano art collective, Los Four, Romero and fellow artists Carlos Almaraz, Beto de la Rocha...