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Alvaro Marquez
Salinas Valley V.2 (letterpress editon)

2020

About the Item

Image size: 18 x 12 inches Sheet size: 15x22 inches Edition size: 140 Depicts farm workers harvesting lettuce in the artist's hometown of Salinas, CA. Printed at the historic Aardvark Letterpress in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles. Comes with the official studio “chop” along side that of Aardvark chopmark. Dark brown ink on cream-colored 100% archival cotton-rag paper. Letterpress variation print of a linocut from the “Al Norte y P’atras/North and Back” series. 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 Coast. Coming from three generations of migrant farm workers, his upbringing in this community informs his work as an artist, researcher, and advocate.
  • Creator:
    Alvaro Marquez (American)
  • Creation Year:
    2020
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Palm Springs, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU308214481712
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