Valverde Exhibition Announced

The late Los Angeles-based photographer and artist Ricardo Valverde (1946-1998) is featured in a career retrospective at the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), May 17- July 26, 2014. The exhibition, Ricardo Valverde: Experimental Sights, 1971-1996, is guest-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and highlights more than one hundred artworks spanning a twenty-five-year period of production. The opening reception will take place Saturday, May 17, 4:00-6:00 p.m., and is free to all.
 
VPAM’s exhibition is the first survey of Valverde’s extensive body of work, and it is undertaken in partnership with the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC), which recently published Ricardo Valverde, a new monograph by Ramón García in the award-winning A Ver: Revisioning Art History series. Curator Fajardo-Hill, formerly chief curator at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA, is a CSRC visiting scholar.
 
Two public programs related to the exhibition will take place at VPAM:
 

Saturday, June 14, 2 to 4 p.m.
Panel discussion
Join CSRC director Chon A. Noriega in conversation with the exhibition’s curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, author Ramón García, and artist Rubén Ortiz Torres.

Saturday, June 21, 2 p.m.
Curator’s walk-through
Join a walk-through of the exhibition led by guest curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.

The full release is attached.