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Description:
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement is the first comprehensive consideration of Chicano art in almost two decades and the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented. The exhibition explores the experimental tendencies within current Chicano art, which is oriented less toward painting and polemical assertion and more toward conceptual art, performance, film, photography, and media-based art, as well as “stealthy” artistic interventions in urban spaces. An exhibition catalog by co-curators Rita Gonzalez, Howard N. Fox, and Chon A. Noriega is available from the University of California Press. It contains three essays that explore the topic in depth as well as more than two hundred color illustrations, twenty-five individual artist portfolios, and a wryly subversive chronology of significant moments in Chicano cultural history. The exhibition, which opened at LACMA on September 2008, will travel in the United States and Mexico until June 2010.
Exhibition Dates:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), April 6 – September 1, 2008
Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, October 16, 2008 – January 11, 2009
Museo Alameda, San Antonio, March 12 – June 14, 2009
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, July 25 – October 4, 2009
Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara, November 6, 2009 – January 31, 2010
El Museo del Barrio & Americas Society, New York, March 21 – June 6, 2010 |
Media Coverage:
'Phantom Sightings' about 'phantom (Chicano) culture'
mySA, March 22, 2009 (view PDF)
Reviews: Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement
X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Winter 2008 (view PDF)
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement
artreview.com, July 11, 2008 (view PDF)
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement
Rachel's Art Journal, June 3, 2008 (view PDF)
Phantom Sightings
Coagula Art Journal, April 19, 2008
'Phantom Sightings' Explores Social Injustice Through the Avant-Garde
Daily Trojan Online, April 17, 2008 (PDF version)
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles
artdaily.org, April 3, 2008 (PDF version) |
