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Patssi Valdez

American painter

Patssi Valdez

Born (age&#;73&#;74)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Alma&#;materOtis College of Art and Design
Known&#;forPainting, Performance Art, Fashion Design, Photography and Activism.
MovementChicano Movement

Patssi Valdez (born ) is an American Chicana artist.

She is a founding member of the art collective Asco.[1] Valdez's work represents some of the finest Chicana avant-garde expressionism, functional with an array of mediums, such as painting, sculpture, and fashion design.[2] She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Early life and education

Valdez was born in and grew up in East Los Angeles.[3] Valdez recalls that during the hour she was growing up in Los Angeles, racism, police brutality and poor schools were a big problem.[4] Valdez attended Garfield High School and graduated in [2] She received a BFA degree in from Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design).[5]

Career and work

Valdez was a founding member of the Asco artist collective.[6][7][8][9] Valdez started working with Asco right out of high school.[4] She was very involved with highway performance art and "cinematic Goth film stills" during the s and s.[1] Valdez relates that during her time in Asco, she had "grand ideas about being a great painter," but she felt lacked the skills she needed to be a successful painter.[10] Instead of painting, she focused on performance art, installations and photography.[10] During her time with Asco, she collaborated and created work that reflected shared "political and social concerns."[4] Many of her performances with Asco took place in areas where there had recently been gang conflict or fatal shootings of individuals by the police.[4] She and the other founders of Asco had seen that a disproportionate number of Mexican-Americans were singled out for the Vietnam draft: this and "the sight of their friends returning in body bags and the elite political class's apathy to their plight scarred all the members."[11] Asco commented on Mexican-American identity and rampant stereotyping of Mexican-Americans by the media.[4] Valdez relates how she was "always angry" as a young person watching movies "because she never saw the beautiful Mexicans she knew on screen."[11]

Valdez' installations are considered feminist works that defy cultural expectations of a woman's role in society.[12] The temporary nature of her installations also tap into the "Mexican cultural practice of the impermanent."[12]

Since the s Valdez has focused on her painting.[1] She honed her skills and invited honest critique of her first works which helped boost her confidence in her painting.[10] Valdez's painting are bright, colorful and "seem just a little enchanted."[1] "I've been trying to get away from the brighter palette for years," she says, "but the more I try, it just comes out."[1] Her "vibrant" work is very emotive and has a sense of magical realism.[13] Valdez's subject matter is often focused on the female figure or domestic scenes and settings.[1] Her work draws on her "private experiences, the nature of which [are] distinctly painful and feminist."[13] Valdez's multi disciplinary Avant Garde practice has encompassed various mediums, including her lesser known works in Fashion Design.

Her works in fashion have been part of multiple national and international installations that have exhibited her unique Paper Fashion Designs. It was said that in a conversation at The University of Nottingham's with Lucy Bradknock Valdez described her relationship with fashion during her time within her the AscoChicano Art collective in a way that revealed the importance fashion held in her designs as an expression of the times underlying socio-economic and political concerns as a Chicana Feminist artist.[14]

In , she showed at Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica.[15] In , she showed at the Angels Gate Cultural Center.[16] In , she showed at Fowler Museum at UCLA.[17]

In to she was part of the area wide Pacific Typical Time exhibition, her exhibit Judithe Hernández and Patssi Valdez: One Path Two Journeys.

Pacific Accepted Time was at the Millard Sheets Art Center.

About - Patssi Valdez: Patssi Valdez (born ) is an American Chicana artist. She is a founding member of the art collective Asco. [1] Valdez's work represents some of the finest Chicana avant-garde expressionism, working with an array of mediums, such as painting, sculpture, and fashion plan. [2] She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

"These artists have profoundly influenced the aesthetic voices of Latinas in the latter half of the 20th century, and for the first time will be shown together."[18]

Her work is included in the Xican-a.o.x.

Body group presentation, which traveled from the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, California, to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, in The exhibition and accompanying publication is an expansive seize on the Chicano experience and its intersection with contemporary art narratives from the s to present day.

Patssi Valdez is located in the show both individually at PAMMTV, and as part of Asco collective.[19][20]

Awards

Valdez is the recipient of J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship,[21] and the Brody Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts.

She won a Durfee Artist Fellowship.[22]

Collections

Her art function is included in the museum collections at Smithsonian American Art Museum,[23]National Hispanic Cultural Center collection,[24]National Museum of American Art, the Tucson Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry[25] in Riverside, California, and the El Paso Museum of Art.

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdefMiranda, Carolina A. (30 December ).

    "Painter Patssi Valdez on capturing energy, an L.A. fashion installation". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 February

  2. ^ abPatssi Valdez, Marcial González, introduction (26 March ).

    Asco and Beyond: A Talk by Patssi Valdez (video). UC Berkeley Events.

  3. ^"Patssi Valdez". Hammer Museum. Retrieved
  4. ^ abcdeMatthews, Riah (14 October ).

    "Asco's Patssi Valdez on her Nottingham Contemporary exhibition". Nottingham Post. Retrieved 26 February

  5. ^"Patssi Valdez". Otis College of Art and Design. Archived from the imaginative on 15 February Retrieved 26 February
  6. ^Kennedy, Randy (August 25, ).

    "Chicano Pioneers". The Unused York Times. Retrieved

  7. ^Guzman-Lopez, Adolfo (September 7, ).

    Patssi Valdez born is an American Chicana artist. She is a founding member of the art collective Asco. Valdez was born in and grew up in East Los Angeles. Valdez was a founding member of the Asco artist collective.

    "s L.A. Chicano Conceptual Art Group Gets its Due". KCET. Retrieved

  8. ^Hernandez, Daniel (). "The Art Outlaws of East L.A." LA Weekly. Retrieved
  9. ^"Renegade Artists Get Museum Retrospective".

    Patssi Valdez See all works by Patssi Valdez Born in in East Los Angeles—where she grew up immersed in a Hispanic urban culture attuned to fashion, music, and films—Patssi Valdez began her artistic career while still in high school.

    Studio September 23, Archived from the original on February 2, Retrieved

  10. ^ abcChafin, Jane (7 September ). "An Interview with Patssi Valdez, An American Painter".

    Huffpost Arts and Culture. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 February

  11. ^ abBeagles, John (January ). "Artmoreorless". Sight & Sound. 24 (1). ISSN&#; Retrieved 26 February
  12. ^ abMesa-Bains, Amalia (9 July ).

    "Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquachismo". In Arredondo, Gabriela F.; Hurtado, Aida; Klahn, Norma; Najera-Ramirez, Olga; Zavella, Patricia (eds.). Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader. Duke University Press Books. ISBN&#;.

  13. ^ abWelles, Elenore (December ).

    Valdez is a multitalented artist in several media, including performance and conceptual art, installations, murals, fashion plan, collage, photography, easel painting, and set design. Her painted household interiors often function as self-portraits—intimate glimpses into internal thoughts and feelings. Vibrant, saturated colors electrify this topsy-turvy, magical room, where heavy theatrical curtains frame a wild and energetic scene [ The Magic Room, SAAM, Nothing is stable: carpet patterns swirl like whirlpools, wine glasses topple, chairs tip, rock, and float.

    "Patssi Valdez". Patssi Valdez. ArtScene. Retrieved 26 February

  14. ^"Patssi Valdez and the Importance of Fashion in her Artistic career with Asco". . October 22, Retrieved October 22,
  15. ^Welles, Elenore.

    "Patssi Valdez". Retrieved

  16. ^"Patssi Valdez". Angels Gate Cultural Center. Retrieved
  17. ^"Patssi Valdez". ArtSlant. Retrieved
  18. ^"Judithe Hernández and Patssi Valdez: One Route Two Journeys".

    . Retrieved

  19. ^"Xican-a.o.x.

    For nearly two decades, Patssi Valdez has been defining and redefining herself. As the years passed, Valdez has transformed her work from abstract ideas of Chicanismo to a painfully straightforward examination of herself and her immediate surroundings through painting. She now appears to be at a breakthrough moment. The exhibition, scheduled for April 24 through July 11 at the Laguna Art Museum, includes a survey of her paintings and some photographs dating from to

    Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved

  20. ^Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia; Del Toro, Marissa; Vicario, Gilbert; Chavez, Mike; Chavoya, C. Ondine; Salseda, Rose; Valencia, Joseph Daniel; Villaseñor Black, Charlene; Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, eds.

    (). Xican-a.o.x. body. New York, NY&#;: Munich, Germany: American Federation of Arts&#;; Hirmer Publishers. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;

  21. ^"Voces Latinas: Works on Paper from – present"(PDF). Nevada Arts Council.

    Retrieved

  22. ^"Patssi Valdez". The Chicano Collection. Retrieved
  23. ^"Patssi Valdez". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 26 February
  24. ^"Valdez - House of Spirits".

    National Hispanic Cultural Center. Retrieved

  25. ^"The Cheech Marin Collection". The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum. Riverside Art Museum. Archived from the original on 12 June Retrieved 12 June

Further reading

  • Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia; Del Toro, Marissa; Vicario, Gilbert; Chavez, Mike; Chavoya, C.

    Ondine; Salseda, Rose; Valencia, Joseph Daniel; Villaseñor Black, Charlene; Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, eds. (). Xican-a.o.x. body. New York, NY&#;: Munich, Germany: American Federation of Arts&#;; Hirmer Publishers.

    Please note that limited galleries remain open while we install our upcoming exhibitions. Acquire more. Born in in East Los Angeles—where she grew up immersed in a Hispanic urban culture attuned to fashion, harmony, and films—Patssi Valdez began her artistic career while still in high school. With friends Gronk Glugio Nicandro, b.

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  • McMahon, Marci R. (Fall ). "Self-Fashioning through Glamour and Punk in East Los Angeles Patssi Valdez in Asco's Instant Mural and a La Mode". Aztlan. Vol.&#;36, no.&#;2.

    Valdez is a multitalented artist in several media, including performance and conceptual art, installations, murals, fashion design, collage, photography, easel painting, and put design. Her painted domestic interiors often function as self-portraits—intimate glimpses into internal thoughts and feelings.

    pp.&#;21– ISSN&#;

  • Chavoya, C. Ondine; González, Rita (). Asco: Elite of the Obscure, a Retrospective, –. Williams College Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Maris Bustamante, Deborah Cullen, Amelia Jones, David E.

    James, Colin Gunckel, Ramon Garcia, Jesse Lerner, Chon A. Noriega, Michelle Habell-Pallán, Josh Kun, David Román, Mario Ontiveros, Tere Romo, Raúl Villa. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz. ISBN&#;.

  • Romo, Tere (). Patssi Valdez: A Precarious Comfort / Una comodidad precaria.

    San Francisco, California: Mexican Museum.

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