Flatiron Books 2021
L.A. Weather: A Novel Flatiron Books By María Amparo Escandón ISBN: 9781250802569 September 7, 2021 Linda Vallejo mentioned on page 95 Synopsis FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in this fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza’s Box of Saints. L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from...
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L.A. Memo Paints a Dynamic Picture of Chicana/o Art Hyperallergic by Matt Stromberg New York June 26, 2022 Excerpt This is not a “greatest hits” show, but rather features many influential Chicana/o artists experimenting with both medium and message, a freedom afforded them by their relative obscurity at the time. For example, Linda Vallejo is represented by three works: “Pyramid City: Anahuac” (1980), a paper and wire model of futuristic urbanism named for the Nahuatl word for a region in central Mexico; “Complex Woman” (c....
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The Visual Arts of Linda Vallejo: Indigenous Spirituality, Indigenist Sensibility, and Emplacement C/LS Journal 15(1) Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Arizona State University, Chicana/Latina Studies Fall 2015 Linda Vallejo’s work was featured in the Fall 2015 issue of Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (Women Active in Letters and Social Change) as well as an artist statement titled Chicana Indigena as a Creative Path. Vallejo’s contributions were...
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Visualizing what it means to be a person of color… Women’s Caucus for the Arts: Art Insights by Marianne McGrath January 26, 2022 Linda Vallejo’s interview is part of a series of interviews organized by the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) Art Writers Group to highlight leaders of WCA in celebration of our 50th Anniversary. Artist Linda Vallejo creates work that investigates contemporary cultural and political issues, visualizing what it means to be a person of color in the United States. Linda is one of the recipients of the...
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Voices from the Ancestors and Beyond: Chicanx/Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices edited Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales University of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 9780816539567 October 2019 Involvement in Indigenous Circles Between 1985-2000 I served as a volunteer spiritual advisor for the Native American Religious Society at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in Norco, California. The women that I served had all been in and out of correction institutions for the majority of their lives. Many women were...
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Habitat: On the Road ArtNews Magazine by Katherine McMahon Winter 2019 New York Excerpt L.A.-born painter Linda Vallejo does a lot of thinking in her 2009 Toyota Avalon, which carries her to and from her home in Topanga Canyon. “I work through images in my mind while driving,” she said. Traffic can be a bad influence. “Because of the congestion, a lot of us are becoming rude drivers.” But there’s an upside too: “When people think of California, they think of a classic car driving down Santa...
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. One Year: The Art of Politics in Los Angeles LA Art News December 8, 2017 Excerpt Linda Vallejo’s ‘The Brown Dot Project’ puts a human face on data—for example, a portrait of a young woman composed of 33,461 brown dots that illustrate the fact that 30.9% of Latinos living in the U.S. earned $50K+ in 2014. Full article ...
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Inside Self Help Graphics & Art Día De Los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy, Past Present & Future / PST: LA/LA by Eva Recinos Fabrik Magazine Issue 37 October 17, 2017 Full article Purchase magazine ...
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Linda Vallejo “Keepin’ it Brown” bG gallery, Santa Monica, CA by Lawrence Gipe Art and Cake LA Los Angeles, CA September 30, 2017 Excerpt Although political, “The Brown Dot Project” exudes the zen-like chill factor of Agnes Martin. The entire suite has a charming, “loving hands at home” quality in its tactile simplicity. The visual appeal of each pattern collides skillfully with the statistical backstory – transporting the viewer from abstraction to the realm of activist art reality. The designs that Vallejo constructs from all...
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Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties by Karen Mary Davalos ISBN: 9781479821129 New York University Press July 25, 2017 Linda Vallejo’s artwork featured on pages 116-117 From NYU Press: Chicana/o Remix casts new light not only on artists—such as Sandra de la Loza, Judy Baca, and David Botello, among others—but on the exhibitions that feature their work, and the collectors, curators, critics, and advocates who engage it. Combining feminist theory, critical ethnic studies, art historical analysis,...
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Deconstructing Liberty: A Destiny Manifested by Liz Goldner Art and Cake August 27, 2017 Read the full article here
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Liberty of Art for All by Erika Hirugami, MAAB. Founder and CEO of CuratorLove August 7, 2017 Read the full article here
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Guest critic: ‘Homage to Mango Street’ channels ‘mission to promote dialogue’ by Howard Halle, editor-at-large and chief art critic for Time Out New York The Chautauquan Daily Chautauqua, New York July 14, 2017 Excerpt Of the artists, only Linda Vallejo deals directly with the politics of identity, or more precisely, the vicissitudes of living as a Latino within a dominant Anglo culture. The Los Angeles-born artist’s “Drunken Revery” is an ensemble of antique liquor decanters, each painted with a reproduction of a classic Norman...
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15 Female Artists Who’ve Shaped the L.A. Art Scene by Eva Recinos LA Weekly Los Angeles, CA April 3, 2017 Linda Vallejo ranked #4 Excerpt “In taking familiar figures and making them brown (a series she calls “Make ’Em all Mexican”), Mexican-American artist Linda Vallejo challenges the viewer to re-examine the familiar icons of pop culture. Vallejo also looks specifically at the Latino community in Los Angeles, as evidenced in “The Brown Dot Project.” Though now in many variations, the idea started with analyzing the...
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Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women’s Studies Wiley-Blackwell Publishers Edited by Bonnie Kime Scott, Anne Donadey, Irene Lara, and Susan E. Cayleff ISBN: 978-1-118-54112-8 July 2016 Cover art by Linda Vallejo Sacred Oak: Moonlight, 2002 Oil on canvas 24 x 18 in. from the collection of Olivia Robledo The Electrics Purchase publication View cover ...
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In her series ‘Make ‘Em All Mexican,’ artist Linda Vallejo imagines #OscarsSoBrown by Carolina A. Miranda Los Angeles Times Calendar Section, Cover Feature February 19, 2016 Los Angeles, CA This may be the moment of #OscarsSoWhite, but one Los Angeles artist prefers to imagine it as the year of #OscarsSoBrown. Since 2011, Linda Vallejo has transformed found bits of Americana — a Bob’s Big Boy statue or figurines of Elvis and Gary Cooper from “High Noon” — into more Mexican-ized icons with careful...
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The Art of Memory: Ten Stories Written and Illustrated by Ten Artists The Latino Family Literacy Project Lectura Books SKU: 978-1-60448-040-5 Ten different artists come together to tell a memorable childhood story. A bilingual book that parents and kids are sure to enjoy! Available November 1, 2016. Lectura Books publishes books in a bilingual format in English and Spanish so that Spanish speaking parents can read with their children in Spanish and develop English language skills along with their children. The mission of Lectura...
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Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines Vasari21 By Linda Vallejo Ann Landi, Editor 2016 The Brown Dot Project (TBDP), a series of mine from 2015, has been deeply influenced by the renowned Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines, whose works investigate the way rules-based procedures construct order and meaning. Gaines, born in 1944, makes drawings, photographs, and videos that grow out of a firmly conceptual practice. As Wikipedia puts it, his “work interrogates the discourse relating to aesthetics and politics.” Inspired by his...
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Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Arizona State University Vol. 15, Issue 1 Fall 2015 Linda Vallejo’s work was featured in the Fall 2015 issue of Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (Women Active in Letters and Social Change) as well as an artist statement titled Chicana Indigena as a Creative Path. Vallejo’s contributions were accompanied by an essay written by Karen Mary Davalos, Chair and Professor, Loyola Marymount University Chicano/a Studies Department,...
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The one museum show Donald Trump should see this summer by Barbara Hoffman New York Post New York, NY July 27, 2015 Full article Back to...
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Madre, Mother—Mujeres de Maíz Collective group exhibition with accompanying “zine” published by Mujeres de Maíz Avenue 50 Studio Los Angeles, CA March 14—April 4, 2015 The longest running self-identified women of color zine in the nation. Zines are a non-commercial form of independent media that circulate information and communicate stories that are often devalued in popular culture, public discourse and mainstream politics. The Mujeres de Maíz zines feature original poetry, prose and visual art, and is a platform...
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Self Help Graphics & Art: Art in the Heart of East Los Angeles edited by Colin Gunckel, Faculty, University of Michigan, Department of American Culture (AC), Latina/o Studies (LS), and Department of Screen Arts & Cultures UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press The Chicano Archives, Volume 1, Second Edition ISBN-10: 0895511541 ISBN-13: 978-0895511546 Los Angeles, CA January 2014 This second edition of Self Help Graphics & Art brings the original edition, published in 2005, up to date, adding breadth and depth to...
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Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Vol. 39, No. 2, Fall 2014 Aztlán presents original research that is relevant to or informed by the Chicano experience. An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, Aztlán focuses on scholarly essays in the humanities, social sciences, and arts, supplemented by thematic pieces in the dosier section, an artist’s communiqué, a review section, and a commentary by the editor, Charlene Villaseñor Black. Aztlán seeks ways to bring Chicano studies into...
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Ofrendas of the Flesh Mujeres de Maíz Flor y Canto Zine 2014, Vol. 12 ISSN:1947-4210 Los Angeles, CA Over the years Mujeres de Maiz Zine publications have evolved into beautiful 30-60 page soft-bound booklets with 20-30 poems, and over 15-25 full color pages of original works. There are over 30 visual artists & poets in every issue with generations of creative women of color from throughout the United States and worldwide. Artists included: Margaret ‘Quica’ Alarcón, Mary Alvarado, Sandra Arévalo, Susana “Ix...
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