LA Weekly 2017
15 Female Artists Who’ve Shaped the L.A. Art Scene by Eva Recinos LA Weekly April 3, 2017 Linda Vallejo ranked #4 “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 “Latino numbers and how the...
read moreLix Bearitz Magazine 1969
Lix Bearitz Magazine Torrejon, Madrid, Spain 1969 Excerpt: Perhaps no one can tell what prompts people to want a record, something written down about themselves…to want to apply a “fixative” to a given span of time so that it will be remembered, puzzled over awaiting interpretation, attached to the events in the past. We were about 100 teen-aged Americans, who came to Spain, to attend high school here in Madrid. We all had one thing in common, and that was travel. Some of us came from such places as Thailand, Tanzania...
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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 View the Brown Oscars series 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...
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The Art of Memory: Ten Stories Written and Illustrated by Ten Artists The Latino Family Literacy Project published by Lectura Books 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 Books is to create...
read moreLa Opinión 1983
Madre Tierra: Una Idea, Una Exposición, Una Publicacion Madre Tierra: A Concept, An Exhibit, a Publication by Shifra M. Goldman La Opinión Newspaper Los Angeles, CA Original Article English Translation Back to...
read moreSharpe Reference 2010
Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia Vol. 1 edited by David J. Leonard and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Sharpe Reference ISBN-10: 0765680831 ISBN-13: 978-0765680839 Linda Vallejo cited on p. 102 Purchase on Amazon Back to...
read moreHoughton Mifflin Company 1998
The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History edited by Marysa Navarro, Gwendolyn Mink, Gloria Steinem, Wilma Mankiller, Barbara Smith ISBN-10: 0618001824 ISBN-13: 978-0618001828 Mariner Books “Ethnic pride as a subject matter in modern art spread as Latina artists also began to examine their roots and reclaim their artistic heritage. Muralists Judith Baca and Judithe Hernandez and printmakers Carmen Lomas Garza and Linda Vallejo drew upon experiences in their communities and created images of hope for the...
read moreChicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA) 1990-1993
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA) Traveling exhibition 1990-1993 Museums: Bronx Museum of the Arts New York, The San Antonio Museum of Art, El Paso Museum of Art, Mexico City Modern Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Albuquerque Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modem Art, Fresno Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, National Museum of American Art, Wright Art Gallery at UCLA, Museo de America, Spain Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture Compañeros and Partners: The CARA Project by Alicia M. González and...
read moreW.W. Norton & Company 2001
Latinos: A Biography Of The People by Earl Shorris W.W. Norton & Company New York, NY ISBN-10: 0393321908 ISBN-13: 978-0393321906 Read excerpt Purchase on Amazon Back to...
read moreThe University of Chicago Press 1994
Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States by Shifra M. Goldman The University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0-226-30123-0 Chicago Linda Vallejo mentioned on pages 170, 218, 226-227 “Both artist and efficient art coordinator (curator, coordinator of a publication, etc.), Linda Vallejo (California, 1951) spent her formative years as an “Air Force brat” living in the United States and Europe. The Chicano movement was in full swing when she settled again in Los Angeles, and she...
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Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines Ann Landi, Editor 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 example, I began using a grid-based color...
read moreWiley-Blackwell Publishers 2016
Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women’s Studies Published by Wiley Blackwell 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 the Book View the Cover Back to...
read moreThe Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social 2015
Linda Vallejo’s work was featured in Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (Women Active in Letters and Social Change) accompanied by an essay written by Karen Mary Davalos, Chair and Professor, Loyola Marymount University Chicano/a Studies Department, entitled The Visual Arts of Linda Vallejo: Indigenous Spirituality, Indigenist Sensibility, and Emplacement. The Journal is published twice a year with the generous support of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science and the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural...
read moreNew York Post 2015
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...
read moreMujeres de Maíz ZINE 2015
Madre, Mother Mujeres de Maíz ZINE 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 Maiz zines feature original poetry, prose and visual art, and is a platform for writers and artists. “Mother earth is a quintessential notion of motherhood, a sacred living entity we are ceremoniously tied to. As Madre Tierra...
read moreUCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press 2014
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 published by UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Volume 1, Second Edition, 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 the history of the historic East L.A. arts center. Known for its...
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Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies published by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Vol. 39, No. 2, Fall 2014 The opening essays of the Fall 2014 issue explore the institutionalization of race and gender. The first essay analyzes mid-century authorization records for compulsory sterilization in California, an effort that targeted women of Mexican origin. The second traces the history of colorism and examines the experiences of four women of Mexican descent whose narratives reveal that colorism is perpetuated in the family. The third...
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Ofrendas of the Flesh published by Mujeres de Maíz Flor y Canto Zine 2014, vol. 12 ISSN:1947-4210 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 Chel”...
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Onodream Magazine. One Artist One Conversation Linda Vallejo Onodream Press Volume 3, Number 1 Los Angeles, CA edited by Louis Jacinto Louis Jacinto began photographing in Los Angeles in 1975 and is noted for his iconic images of the Punk Rock music scene in Los Angeles from the late 1970’s. Both Jacinto and the East Los Angeles art collective, ASCO crossed artistic paths throughout the 1970’s and 80’s, most notably in Jacinto’s series of photographs documenting an art exhibit and Punk Rock music show, “GRONKPATSSIPARTY.” Jacinto has...
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Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives by Elisa Facio and Irene Lara University of Arizona Press ISBN-10: 0816530971 Tempe, AZ Cover Art by Linda Vallejo Standing Spirits, 1999 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 in. from the collection of Paul Dillaway Artist Statement by Linda Vallejo on page 263. Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers exploring the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism....
read moreMujeres de Maíz ZINE 2013
Identity Blinging: Muejeres de Maíz Flor Y Canto Issue No. 11, 2013 Los Angeles, CA An anthology of art, poetry and prose written on issues of concern by women of color. Mujeres de Maíz is a collective for, by and of the people, specifically urban wombyn of color. The group started among the writings of empowering mentors; where the penetrating power of Xicanisma and important historical lessons and stories were shared through women’s creations and thereby planted in the hearts, minds, and spirits of las Mujeres de Maíz....
read moreOrange County Center for Contemporary Art 2012
Random Acts of Time: An International Call for Art Curator and Juror: William Moreno at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA May 5-June 16, 2012 Exhibition Statement: Time is a fundamental and certainly pragmatic tenant that regulates – to a greater or lesser extent – daily life; a marker for past, present and future. The “arrow of time,” coined by British astronomer Arthur Eddington, refers to the expansive visualization of time on a continuum. Yet the world’s cultures do not share...
read moreMake ‘Em All Mexican 2012
Make ‘Em All Mexican published by the artist in conjunction with solo exhibitions Preview and Purchase Publication ...
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Rites of Passage: Muejeres de Maíz Flor Y Canto Issue No. 10, 2012 Los Angeles, CA An anthology of art, poetry and prose written on issues of concern by women of color. Mujeres de Maíz is a collective for, by and of the people, specifically urban wombyn of color. The group started among the writings of empowering mentors; where the penetrating power of Xicanisma and important historical lessons and stories were shared through women’s creations and thereby planted in the hearts, minds, and spirits of las Mujeres de Maíz....
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