artist - about cema
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Artist: Montoya, José Title: Dali Tortilla Date: April 1973 Medium: Flour tortillas utilizing a soldering iron for detail drawing, and white glue for protection against decomposition Dimension: 8" diameter Art Center: Royal Chicano Air Force Comments: From José Montoya's Tortilla Art series
Artist: Montoya, José Title: El Coyote Date: April 1973 Medium: Flour tortillas utilizing a soldering iron for detail drawing, and white glue for protection against decomposition Dimension: 8" diameter Art Center: Royal Chicano Air Force Comments: From José Montoya's Tortilla Art series
CEMA ARCHIVES, UCSB ©
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Che Guevara Acrylic on Flour Tortilla Framed 28" x 28"
Below,Madonna Marilyn Acrylic on Flour Tortilla Framed 28" x 28"
http://www.joebravo.net/tortilla/tortilla_h.html
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Festival de la Familia, April 2007. José Montoya’s son, Tomas, and his family.
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“Tortilla Art”José Montoya, April 1973 CEMA Archive, UCSB
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Ethnocentrism in the arts is balanced on a notion of Quality that “transcends boundaries”—and is identifiable only by those in power. According to this lofty view, racism has nothing to do with art; Quality will prevail; so-called minorities just haven’t got it yet. The notion of Quality has been the most effective bludgeon on the side of homogeneity in the modernist and postmodernist periods, despite twenty-five years of attempted revisionism. … Time and again, artists of color and women determined to revise the notion of Quality into something more open, with more integrity, have been fended off from the mainstream strongholds.
Lucy R. Lippard, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. New York: The New Press, 1990. 7
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11956 956 TimeTime magazine dubbed Pollack magazine dubbed Pollack ““Jack the Dripper.Jack the Dripper.””
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Norman Rockwell, “Triple Self- Portrait” 1960. The Saturday Evening Post, February 13, 1960 (cover) Oil on canvas 44 1/2 x 34 3/4 in. The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge (Massachusetts)
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“Corn in the Service of Revolution: Great Tortilla Conspirators.” The California Printmaker. 2007. 19.
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The Conspiracy uses their art to raise issues related to identity, immigration, miracle tortilla apparitions, the high price of tortillas in Mexico, and the rise of Transgenic Corn. The genetic engineering of corn is something that is impacting millions of people in the United States and Mexico and they address their concerns with it through their artwork and mischief.
““The Great Tortilla Conspiracy.The Great Tortilla Conspiracy.”” Artist Statement. Artist Statement. http://www.flickr.com/photos/elrio/sets/72157594283529437/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/elrio/sets/72157594283529437/
(Accessed March 01, 2008.)(Accessed March 01, 2008.)
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Rio called the space, “The People’s Gallery”
““The Great Tortilla Conspiracy Presents: Tortillas with ideas.The Great Tortilla Conspiracy Presents: Tortillas with ideas.”” November 23rd at the De Young Museum.November 23rd at the De Young Museum.It was located inside the De Young MuseumIt was located inside the De Young Museum’’s Kimball Gallery from 1:00pm s Kimball Gallery from 1:00pm -- 5:00pm on Wednesday 5:00pm on Wednesday and Thursday, and 1:00pm and Thursday, and 1:00pm -- 8:30pm on Friday8:30pm on Friday
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Rio Yañez
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Rene Yañez
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Rene Yañez Jos Sances
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Main Detail.1968-69 “Emergence of the Chicano Social Struggle in a Bi-Cultural Society.”Esteban Villa & RCAF.
Main Detail, Southside Park Mural 1977, Ren., 2001. RCAF
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José Montoya's Pachuco, Announcement Poster, ca. 1978
Flyer created by the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) for a fundraiser sponsored by El Teatro Campesino, 1978
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Ester HernándezLibertad, 1976
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Painted in 1978 at Estrada Courts by Mario Torrero and Congresso de Artistas Chicanos en . It was restored for in 1995.
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Tortilla art by Nicole Schach at The Great Tortilla Tortilla art by Nicole Schach at The Great Tortilla Conspiracy at GalerConspiracy at Galeríía de la Raza. April 7th, 2007a de la Raza. April 7th, 2007
Rio Yañez
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Details from The Great Tortilla Conspiracy exhibit at GalerDetails from The Great Tortilla Conspiracy exhibit at Galeríía de la Raza. April 7th, 2007.a de la Raza. April 7th, 2007.
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“Lupe and Sirena in Love,” 1999 “Encuentro,” 1999
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Rio Yañez. (Featured in “The Great Tortilla Conspiracy Presents: Tortillas with Ideas” at the De Young Museum)
Mac Dre Tortilla Apparition, Detail from Rio’s video installation at the De Young Museum
Rene Yañez
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