Gallery Tour—Vincent Valdez: El Chavez Ravine
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Fri, 03/29/2024 – 15:46
Be a part of a LACMA docent for a tour of Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine
El Chavez Ravine options Valdez’s oil portray on a 1953 Good Humor ice cream truck portraying the compelled elimination of a predominantly Mexican American neighborhood for the development of Dodger Stadium within the late Nineteen Fifties. In 2004, Cooder invited Valdez to collaborate and create a portray to align along with his album “Chavez Ravine” (2005), a musical interpretation of the neighborhood’s historical past. Posing a visible contradiction between the eviction and the ice cream truck, Valdez depicts Dodgers proprietor Walter O’Malley, former LAPD Chief William H. Parker, J. Edgar Hoover, and displaced households. Proven alongside Valdez’s preparatory supplies, El Chavez Ravine attracts from the fashion and historical past of Mexican and American muralism and Chicano automotive tradition. Lately acquired by LACMA, the work is a monument to a disturbing chapter in L.A. historical past and symbolizes struggles throughout the nation about inexpensive housing, eminent area, gentrification, and discrimination.
-Solar, 03/31/2024 – 14:30
Vincent Valdez, El Chavez Ravine, 2005–7, Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, present of Ryland Cooder, © Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder, photograph © Museum Associates/LACMA
Free with museum admission
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