Chicano Male Unbonded

Posted by Harry Gamboa Jr. on August 6, 2017

Harry Gamboa Jr. photographing Roy Martinez, Artist, for Chicano Male Unbonded series.
Los Angeles, 2016
©2016, Denae Howard

Harry Gamboa Jr.: Chicano Male Unbonded
https://theautry.org/exhibitions/harry-gamboa-jr-chicano-male-unbonded

Opens September 16, 2017

Autry Museum of the American West
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462

Map and Directions:
Museum Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays.

also

LA/LA/LA
http://www.robertbermangallery.com/exhibitions/la-la-la?view=slider#11
Robert Berman Gallery
September 9 – October 14, 2017
At Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite B7
Santa Monica, California 90404

P: 310.315.1937
F: 310.315.9688
E: info@robertbermangallery.com
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 11am – 6pm

Harry Gamboa Jr. – Chicano Male Unbonded Photography Series
Excerpt from essay COLA 96 97 98 exhibition catalogue (pg. 26)
written by
Robert Byer

Gamboa’s work has continued in this “social surrealist” vein, driven by a need to distort and magnify the absurdity, chaos, and violence of contemporary urban experience. As in Gamboa’s other work, the Chicano Male Unbonded series rhetorically exaggerates and mocks stereotypical perceptions of ethnic identity as a response to his awareness of the complexities of negotiating and affirming it. The strategy of the photographs is simultaneously to acknowledge and counteract the image of the Chicano male as signifier of urban danger and criminality, as menacing Other. Gamboa poses and photographs his subjects in a way that seems to confirm or heighten such stereotypical connotations. A sense of dangerous confrontation is evoked by a series of theatrical devices: the men stand alone in deserted, dimly lit outdoor urban settings at night; with arms crossed or in their pockets, they look directly and unsmilingly into the camera; a low camera angle endows them with a presence that looms menacingly over us. These characters of the urban setting and of self-presentation guide the viewer to reductively read them as signifiers of the character of the photo graphed subjects, as identifying marks of Chicano maleness. This reading is subverted by the titles and captioned biographies of the photographed subjects, who are identified as academics, artists, actors, lawyers and other professionals, pillars of the community not the potential muggers they at first appear to be. Another look discloses quite ordinary dress and unremarkable physiognomies. The idea of “the Chicano male” is displaced finally by a series of individuals who do not exhibit any obvious visible qualities which connects or defines them as “Chicano,” a quality contained by rather than containing them. His subjects, then, are “unbonded” both in our initial sense of them being not yet bonded (that is, criminally dangerously, on the loose, beyond the control of the authorities), and in our final sense of their being freed from such “bonded” images and from the bonding performed by such images.

Selected works from Chicano Male Unbonded series are in the permanent collection of the following institutions:

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Washington, D.C.

Autry Museum of the American West
Los Angeles, California

Suggested Reading:

Chicano Males Stare Down Stereotypes
Brian de los Santos
NPR
April 25, 2013
http://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2013/04/25/178668030/chicano-males-stare-down-stereotypes

The Artists Take Over 
by  Katie Schaufelberger
Los Angeles Downtown News
November 5, 2010
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2010/11/05/entertainment/doc4cd47f04b3103706462176.txt

This side of paradise
Jana J. Monji
Pasadena Weekly July 3, 2008
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/this_side_of_paradise/6140

‘This Side of Paradise’ at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Christopher Knight
Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Page E1
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-paradise18-2008jun18,0,7824256.story

Technological Rituals:  Stories From The Annenberg Dialogues n.1 and n.2 
Rosanna Albertini
Annenberg Center for Communication  University of Southern California  Los Angeles, California  1999

Harry Gamboa Jr. 
Robert Byer
COLA 96/97/98  exhibition catalogue ( pgs. 26 & 27)
Municipal Art Gallery
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department  Los Angeles, 1998

A “COLA” That Refreshes  
Christopher Knight
Los Angeles Times Calendar (pgs. 1 & 8)
May 27, 1998
 http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-27/entertainment/ca-62803_1_municipal-art-gallery/2

Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices
Edited by Michael Renov, Erika Suderburg
University Of Minnesota Press
1995

The Magic Of Photography:  Ideas Images Take Shape At Fotofest 94  
Johnson, Patricia C.
The Houston Chronicle  Houston, Texas
November 14, 1994

Losing Focus?
Houston Press
December 1, 1994
 http://www.houstonpress.com/1994-12-01/culture/losing-focus

Contemporary Identities: 1993 Phoenix Triennial: 23 Artists
Bruce D. Kurtz, Karen C. Hodges
Phoenix Art Museum
1993

Exhibiting Tolerance  
The Arizona Republic  (pg. E1)
Phoenix, Arizona
August 22,1993

 Images Capture Human Drama
David Steinberg
Albuquerque Journal  Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 28, 1992

Curriculum Viva:  An Art Of Persona By Latinos Of Los Angeles
Margaret Lazzari
Visions  Vol.6, No. 2
Los Angeles, California
Spring, 1992

Iluminado Fronteras
Kurt Hollander
Poliester  Numero 1
Mexico D.F., Mexico
Primavera, 1992

 Report From Los Angeles:  Community Access
Kurt Hollander
Art In America  (Vol. 80, No. 6 pgs. 57-61)
New York, New York
June, 1992

 Iluminado:  Insight From Inside  
Susan Kandel
Los Angeles Times Calendar section  Los Angeles, California
August 15, 1991
 http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-15/entertainment/ca-574_1_public-art

Chicano Male Unbonded has been funded in part by fellowships awarded by the following organizations:

The Rockefeller Foundation/CSULA 
2004

The Durfee Foundation 
2001

The Flintridge Foundation 
2000

California Arts Council 
1996

Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department 
1996

Art Matters, Inc. 
1996

J.P. Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts 
1990

Special thanks to:

Larry Liang

Bailey Wong 

Chon Noriega, Ph.D.
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center

Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Ph.D. 
Stanford University

Eloy Rodriguez, Ph.D. 
Cornell University

Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Ph.D. 
Arizona State University

Daniel Centofanti

Individuals included in the series:

Father Richard Estrada, Priest, Church of the Ephphany (Episciopal Church), 2017
from Chicano Male Unbonded series
©2017, Harry Gamboa Jr.
11 inches x 14 inches
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of six

2017
Father Richard Estrada, Priest, Church of the Ephphany (Episciopal Church)
Daniel Hernandez, Journalist
Esteban Perez, Artist
Hugo Hopping, Artist
Angelo Gomez, Artist
Eduardo Robles, Mescalero
Daniel Quinonez, Brewer/Theorist

2016
Raul Baltazar, Artist
Roy Martinez, Artist

2013
Abel Baker Gutierrez, Artist
Benjamin Quiñones, Writer
Andres Garza, Film Director
Pete Galindo, Producer

2012
Orlando Tirado, Writer

2011
Louie Pérez, Musician (Los Lobos)
Rupert Garcia, Artist
Vance Valencia,  Actor  
Arnulfo Reyes,  Photographer
Gabriel Gutierrez, Ph.D. Historian , CSU Northridge 
Juan Renteria , Photographer
Jose Lopez, Light Artist

Gregory Bojorquez,  Photographer, 2010
from Chicano Male Unbonded
©2010, Harry Gamboa Jr.
11 inches x 14 inches
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of six

2010
William Moreno , Impresario
Ricky Garay,  DJ/Promoter
Armando Duron , Attorney
Gregory Bojorquez,  Photographer

2009
Mario Ybarra Jr. , Artist 

2008
James E. Blancarte,  Attorney 
Antonio Vigil , Artist 
Chuy Benitez , Photographer 
Carlos Frésquez , Artist  
Arnoldo Vargas,  Photographer 
Salomon Huerta,  Artist 

2007
Vincent Ramos , Artist 
Mario T. Garcia, Ph.D. , Historian , UC Santa Barbara 
Andres Janacua,  Artist 
Daniel Cenedejaz , Student,  CSU Northridge 
Alejandro Cenedejaz Mendez,  Student

Gilbert “Magú” Lujan , Artist , 2005
from Chicano Male Unbonded
©2005, Harry Gamboa Jr.
11 inches x 14 inches
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of six

2005
A.P. Gonzalez,  Writer/Director (UCLA)  
Abel Correa,  Student/Community Political Activist,  UI Urbana-Champaign 
Dominique Rodriguez , Musician  (Killsonic) 
Fidel E. Gomez , Actor 
Leo Limón , Artist
Raudel de la Riva,  Artist 
Del Zamora,  Actor 
Manuel G. “Oso” Lopéz,  Witness/Warrior
Luis R. Torres , Journalist
David Sandoval , Director , Educational Opportunity Program , CSU Los Angeles 
Adolfo “Rudy” Vargas , Media Designer 
John Ramirez, Ph.D.,  Chair Department of Communcation Studies , CSU Los Angeles 
Gilbert “Magú” Lujan , Artist 
Naiche Starhawk Lujan,  Musician 
Juan Pacheco , Social Documentary Photographer 
Julián Segura Camacho , Author  

2004
Richard Corona,  Provocateur 
Ernesto Chávez, Ph.D. Historian,  UT El Paso 
Luis J. Rodriguez,  Author/Activist 
Mike Muñoz , School Counselor 
William Franco, Artist 
Victor Valle , Scholar/Journalist 

2003
Gabriel Vallejo,  Filmmaker/Writer 
Lionel Maldonado, Ph.D. , Chair Chicano/a Studies,  CSU Los Angeles 
Miguel Paredes Jr. ,Writer 
Pete Navarro,  Attorney 
Angel Carrillo,  Community Activist
Eriberto  Artist , Westwood  
James T. Rojas , Urban Analyst
Gerard Meraz,  DJ/Mix Master

2001
Adam Avila,  Photographer 
George Silva,  Writer 
Francesco X. Siqueiros , Master Printer/Artist 
Joey Terrill,  Artist 
Francisco Martinez,  Worker 
Jose Lopez,  Light Artist
Marcos Loya,  Musician 
Jose Lopez-Morin, Ph.D.,  Historian , CSU Dominguez
Bobby Verdugo,  Counselor 
Eugene Rodriguez,  Artist 

Jaime Villaneda,  Curator, 2000
from Chicano Male Unbonded series
©2000, Harry Gamboa Jr.
11 inches x 14 inches
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of six

2000
Rodolfo Acuña, Ph.D. , Historian , CSU Northridge 
Luis Becerra,  Artist
Charles Canales,  Contemporary Arts Advocate
Victor Carrillo,  Poet 
Tony Castañeda , Student,  CSU Northridge 
George Cisneros,  Artist/Composer
Xavier Cázares Cortéz,  Artist/Curator 
Reuben de Leon,  Cultural Planner 
Mario Flores , High School Teacher 
William Flores, Ph.D. , Dean , CSU Northridge 
Jorge Garcia, Ph.D. , Dean , CSU Northridge 
Ramon Garcia, Ph.D. , Chicano Studies Professor , CSU Northridge 
Ruben Guevara,  Cultural Activist/Performer
Willie Herrón , Artist/Musician 
Jef Huereque , Artist/Designer 
Robert Diaz Le Roy , Film Director/Actor 
Harry Ortíz Liflan , Artist  
Joe Medina , Photographer 
Jim Mendiola , Film Director 
Ruben Mendoza , Author 
Sergio Muñoz-Sarmiento , Artist/Writer 
Mario Ontiveros, Ph.D.,  Art Historian 
Brandon Perez , Student,  CSU Northridge  
B.G. Ramirez , Graphic Artist
Jeffrey J. Rangel,  Art Historian 
Phillip Rodriguez,  Film Director 
Richard T. Rodriguez, Ph.D , Chicano Studies Professor , CSU Los Angeles 
Alfred Salas , Mexican Folkloric Dancer 
Marcos Sanchez-Tranquilino , Alchemist/Researcher 
Ray Santisteban , Film Director 
Elias Serna,  High School Teacher
Esteban Torres , Commisioner  (former U.S. Congressman) 
 Ruben Trejo,  Artist 
Joe Harry Troncoso , Artist 
Luis A. Vega,  Writer/Performer 
Carlos Velez-Ibañez, Ph.D. Anthropologist 
Jaime Villaneda,  Curator  
Rio Yañez , Student , CALARTS 
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto , Associate Director Arts and Humanities , The Rockefeller Foundation 

Willie Herrón , Artist/Musician , 2000
from Chicano Male Unbonded series
©2000, Harry Gamboa Jr.
11 inches x 14 inches
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of six

1998
Tomas Carrasco , Actor/Comedian 
Abelardo de la Peña,  Internet Publisher 
Octavio Tizóc Diaz-Gaitan , Student  
Lorenzo Flores III , Student , UC Berkeley 
Lorenzo Flores Jr.,  Chicano Studies Professor,  CSU Northridge 
Gary Fresquez , Elementary School Teacher 
James Gamboa , High School Teacher 
Ricardo Gonzalves , Concrete Poet
Genaro Molina , Photographer , Los Angeles Times 
Chon A. Noriega, Ph.D. , Film Theorist,  UC Los Angeles 
Roberto Sifuentes Sr. , Chicano Studies Professor , CSU Northridge 
Raúl Homero Villa, Ph.D. , Professor,  Occidental College 

1997
Joe Carreño , Zine Publisher
Harry T. Gamboa , Printing Supervisor  (retired) 
Otoño Luján , Artist/Musician 
Jason Ordaz , Musician 
Roberto Sifuentes Jr. , Performance Artist 
Jesús “Chuy” Torres,  Poet/Performer 
Daniel Villarreal , Actor 

Juan Garza , Film Director , 1996
from Chicano Male Unbonded
©1996, Harry Gamboa Jr.
11 inches x 14 inches
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of six

1996
C. Ondine Chavoya, Ph.D.  Art Historian 
Juan Garza , Film Director 
José Luis Ruiz , Executive Producer , Chicano!  
Roberto Trujillo, Ph.D , Head , Special Collections , Stanford University Libraries 

Juan Felipe Herrera,  Poet, 1995  
from Chicano Male Unbonded series
©1995, Harry Gamboa Jr.
11 inches x 14 inches
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of six

1995
Rudy Guglielmo Jr.,  Arts Administrator 
Jack Vargas , Librarian 
Juan Felipe Herrera,  Poet  

1994
Alfred Arteaga , Poet
Roberto Bedoya , Poet 
Robert Buitron , Photographer 
George Gamboa,  Polymer Technical Engineer 
Ken Zaragoza , Student

1993
Henry J. Gutierrez, Ph.D. , Professor , CSU San Jose 
Willie Varela,  Film/Video Director

1992
Ralph Cordova , Performance Artist 
Richard Montoya , Actor/Comedian 
Jesús Salvador Treviño , Film/Television Director 
Armando Rascón , Artist/Curator
Rene Yañez,  Artist/Curator  
Diego Gamboa , Student
Anthony C. Sandoval , Performer 

Humberto Sandoval, Actor, 1991
from Chicano Male Unbonded  series
©1991, Harry Gamboa Jr.
11 inches x 14 inches
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of six

1991
David Avalos,  Artist 
Oscar Garza , Arts Editor,  Los Angeles Times 
Victor Gamboa,  Elementary School Teacher 
Curtis Gutierrez , Artist
Miguel Juarez,  Paseño 
Eloy Rodriguez, Ph.D. Phytochemist,  UC Irvine
Humberto Sandoval , Actor 
John Valadez , Artist 
Zaragosa Vargas, Ph.D. Historian , UC Santa Barbara 
Gerardo Velázquez , Synthesized Music Composer 
Rick Salazar , Photographer 

http://www.harrygamboajr.com

Live Artists Live

Posted by Harry Gamboa Jr. on February 3, 2016

Live Artists Live
Performance Art and the Archive
http://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/live-artists-live-performance-art-and-the-archive/

Friday
January 29, 2016

USC Visions & Voices
The Arts and Humanities Initiative

USC Roski
School of Art and Design

l-r:
Erin Silver
Harry Gamboa Jr.
©2016, Barbara Carrasco

l-r:
Ron Athey
Amelia Jones
©2016, Harry Gamboa Jr.

l-r:
Ruben Mendoza
Nicole Scalissi
Harry Gamboa Jr.
©2016, Barbara Carrasco

l-r:
Nao Bustamante
Ron Athey
Dominic Johnson
Jennifer Doyle
Cassils
©2016, Harry Gamboa Jr.

l-r:
Karen Rapp
Nicole Scalissi
Barbara Carrasco
©2016, Harry Gamboa Jr.

l-r:
Cassils
Harry Gamboa Jr.
©2016, Harry Gamboa Jr.

University of Southern California
Los Angeles

http://www.harrygamboajr.com

This Is The City – UCLA Film Archive

Posted by Harry Gamboa Jr. on December 13, 2015

hg_ucla_film_archive13nov15aEMAIL chon_hg_billy_wilder13nov15EMAIL billy_wilder13nov15bEMAIL hg_mark_billy_wilder13nov15EMAIL fred_john_barbz_dan13nov15EMAIL This Is The City: Symposium Opening Night

November 13, 2015 – 7:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

Westwood

Images:

Harry Gamboa Jr. delivering keynote address Forever/Never on a Smoggy Day

Photo: Barbara Carrasco

Dr. Chon Noriega, Director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center;
Harry Gamboa Jr.
Photo: Barbara Carrasco

Dr. Jan Christopher Horak, Director, UCLA Film & Television Archive;
Dr. Mark Shiel, King’s College London;
Dr. Joshua Glick, Hendrix College;
Harry Gamboa Jr.;
Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago;
Dr. Dan Streible, NYU,
Mark Quigley, UCLA Film & Television Archive,
Dr. Chon Noriega, Director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center;
Dr. Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University.

Photo: Barbara Carrasco

Harry Gamboa Jr.;
Mark Quigley, UCLA Film & Television Archive

Photo: Barbara Carrasco

Fred Wells;
John Cheang, Producer, NBC News;
Barbara Carrasco;
Daniel Centofanti
Photo: Harry Gamboa Jr.

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Asco – No Movies – CAPC Bordeaux

Posted by Harry Gamboa Jr. on July 16, 2014

Asco – No Movies
26.06.2014 -> 05.10.2014
CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
France

Asco – No Movies
CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux

Asco – No Movies
Exhibition Reception
CAPC

Bordeaux – Los Angeles 50 Year Partnership at U.S. Consulate – Bordeaux Reception
l-r:
Harry Gamboa Jr.
Thomas Wolf (U.S. consul in Bordeaux)
Dan Finsel

http://www.sistercitiesofla.com/centre-darts-plastiques-contemporian

l-r:
Harry Gamboa Jr.
with
John Valadez,
mural production studio at Musée d’Aquitaine Bordeaux

Photo: David Diaz, Ph.D.

John Valadez
http://www.musee-aquitaine-bordeaux.fr/en/event/chicano-dream-chicano-artists-cheech-marin-collection-1980-2010

ASCO no movies Asco – qui signifie dégoût ou nausée en espagnol – est un important collectif d’artistes chicanos (première génération d’Américano-mexicains) actif dans les années 1970-1980. Ils réalisaient des performances, photographies, films et peintures dans les rues d’East Los Angeles, en marge de la scène artistique de LA. —- Extravagants à outrance, vêtus de costumes chinés ou fabriqués par leurs soins, les membres d’Asco mettaient en scène des performances provocantes qu’ils immortalisaient sous formes de photographies intitulées “No Movies”. Ce simple énoncé paradoxal plaçait leur action dans la catégorie des films conceptuels – une narration éphémère assimilée à une affiche ou un photogramme de film hollywoodien, dans lesquels les membres d’Asco devenaient de pseudo-ʺstars du barrioʺ. Leurs actions et performances étaient créées en réaction aux troubles sociaux et aux émeutes raciales de l’époque à Los Angeles. Leurs tableaux investissaient souvent les lieux d’incidents importants dans les jours qui suivaient l’événement sans que l’imagerie et le style de la performance y fasse directement référence. Si Asco appartenait à une contre-culture politique chicano, son esthétique adoptait une toute autre ligne. De fait, ce mélange d’art et de politique combiné à l’héritage chicano et à la pop, le punk et la mode de l’époque est unique. Le collectif a récemment été réhabilité au sein de l’histoire de la création artistique de LA et ses œuvres ont trouvé un nouvel écho auprès des jeunes générations d’artistes intéressés par la performativité, les fictions médiatiques et l’activisme politique. La première exposition monographique consacrée à Asco (Asco: Elite of the Obscure) a eu lieu en 2012 à Los Angeles dans le cadre de Pacific Standard Time, un événement protéiforme organisé par The Getty (expositions, performances, manifestations diverses et édition de livres) qui retrace l’histoire et l’influence des arts visuels à Los Angeles dans la seconde moitié du XXème siècle. Cette exposition saluée par la critique avait été conçue à partir d’une thèse de doctorat ayant pour sujet Asco. Elle présentait une chronologie des activités du collectif au moyen d’archives et d’œuvres variées, ainsi qu’une publication exhaustive. L’œuvre d’Asco a récemment fait l’objet d’expositions à la Tate Modern, la Tate Liverpool, au Centre Pompidou et d’un article important dans Artforum en 2011. L’exposition présentée au CAPC vise à insister sur l’importance de leur travail au regard des critères de l’art performatif et de l’art interdisciplinaire réalisé dans la seconde moitié du 20ème siècle. L’exposition d’Asco au LACMA était impressionnante d’érudition et se concentrait essentiellement sur la photographie. Celle du CAPC en revanche, s’intéresse autant aux costumes, aux vidéos et aux installations qu’aux photos, dans le but de reconstituer sous forme d’exposition les dimensions performatives, physiques et le rapport au contexte des œuvres d’Asco. Les principaux prismes d’interprétation de cette exposition sont les explications des artistes eux-mêmes concernant leurs œuvres et le contexte politique, culturel et historique dans lequel elles ont été réalisées.

Irene Aristizábal et Alex Farquharson sont les commissaires d’Asco: No Movies, une collaboration entre De Appel arts centre d’Amsterdam et le CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. L’exposition s’appuie sur la récente rétrospective Asco: Elite of the Obscure préparée par les commissaires Rita Gonzalez et C. Ondine Chavoya pour le compte du Los Angeles County Museum of Art et du Williams College Museum of Art.

Exposition realize avec le soutien de Chaucer Freight et l’Ambassade des Etats-Unis d’ Amérique en France. Dans le cadre du 50 anniversaire du jumelage Bordeaux-Los Angeles Bordeaux – Los Angeles 50 Year Partnership.

ASCO — which means disgust or nausea in Spanish — are an important Chicano (first generation Mexican American) collective active in the 1970s-80s working with performance, photography, film and painting on the streets of East Los Angeles, beyond the centre of the L.A. art world. Highly flamboyant, ASCO staged provocative performances that were captured on camera as photographs they called ‘no movies’. Their actions and performances were created in response to the social unrest and race riots that occurred at this time in Los Angeles. While belonging to a political Chicano counter-culture, aesthetically they went in quite a different direction. As such, their combination of art and politics, interwoven with their Chicano heritage and the pop, punk and fashion of their time, is unique.

CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
7 rue Ferrère
F-33000 Bordeaux
France

Tél. +33 (0)5 56 00 81 50
http://www.capc-bordeaux.fr

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The View From Here: L.A. and Photography – The Getty Center

Posted by Harry Gamboa Jr. on June 4, 2014

The View From Here: L.A. and Photography

The Getty Center

Harold M. Williams Auditorium

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Los Angeles

l-r:

Stephen Shore
Alex Prager
Harry Gamboa Jr.
Colin Westerbeck
John Divola

Photo:
©2014, Veronica Corona-Popovic

Sponsored by the Getty Museum Photographs Council on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of photography’s invention, this all-day symposium addressed the state of photography as it relates to Los Angeles during the past 25 years.

Introductory remarks:

Timothy Potts
Director
J. Paul Getty Museum

An Education: Teaching and Studying Photography in L.A.

Panelists:
JoAnn Callis
Robbert Flick
John Divola
James Welling

Moderator:
Anne Wilkes Tucker

Los Angeles Shoots Itself: Looking at Southern California

Panelists:
Matthew Brandt
John Divola
Harry Gamboa Jr.
Alex Prager
Stephen Shore

Moderator:
Colin Westerbeck

From the Rearview Mirror: Critical Perspectives on L.A.

Panelists:
Jan de Bont
Christopher Knight
Rebecca Morse
Jennifer Watts

Moderator:
Virginia Heckert

Closing Remarks:

Judith Keller
Senior Curator
Department of Photographs
The Getty Museum

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Harry Gamboa Jr. – Biography

Posted by Harry Gamboa Jr. on April 28, 2014

Harry Gamboa Jr.

Harry Gamboa Jr. is an artist, writer, and educator.

He is the founder and director of Virtual Vérité (2005-2017), the international performance troupe.

He is a co-founder of Asco (1972-1985), the Los Angeles-based performance group.

He is a faculty member of the Photo/Media Program at California Institute of the Arts.

He is a lecturer with the Chicana/o Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.

His work has been exhibited by museums + galleries + art spaces nationally/internationally :

Marlborough Contemporary, New York (2017); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016, 2015 and 1995 Biennial); Utah Museum of Fine Arts (2015); Princeton University Art Museum (2015); Centre d’Arts Plastiques Contemporain Bordeaux, France (2014); De Appel, Amsterdam (2014); Triangle France, Marseille, France (2014); Smart Museum of Art, Chicago (2014); Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria (2013); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England (2013); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (2013); Le Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France (2013, 2017); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (UNAM), Mexico City (2013); Tate Liverpool, Liverpook, England (2013); The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York (2013); UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Rim Film Archive (2012); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2011, 1981); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011, 2010); Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2009); Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2011); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England (2009); Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico (2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011, 2008, 2001); Fowler Museum, UC Los Angeles (2011); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2008); Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles (2008); El Museo del Barrio, New York (2008, 2010); The Huntington Library, San Marino, California (2008); Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City (2006); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2006); Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City (2005); International Center of Photography, New York (2003); MIT List Visual Arts Center (2000); Queens Museum of Art (1999); Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (1997); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (1996); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1994); Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (1994); LAX/CSU Los Angeles (1994); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (1981); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1979); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (1978); Museo Alvar y Carmen T. Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (1978); Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (1977).

Current Exhibition:

Harry Gamboa Jr.: Chicano Male Unbonded
https://theautry.org/exhibitions/harry-gamboa-jr-chicano-male-unbonded

Autry Museum of the American West
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462

Opens September 16, 2017

Map and Directions:
Museum Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays.

Current Exhibition:

Harry Gamboa Jr.
http://www.marlboroughcontemporary.com/exhibitions/viewing-room-harry-gamboa-jr
Viewing Room

September 7 – October 7, 2017

Marlborough Contemporary
545 W 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
212.541-4900

Current Exhibition:

LA/LA/LA

September 9 – October 14, 2017

Robert Berman Gallery
http://www.robertbermangallery.com/exhibitions/la-la-la?view=slider#11
At Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite B7
Santa Monica, California 90404

P: 310.315.1937
F: 310.315.9688
E: info@robertbermangallery.com

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 11am-6pm

Current Exhibition:

Muros Blandos/Soft Walls

September 1, 2017 – January 22, 2018

Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende
http://mssa.cl/exposicion/muros-blandos/
República 475
Santiago, Chile
+56 2 2689 8761

He has received numerous awards from institutions including the Rockefeller Foundation (2004), the Durfee Foundation Artist Award (2001), the Flintridge Foundation Visual Artist Award (2000), the Gluck Foundation (1998–1999), the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts (1990), the California Arts Council (1996), Art Matters, Inc. (1996), and National Endowment for the Arts (1987 and 1980).

Hilda Solis, Los Angeles County Supervisor, First District presented Harry Gamboa Jr. with a County of Los Angeles Commendation, August 1, 2017

In recognition of dedicated service to the affairs of the community and for the civic pride demonstrated by numerous contributions for the benefit of all citizens of Los Angeles County.

2010 Latino Heritage Month was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by a wide spectrum of supporters in Council Chambers at the famed Los Angeles City Hall, where Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa presented the Latino Heritage Awards: Spirit of Los Angeles, Willie Herrón III, Patssi Valdez, and Harry Gamboa Jr. accepted the award on behalf of Asco), Dream of Los Angeles Tony Plana, Hope of Los Angeles Plácido Domingo.

He has taught, lectured, and delivered artist talks at various universities and art institutions, including: University of Houston, California State University, Northridge, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Riverside,University of California, Irvine, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, San Diego, Otis/Parsons, and Maine College of Art. He has delivered artist talks at: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Harvard University; UC Berkeley; Stanford University; Dartmouth College; Cornell University; Scripps College, Claremont Graduate University; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda”, Mexico City.

In Fall 2017, he delivered keynote, Summer School #2 MAKING PUBLIC DOMAIN, Middelheim Museum, Antwerpen [10], organized by by Nico Dockx (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten) and Pascal Gielen (ARIA).

In Fall 2012, Universitair Centrum Sint Ignatius Antwerpen – UCSIA sponsored Gamboa to present, La La Land: Deflections and Recollections, an artist talk at Universiteit Antwerpen. He also worked with students and faculty of Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) along with Belgian artists Ria Pacquée and Nico Dockx to produce “actions” in Antwerpen and Brugge.

His photographs are in the permanent collection of Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

His photographs are in the permanent collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

His photographs are in the permanent collect of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

His photographs are in the permanent collect of Wiliams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA.

His photographs are in the permanent collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.

His photographs are in the permanent collection of Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles

His lithographs are in the permanent collection of Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles.

His oral history is included in Smithsonian Archives of American Art (1999).

His oral history is also included in Alternative Projections, Experimental Film in Los Angeles 1945-1980, a project of Los Angeles Filmforum (2011).

A permanent collection of his media works/papers has been established and archived at Green Library, Stanford University. He is the author of several books:

Gamboa, Harry Jr.; Aztlángst 2 ; c2015. ISBN 1477615822 (paperback)
Gamboa, Harry Jr.; Vie 21, Photo Journal 1 ; c2014. ISBN 1500706868 (paperback)
Gamboa, Harry Jr.; Worker Ant (1) ; c2013. ISBN 1493544349 (paperback)
Gamboa, Harry Jr.; Aztlángst: La La Fotonovela (Volume 1) ; c2011. ISBN 1-4505-6964-1 (paperback)
Gamboa, Harry Jr.; Fallen ; c2010. ISBN 1-4505-6964-1 (paperback)
Gamboa, Harry Jr.; edited by Chon A. Noriega. Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, c1998. ISBN 0-8166-3051-8 (hardback), ISBN 0-8166-3052-6 (paperback)

His video and film work is available:

Harry Gamboa Jr., 1990’s Chicano video art’. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2004.
Harry Gamboa Jr., Early Chicano video art’. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2004.
Routemaster Remix Project Live’. Ilppo Pohjola, Crystal Eye Ltd, 2003.
Asphalto Routemaster. Ilppo Pohjola, Crystal Eye Ltd, 2003.

His works are featured in numerous museum catalogues including:

Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015.
The City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980. Yale University Press, 2015.
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., 2014.
Performance as Archive , Archive as Performance. Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (Belgium), 2013.
Glam! The Performance of Style. Tate Liverpool (England), 2013.
ASCO: Elite of the Obscure: A Retrospective 1972-1987. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011.
MEX/LA: Mexican Modernisms in Los Angeles 1930-1985. Museum of Latin American Art, 2011.
L.A. Xicano. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2011.
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981. Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011.
Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles Art, 1945–1980. Getty Research Institute and J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008.
This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs. The Huntington Library, 2008.
Los Angeles 1955-1985 Birth Of An Art Capital. Centre Pompidou, 2006.
Only Skin Deep. International Center of Photography, 2003.
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
Global Conceptualism. Queens Museum of Art, 1999.
1995 Biennial Exhibition. Whitney Museum of Art, 1995.
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985. Wight Art Gallery, 1991.
Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992.
L.A. Hot & Cool. MIT/Bank of Boston, 1987.

His work is featured in numerous books including:

Both Sides of Sunset – Photographing Los Angeles. Edited by Jane Brown, Marla Hamburg Kennedy. Foreword by Ed Ruscha. Introduction by David L. Ulin., Metropolis Books, 2015.
Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s. Michael Fallon , Counterpoint, 2014.
A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements . Nicolas Lampert, The New Press, 2013.
Live Art in LA: Performance in Southern California, 1970 – 1983. Peggy Phelan, Routledge, 2012.
Mexican Americans in Los Angeles. Alex Moreno Areyan, Arcadia Publishing, 2010.
Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics. Richard T. Rodriguez, Duke University Press, 2009.
Technological Rituals, Stories from the Annenberg Dialogues’. Rosanna Albertini, University of Southern California, 1999.
Chicanos And Film: Representation and Resistance’. Chon A. Noriega, University of Minnesota Press, 1992.

His wok has been internationally featured in various publications:

Asco and Friends: Exiled Portraits – Triangle France

Posted by Harry Gamboa Jr. on March 13, 2014

Asco and Friends: Exiled Portraits
March 7 – Juy 6, 2014
Friche La Belle De Mai Marseille
Harry Gamboa Jr.
Gronk
Willie F. Herrón
Patssi Valdez
with
Oscar Castillo
Cyclona
Jerry Dreva
John Valadez
Humberto Sandoval
and others.
Curated by Triangle France as part of the 2014 program me of Le Cartel, in co-production with Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA.