{"id":27246,"date":"2021-12-26T23:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T07:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lainfused.com\/?p=27246"},"modified":"2021-12-26T23:45:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T07:45:28","slug":"judy-baca-memorias-de-nuestra-tierra-a-retrospective-at-the-molaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lainfused.com\/judy-baca-memorias-de-nuestra-tierra-a-retrospective-at-the-molaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective at the MOLAA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective<\/a><\/strong> is the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of the internationally renowned Chicana muralist, public intellectual and community activist, Judy Baca.<\/strong> It gathers more than 110 works of art<\/strong> including paintings, sculptures, preparatory drawings and sketchbooks<\/strong>, was organized by independent curator Alessandra Moctezuma<\/strong> and MOLAA’s chief curator, Gabriela Urtiaga<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Baca is a painter and muralist, community arts pioneer, and scholarly-educator who has been teaching in the UC system for more than 30 years. She has shaped the literal landscape of Los Angeles.<\/strong> She has also led workshops and projects that not only have added hundreds of murals to the city’s walls, they’ve employed at-risk youth and served as gang intervention programs.<\/em><\/p>\n

During mid-1970s Los Angeles Baca pioneered a collaborative model that enabled young people to weave “hidden” histories of their underrepresented communities into monumental public artworks. These murals celebrated their people’s contributions and articulated their stories and struggles.<\/strong> Baca’s works became epic narratives, connecting youth with their diverse heritage and creating new “sites of public memory.”<\/p>\n

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Judy Baca stands flanked by images she employed in an installation at her 1976 show at the Woman\u2019s Building, one of a young clica member nicknamed \u201cFlaca,\u201d left, the other of the artist as a pachuca.(Gary Coronado \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The exhibition is divided thematically into three sections that present different aspects of Baca’s artistic production.<\/p>\n

Gallery A is the Womanist Gallery<\/strong>, where in we see female power presented. This gallery delves with greater insight into Baca’s more intimate history, and her very personal explorations of feminism, gender, and body politics. This gallery also focuses on Baca’s personal role models and their place in Baca’s history, upbringing, and understanding of the world. The Womanist Gallery lastly, features never-before-seen, surrealist ink drawings by Judy Baca, exploring her struggle with personal relationships.<\/p>\n

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