'Veterano' by Lawrence Colacion, 1995, Chicano Art, Xicano, Los Angeles, Lacma, Self Help Graphics & Art

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Signed lower right, 'L. Colacion' for Lawrence "El" Colacion (American, born 1968) and dated 1995. Titled, lower center, 'Veterano' with … Read more Signed lower right, 'L. Colacion' for Lawrence "El" Colacion (American, born 1968) and dated 1995. Titled, lower center, 'Veterano' with number and limitation, lower left, '5/48'.
Published by Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, California (from chop mark, blind stamped, lower left).
Sheet dimensions: 44 x 30 inches

Originally from Compton, California, Lawrence Colacion now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has exhibited widely and with success throughout California as well as internationally in Mexico, England, France, Germany and Italy. He also acted as art director for Mission Badlands Gallery in San Francisco. Colacion has printed at both the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco and at Self Help Graphics & Art (SHG) in East Los Angeles, where this example was created. SHG's prints can be found institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Tang Museum Skidmore College, Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian among others. Self-Help Graphics & Art has a permanent collection at UC Santa Barbara's California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives.

Colacion describes the incipience of his work as being in the genre of punk rock art. Artist statement:
"I see my art as an extension of my visual world, past, present and future. It is the sum of my total experience as growing up a Chicano in the Greater Los Angeles area. My images reflect my bi-cultural upbringing; they range from traditional Mexican icons to American pop icons. Our Lady of Guadalupe juxtaposed with Selena is possible as well as Bob's Big Boy eating a taco. Often when asked to describe my art or place it in a neat category, I have much difficulty. I suppose my art can be described as, "Post Pop Chicano Punk Art." "

This work is held in the McNay Art Museum, the Blanton Museum of Art and UC Santa Barbara's Archives.

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