Chavez Ravine
Artist:
Vincent Valdez
(American, born 1977)
Date: ca. 2009
Medium: Screen print
Dimensions:
10 × 14 in. (25.4 × 35.6 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Michael McGowan
Object number: 2016.31.2
Copyright: © Vincent Valdez
Label Text
This work employs the language of graphic novels and comics to depict an embattled American space. Vincent Valdez’s screen print shows Chavez Ravine,
a predominantly Mexican-American community in Los Angeles that was forcibly evicted and repossessed over a decade in the 1950s to build a new stadium for the Dodgers. The vintage cars and neighborhood street suggest this is Chavez Ravine before it was demolished, with a statue of Christ the Redeemer interpolated into the scene.
(Yinshi Lerman-Tan, 2020)
a predominantly Mexican-American community in Los Angeles that was forcibly evicted and repossessed over a decade in the 1950s to build a new stadium for the Dodgers. The vintage cars and neighborhood street suggest this is Chavez Ravine before it was demolished, with a statue of Christ the Redeemer interpolated into the scene.
(Yinshi Lerman-Tan, 2020)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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