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Self Help Graphics Completion Date: July 31, 2008
Linda
Vallejo, "Electric
Landscape" 2008,
seven color limited edition serigraph, The Maestra Atelier featured artists Judy Baca, Barbara Carrasco, Magda De Jose, Emilia Garcia, Aydee Lopez, Poli Marichal, Gina Stepaniuk, and Linda Vallejo. The entire 10-artist suite atelier is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UC Santa Barbara's Special Collections, Galeria Sin Fronteras in Austin, Texas, and the Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Chicago. ANN LANDI, contributing editor of ARTnews and author of the four-volume Schirmer Encyclopedia of Art, states, "Linda Vallejo lives in an area surrounded by venerable but endangered oaks, and these have become the basis for a series of "electrified" paintings: the trees appear to glow with an almost otherworldly light. Vallejo says, 'The electric oak and landscape works echo my experiences in Indigena." For many years Vallejo has been involved in Native American and Chicana Indigena ceremonies, many of which take place in remote locales, far from so-called civilization. You're literally in the middle of nature,' she says, 'and participating in ceremony that allows you to look at the sky and landscape for hours and days on end.' Some of the magical, almost hallucinatory quality of those experiences have made their way into the "The Electrics" series. They recall the reverence and animation that artists like van Gogh and O'Keeffe brought to their paintings of the natural world."
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