Linda Vallejo - Untitled
Circa 1990, Mixed Media Collage,
22” x 10”

Plaza de al Raza, Los Angeles based cultural center celebrating it’s 40th Year Anniversary in 2010, has invited Linda Vallejo to present a Retrospective Exhibition in the Boathouse Gallery in May, June, and July 2010 in conjunction with the Latino Art Now! 2010 National Conference. In the past, the Boathouse Gallery has been the location of exhibitions by Frida Kahlo and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

The exhibition will include drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and installations dated from 1969-2009. The exhibition will be curated by Dr. Betty Ann Brown, Latin American Art History from the University of New Mexico, and Professor, Cal State University Northridge (CSUN) Art History Department.

A full color catalog will be produced including essays by Dr. Brown, as well as: ü Armando Duron - Los Angeles based collector and art aficionado ü Peter Frank - Editor of THE Magazine, art critic, and curator ü William Moreno - past Director of the Claremont Art Museum and the Mexican Museum in San Francisco, consultant and art dealer ü Gloria Orenstein - USC Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, renowned feminist and writer ü Sybil Venegas - Chairperson of the Chicana/o Studies Department at East Los Angeles College, historian and curator

PRESS RELEASE: Plaza de la Raza announces “fierce” Forty-year Retrospective of artist Linda Vallejo