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Today’s show: “Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes from Los Angeles Youth Culture, 1943 – 2016” is on view at Vincent Price Art Museum in Monterey Park, California through Saturday, February 25. The group exhibition, which includes work by 35 artists, looks at eight decades of youth culture, specifically Chicano and Latino culture, in the L.A. area. The show takes the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, in which white American servicemen attacked Mexican American youths who wore zoot suits, as its starting point.
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Janette Beckman, Hoyo Maravilla, East LA 1983, 1983.
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Shizu Saldamando, Morrissey, 2005, ball point pen on handkerchief.
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Gusmano Cesaretti, Mosca 1975 East L.A., 1975, archival pigment print.
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Humberto Sandoval, Still from Sr. Tereshkova, 1975, sepia tone photograph on paper.
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Janette Beckman, The Rivera Bad Girls East LA 1983, 1983.
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Patssi Valdez, DeDe Diaz and Anthony Villarreal, 1980s.
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Gregory Bojorquez, Rocking Out At The Roxy, Sunset Strip, 2010, archival pigment print.
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Patssi Valdez, The Chicana Clones, ca. 1980s, pigment print on metal.
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Dino Dinco, Untitled (Liza), 2001.
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Vincent Valdez, Kill the Pachuco Bastard, 2001, oil on canvas.
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Felix Quintana, A Repetition of Power, 2015, chromogenic print mounted on plexiflex.
U.S. armed forces personnel with wooden clubs on street during “zoot suit” riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943.
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Jack A. Herod, “Girls, asserted members of what police officials described as the ‘black widow’ girls’ gang, shown as they prepared to get into police car”, 1942.
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Patrick Martinez, vintage throwback po-lice, 2016, acrylic, Bic pen and Wite-Out on panel.
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Installation view of "Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes from Los Angeles Youth Culture, 1943 – 2016," 2016, at Vincent Price Art Museum.
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Installation view of "Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes from Los Angeles Youth Culture, 1943 – 2016," 2016, at Vincent Price Art Museum.
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