FAVELA! presents: RUPERT GARCIA



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One of the founders of the Chicano art movement, Garcia was actively involved in the civil rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War. He defines himself as a critical artist, which is, simply, a concerned human being. Garcia's twenty five year body of work speaks to issues of a shrinking global village, where ethnic and national boundaries warp and shake under pressures of the New World Order. Appropriation from mass culture subverts its original intention through an active engagement, provocation and call to action on the part of the viewer. Garcia uses borrowed imagery, quoting and juxtaposition of image and text as a strategy of critique and resistance.


born: French Camp, California
based: San Francisco.



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