El Viento-The Wind
Artist: Jose Lozano
Description
From the yellow pad series. The yellow pad series explores random imagery that comes into play to create a humorous and tragic narrative in a tele novela manner.
The size is 5 1/2" x 7," mixed media on gessoed paper & this piece is hand signed.
About the artists:
Jose Lozano received an MFA from CSUF. He has had seven solo shows including
Chicano Trickster at Manhattan Beach, Pop Narratives at Bess Cutler Gallery in
New York and El Que Pinta at Muckentheler Cultural Center in Fullerton. He has
been part of numerous exhibits including Papel Chicano and Chicanitas from the Cheech Marin Collection. He has curated varied exhibits for Avenue 50 Studio and Muckentheler Cultural Center. He has been part of serigraph atelier projects with self-Help Graphics. Several of the prints done there are now in the permanent collection of LACMA.
Awards/Projects
- He is the recipient of a California Community Foundation grant, mid-career in drawing and painting.
His public art projects include:
- LA Metro Loteria at the La Brea/Jefferson station
- Aliso Dreams, a mural for La Plaza Village on North Broadway in downtown LA.
- His most recent children's book Little Chanclas was awarded the best bilingual picture book by the Latino Book Awards Association and reviewed by the New York Times.
