The Year in Latinx Art, From Overdue Retrospectives to Promising New Museums
Since ARTnews profiled Judith F. Baca in 2017, the Chicana muralist has had a stellar run of exhibitions. In 2022, her impressive career retrospective, curated by Alessandra Moctezuma and Gabriela Urtiaga, finished its run at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. The show brought together numerous bodies of work by the artist, from her famed Las Tres Marias (1976) installation and her photographic suite documenting her 1976 performance Vanity Table at the Woman’s Building to various preparatory drawings for the dozens of murals completed over her six-decade career. The tour de force of the exhibition, however, was the to-scale projection of The Great Wall of Los Angeles, Baca’s monumental collaborative mural project in the San Fernando Valley that provides an alternative history from queer, feminist, and BIPOC perspectives. It was positively overwhelming to see the Great Wall in such an intimate way. She is currently at work extending the Great Wall’s narrative into the ’60s to today, courtesy of a $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.
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