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Gilbert "Magu" Luján
born Stockton, California 1940;
died Arcadia, California 2011
Cruising Turtle Island
1986
screenprint on paper
Magu's fantastical landscapes imagine a world where Chicano culture is dominant. Cruising Turtle Island -- which references a Native name for North America -- pictures indigenous figures riding Chicano lowriders and "speaking" through ancient Mesoamerican speech scrolls. The anthropomorphic dog seen at the lower right is a common figure in Magu's art that he employed, in his words, as "a metaphor for indigenous Mexican-Indian heritage."
Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment, 2020.22.1 |