Existing comment:
Rupert García
born French Camp, California 1941
¡Cesen Deportación!
1973
reprinted in collaboration with Dignidad Rebelde in 2011
screenprint on paper
Coupling text with emotionally charged imagery, García issues a clear call to action: Stop deportation! Chicano artists since the 1960s have used barbed wire imagery -- long associated with painful historical events like the Holocaust, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the ill-treatment of Mexican guest workers during the Bracero Program (1942–64) -- to question the negative perception of undocumented immigrants. García and the Oakland-based collective Dignidad Rebelde reissued this iconic print in 2011 amid criticism of the Obama administration for its high record of deportations.
Museum purchase through the Samuel and Blanche Koffler Acquisition Fund, 2020.39.9 |