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Jos Sances
born Boston, Massachusetts 1952
March/April, from La Raza Graphic Center's 1983 Political Art Calendar
1982
screenprint on paper
Jos Sances, an Italian American artist from Massachusetts, settled in the San Francisco Bay Area after deserting the U.S. Army in an act of moral protest against the U.S. war in Vietnam. His skills as a master printer and his own politics drew him to La Raza Graphics, a Chicano/Latino print center in the city's Mission District. To critique U.S. interventions in Latin America, Sances visualized a leftist adage and turned the United States into a shark that swallows a powerful scorpion in the shape of Mexico and Central America. Alongside Chilean artist René Castro, Sances later founded Mission Gráfica, a print center devoted to the production of politically engaged fine art prints.
Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2020.45.15 |