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Poli Marichal
born Ponce, Puerto Rico 1955
Santuario
2018
linocut on paper
When Marichal moved from Puerto Rico to Los Angeles, she found a home at Self Help Graphics (est. 1970), one of the first Chicano print centers in the United States. Her dramatic linear style and linocut technique connects her work to a long history of political graphics in Mexico and Puerto Rico. Santuario, which portrays men, women, and children protectively held within two strong arms, conjures sanctuary cities as places where undocumented immigrants are afforded basic protections. She created the print as the Donald Trump administration threatened to defund sanctuary cities and implemented controversial policies against asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment, 2020.32.5 |