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Patssi Valdez
born Los Angeles, California 1951
LA/TJ
1987
screenprint on paper
LA/TJ explores the psychological state of being a bicultural, alienated urbanite. Valdez's blackand-white montage shows a series of urban snapshots, including LA's iconic city hall building with its pyramidal rooftop, the ever-present traffic-riddled highways of Southern California, and a barbed wire fence engulfing a fedora-clad man. She added stenciled initials for Los Angeles (LA) and Tijuana, Mexico (TJ), to create movement, evoke sound, and frame the central composition. In this chaotic, compressed space, one senses how even the most populated of places can produce such profound feelings of loneliness.
Gift of Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores García, 2019.51.23 |