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Shizu Saldamando
born San Francisco, California 1978
Alice Bag
2016
screenprint on cotton paño
Saldamando looks to the paño art tradition to highlight musician Alice Bag, the former lead singer and cofounder of The Bags, a Chicana feminist first-wave punk band from LA. Paño art is associated with prisoners who use bedding materials, handkerchiefs, and ballpoint pens to create detailed drawings of ancient Mesoamerican scenes, portraits of women, and religious iconography. The artist printed this at Self Help Graphics, one of the oldest Chicano print centers in Los Angeles that provided space for the Vex, an important Chicano punk rock club.
Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment, 2020.22.8 |