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Daniel González
born Los Angeles, California 1980
Arte es Vida: 40th Anniversary Día de Los Muertos Celebration
2013
laser-cut screenprint on paper
Looking to the Mexican papel picado (punched paper) tradition where artisans hand-cut tissue paper, González re-created this paper-cutting effect with experimental computer-based laser technology at the interdisciplinary design studio 2ndwnd in California. González's print commemorates the fortieth anniversary of Self Help Graphics' annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration that Chicano artists and communities began observing in the 1970s. The scene features allegories of life and death, LA landscapes, and iconographic references from Self Help Graphics' artistic history.
Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment, 2020.22.5 |