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    Exhibit: Voces/Voices of the People

    ByMark Vallen January 21, 2015May 5, 2023

    I will be exhibiting at Voces/Voices of the People, a group exhibit at Avenue 50 Studio in the historic Highland Park area of Los Angeles. The show opens on Valentine’s Day: Saturday, February 14, 2015, with an artists reception from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Ave 50 Studio invited a number of LA artists to “visually discuss the issue(s) most prominent…

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  • Year in review

    Out With the Old, In With the New

    ByMark Vallen December 30, 2014

    I am continuing with my tradition of writing a “year in review” column, a habit that I have inflicted on the masses since 2008. So here are ten articles from this artist regarding cultural events of the past year; a collection that comprises my “Best of 2014.” Lost Horizons: Edward Biberman “Biberman (1904-1986) was an American realist painter that carved…

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  • Ayotzinapa Mexico | Xmas

    “Silent Night, Holy Night”

    ByMark Vallen December 25, 2014December 27, 2014

    This post is part of my notionally annual, but in point of fact, irregular attempt at spreading Christmas cheer on my web log. This year, when I heard the old Christmas standard Silent Night, I began to think of current events in Mexico, for reasons that will be apparent if you read this yuletide message in its entirety. In 1963…

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    Ten Year Anniversary of AFC Blog

    ByMark Vallen November 27, 2014January 4, 2023

    ¡Ay, Caramba! Today marks the 10th anniversary of my founding the Art For A Change web log. This labor of love was brought into existence on November 27, 2004. In prior years, I wrote articles that appeared on my website and e-newsletter, but in 2004 I made the change to the blogging platform due to its immediacy. As a lifelong…

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    Happy holidays and…

    ByMark Vallen November 25, 2014

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  • Ayotzinapa Mexico | Prints - Posters

    Ayotzinapa; Between pain and hope

    ByMark Vallen November 20, 2014April 21, 2021

    El Día de la Revolución is celebrated every year in Mexico on the 20th of November. The occasion this year marks the 104th anniversary of the 1910 revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. This year however will be different. The government has cancelled the annual military parade that ordinarily fills the capital’s streets. Instead, the Mexican people will…

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  • Chicanarte-Chicano art | Obituaries

    Richard Duardo: RIP

    ByMark Vallen November 19, 2014January 4, 2023

    “Where in the world, where in this situation now can I be revolutionary, iconoclastic, and a voice of freedom? And, mind you, I’d never even lifted a pencil or drawn a circle. I was eighteen. I thought, artist. You can be as revolutionary and loud and opinionated and self-righteous as you want to be in this world – in the…

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  • Ayotzinapa Mexico | Chicanarte-Chicano art | Día de los Muertos | Prints - Posters

    Dia de los Muertos – Monoprints

    ByMark Vallen November 1, 2014October 18, 2015

    To mark the 2014 observance of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), I have created a suite of twenty monoprints based upon an ancient Aztec glyph representing death. Essentially a printed painting, no two images are alike. The images were painted directly on a sheet of glass in oil paint, and burnished with a wooden spoon; each color…

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