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Exhibits, Accomplishments *
Mi
Ciudad of Los Angeles
Avenue
50 Studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA.
March
12, 2016 to April 2, 2016
Curated
by L.A. painter Raoul De la Sota, the group exhibit had as
its theme the megalopolis that is the City of Los Angeles.
I
exhibited two drawings created in 1980, Hollywood
Blvd., We’re Doomed and Hollywood Blvd., Punk Rules.
Serigrafía
The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA)
January
19, 2014 to April 20, 2014
An
exhibition of thirty silkscreen prints created by twenty-three
Chicano artists from the early 1970s to the present-day. My
1980 silkscreen print, Nuclear War?!… There Goes My Career!
was included in the survey of socially conscious prints from
the Chicano Arts Movement. Serigrafía
was held in conjunction with the PMCA's major exhibit of works
by Alfredo Ramos Martínez.
Indigenous
Roots: Visual Interpretations of Personal Histories
Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA.
December
14, 2013 to January 25, 2014
In
this show thirteen artists visually interpreted the ethnic,
cultural and racial histories that influenced their art. I
premiered two oil paintings in the exhibit, L.A. Subway,
and Urban Landscape: She disappeared in a cloud of graffiti.
Joined
the Arts and Letters Council of the Mexican Museum of San
Francisco
August
2013
I
accepted an invitation to join the Arts
and Letters Council of the Mexican Museum of San Francisco.
By accepting the position I have become part of a group of
esteemed artists, writers, and scholars who have lent their
names in support of the museum and its upcoming expansion.
The Mexican Museum is the only San Francisco museum that is
an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and it holds
a growing permanent collection of over 14,000 Pre-Hispanic,
Colonial, Popular, Modern and Contemporary Mexican, Latino,
and Chicano artworks. It is the largest such collection in
the continental United States.
Prison
Nation: Posters On The Prison Industrial Complex
Traveling
exhibition
October
27, 2012 through December 21, 2012
My
silkscreen print, To
Protect and Serve the Rich - Jail the Homeless
(created in 1987), is part of the Prison Nation traveling
exhibit of posters. The show opened on January 19, 2013 at
the UC Merced Kolligian Library on the campus of the University
of California, Merced. Curated by the Center for the Study
of Political Graphics (CSPG) of Los Angeles, California, Prison
Nation is a touring exhibit of historic posters that focus
on the reality of the prison-industrial-complex as practiced
in The Golden State. The show travels to five other venues
in California’s San Joaquin Valley and Inland Empire areas
over the course of the next two years.
From
Equinox to Solstice: Reflections on a Mayan Calendar
La
Galeria Gitana - City of San Fernando, California
October
27, 2012 through December 21, 2012
I
premiered my oil painting, Spirit
of Aztlán, at the exhibition. Curated by Los
Angeles painter Raoul de la Sota, the group exhibit explored
themes surrounding two important calendar events from ancient
Mesoamerica - the Aztec Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
and the end of the Maya calendar.
Faraway,
So Close: Photographs of Los Angeles in the '80s
Morono
Kiang Gallery
February
4, 2012 through March 31, 2012
I
exhibited six never before shown photos at Faraway, So
Close, a group exhibition of photographs on the theme
of Los Angeles as it existed between the years 1980 and 1989.
Running from February 4, 2012, to March 31, 2012, the exhibit
also featured works by Sara Jane Boyers, Edward Colver, Willie
Middlebrook, Ann Summa, May Sun, Shervin Shahbazi, and Richard
Wyatt. Read
more about the exhibit here.
Read the Los
Angeles Times review of the exhibit.
Gallery
of California Art
Permanent Collection
Oakland
Museum of California Art.
A
reproduction of my artwork, No
Human Being Is Illegal,
is included in the Gallery of California History at the Oakland
Museum of California. The museum placed my artwork in its
new "California: To Be Continued" gallery wing, which opened
to the public on September 30, 2011. An original print of
No Human Being Is Illegal has also been incorporated
into the museum's permanent collection.
Under
the Big Black Sun:
California Art 1974 - 1981
Geffen
Contemporary MOCA Los Angeles.
October 1, 2011 through February 13, 2012
A
comprehensive survey of California artists during an extraordinary
period of American history. My 1980 silkscreen poster, Whatever
Happened To The Future! is included in the exhibition
and also the exhibit catalog. Artists include Carlos Almaraz,
John Baldessari, Juan Cervantes and Royal Chicano Air Force,
Judy Chicago, Bruce Conner, Llyn Foulkes, Gronk, Suzanne Lacy,
Malaquías Montoya, Gary Panter, Herbert Sigüenza, Bruce Nauman,
Masami Teraoka, and others too numerous to list.
The
New World Border
Travelling
exhibition
2011 - Present
The
exhibit is a collection of linoleum cuts, silk-screens, monoprints,
offset and digital prints created by thirty artists from around
the U.S. opposed to the construction of a giant "security"
wall along the U.S./Mexico border. New
World Border
has been shown at venues from Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah,
to exhibit spaces in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and
Missouri. At the end of 2012 an entire suite of prints from
the show was acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress for
that body’s impressive permanent collection. My 1988 print
Ningun ser Humano es Ilegal (No Human Being is Illegal)
is included in the exhibit.
Peace
Press Graphics 1967-1987:
Art in the Pursuit of Social Change
University
Art Museum, California State University Long Beach.
September 10 to December 11, 2011
An
showing of over 100 historic posters and flyers published
by Peace Press, a now defunct Los Angeles collective that
ran a professional print shop serving the local and national
needs of radical and progressive political groups and organizations.
I have six artworks in the exhibit, and four additional graphic
works in the exhibit catalog. Artists in the show include
the likes of Robert Crumb and Rupert García. The exhibit is
part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art
in L.A. 1945 - 1980, the largest collaborative art project
in Southern California history.
¡ADELANTE!
Mexican-American Artists:
1960s and Beyond
Forest
Lawn Museum.
September 9, 2011 through January 1, 2012.
A
major exhibit exploring Chicano art. Paintings, drawings,
prints, sculptures, and photographs of some forty artists.
I am showing two oil paintings created especially for the
show, "Libros No Bombas" (Books Not Bombs), and "La Causa"
(The Cause). Co-exhibitors include the likes of Judy Baca;
Barbara Carrasco; Margaret García; Ignacio Gomez; Wayne Healy;
Leo Limón; Frank Romero; Patssi Valdez, and a host of others.
A few of the works on view are from the Cheech Marin Collection,
one of the most important private collections of Chicano art
in the United States.
Art
For Haiti - Group Show
José
Vera Fine Art Gallery.
February 5-28, 2011
A
month long exhibition of artworks related to the people, culture,
and history of Haiti. I submitted a 23 x 25 inch black and
white drawing titled, Uproot. The artwork was used
by the gallery to promote the exhibit. Proceeds from the sale
of artworks were used to provide direct material aid to the
Haitian people, who are still suffering from the devastating
2010 earthquake.
Signs
Petition: Artists Against BP funding
The
Guardian: June 28, 2010 edition.
In protest of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and
in opposition to BP funding arts institutions like the Tate
Britain and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, I put my
name to a petition published in the letters section of Britain’s
Guardian on June 28, 2010. The appeal was signed by 170 other
international arts professionals including Hans Haacke and
Lucy R. Lippard. Artinfo described the petition as an "Army
of Art-World Protesters Against BP Funding."
Interviewed
by WARP Magazine
July
2010 edition.
WARP, the Spanish language glossy magazine from Mexico that
focuses on the international contemporary music scene, arts,
culture, cinema, and more, conducted an interview with me
that appeared in the monthly’s July 2010 print edition.
2010
Lectures on David Alfaro Siqueiros
Multiple
venues.
In September, October, and November of 2010, I delivered three
separate lectures on the Mexican muralist, David Alfaro Siqueiros;
"A Print Dialogue: Siqueiros & The Graphic Arts." (Sept. 18th
at the Center For The Arts in Eagle Rock, California. Panel
discussion sponsored by the Autry Museum and organized by
the José Vera Gallery). "Siqueiros & the Mexican School of
Social Realism." (Oct. 23 lecture at the José Vera Gallery).
"David Alfaro Siqueiros & the 'Bloc of Painters' - American
Social Realism in the 1930s." (Nov. 6 lecture at the Mexican
Cultural Institute in L.A., California).
365
& Counting
Avenue
50 Studio. Highland Park, California.
Nov. 14 - Dec. 6, 2009
A group exhibit that provided insights into the first year
of the Obama Administration. Issues of race, class, war, health
care, the environment and the economy, plus other global challenges
- were explored in this timely exhibition of works by 15 Los
Angeles artists. Given the escalating war in Afghanistan,
I created a new oil painting especially for the show - a depiction
of a prisoner held in Bagram Prison, Afghanistan.
Dia
de los Muertos - Day of the Dead -
Group show
Bakersfield
Museum of Art.
Sept. 17 - Nov. 22, 2009
I exhibited two oil paintings in this group show of nine artists,
featuring the prints of Mexican master printmaker, José Guadalupe
Posada.
Chicana/Chicano
Biennial - Group show
MACLA Gallery San Jose, California.
June 5 - Aug. 8, 2009
I exhibited with 19 other artists including, Juan Fuentes,
Yolanda M. López and Margarita Cabrera; exploring the theme
of Chicano art in the U.S. today.
Man's
Inhumanity To Man - Group
show
Brand Library Gallery & Art Center Glendale,
California.
April 4 - May 8, 2009
Forty four artists participated in the exhibit, which examined
human rights violations that have occurred around the globe
- the 1915 Armenian genocide, the Jewish Holocaust, repression
in Central America, current atrocities in Darfur, and more.
Azalea Iñiguez of Telemundo T52 - the L.A. affiliate of the
second largest Spanish-language TV network in the U.S., interviewed
me
on her Cambiando el Mundo (Changing the World) segment of
May 6, 2009. The interview took place at the Brand Gallery.
War
& Empire: The Art of Democracy -
Group show
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Sept. 4 - Nov. 4, 2008.
I exhibited with Fernando Botero, Sandow Birk, Guy Colwell,
Art Hazelwood, Bella Feldman, William T. Wiley, and others.
The
exhibit
was a collective statement on the political situation in the
United States during the run up to the presidential elections.
Fundamental
- Traveling European exhibit.
Group show with multiple venues
Sept. 2007 - June 2008
Fundamental is an international touring art exhibition that
explores the prickly subject of fundamental religious intolerance
at the turn of the 21st century. My painting, A People Under
Command, is included in the exhibit, which tours four European
cities, Manchester, England - Madrid, Spain - Berlin, Germany
- Leeds, England.
Angels &
Demons: Blessed or Possessed
A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
Nov. 2007 - Jan. 2008
The gallery asked me to jury their exhibit on the topic of
spiritual good and evil. Co-jurors: Francisco Letelier, artist;
Carol Wells, dir. Ctr. for Study of Political Graphics.
Dia
de los Muertos
2nd City Council Art Gallery and Performance Space, Long Beach,
California.
October - November 2007
The 2nd City Council Gallery asked me to jury their Day of
the Dead exhibit.
30TH
Anniversary DVD release of "Sid & Nancy" film
Interviewed for DVD bonus featurette - "For the Love of
Punk"
October 2007
Appearance on DVD special feature accompanying "Sid & Nancy",
Alex Cox's film about Sex Pistols' anti-hero Sid Vicious and
his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen. The invitation to play
a role in the feature documentary was based upon my participation
as an artist in the early LA punk scene.
Religion,
Politics and Society
Lake Arrowhead Gallery & Museum of Art, Sky Forest, California.
May - July 2007
I exhibited several paintings alongside artworks by John Paul
Thornton, Dolores Guerrero-Torres, Paul Batou, and others
in this group exhibit.
Utopia
A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
Nov - Dec. 2006
I juried this group exhibit along with Mark Greenfield, Director
of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and Alice Wexler,
author and biographer of Emma Goldman. The show's theme was
"earthly dreams of paradise and possibility."
Spirit
of the Children
Avenue 50 Studio. Highland Park, Los Angeles, California.
Oct - Nov, 2006
An unusual "Day of the Dead" group exhibit that paid homage
to the children of the world who have died from preventable
causes. My painting, War Child, was created specifically
for this exhibit.
Chicano:
Pronouncing Diversity
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock California.
Sept - Nov. 2006
A group exhibit celebrating established and emerging Chicano
artists. Curated by Gilbert "Magú" Luján (RIP).
At Work:
The Art of California Labor
Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
June - Aug. 2006
At
Work: The Art of California Labor was a group
show that focused on the subject of California's rich labor
history since the turn of the 20th century. Some of the fifty
artists in the exhibit include Diego Rivera, Tina Modotti,
Dorothea Lange, Ester Hernandez, Yolanda Lopez, and Malaquias
Montoya. I unveiled a new oil painting created especially
for this exhibit.
The
New Normalcy
Carlotta's Passion Fine Art, Eagle Rock, California.
February - March, 2006
The
New Normalcy
was a group exhibit that examined the post 9-11 world. Others
in the show included Robbie Conal, Margaret Garcia, Francisco
Letelier, and Gilbert "Magú" Luján.
Something
Newd
Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, California.
February - March, 2006
Curated by J. Michael Walker, the exhibit was dedicated to
"thoughtful meditations on the human figure." I created a
suite of mono-prints specifically for this group show.
Don't
Talk About Religion or Politics
Group exhibit curated for Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park,
California.
Jan - Feb. 2006
I curated and exhibited in, Don't
Talk About Religion or Politics, a group show for
Avenue 50 Studio. The exhibit presented artworks with controversial
spiritual and political themes. The show included artists
John Paul Thornton, Poli Marichal, Gwyneth Leech, and Sergio
Hernandez.
Both
Sides of the Border
Carlotta's Passion Fine Art, Eagle Rock, California.
Nov - Dec. 2005
A major group exhibition of Latin American and Chicano art.
The show included works by Francisco Zuniga, Jean Charlot,
Wilfedo Lam, Gronk, Patssi Valdez, Margaret Garcia, Frank
Romero, Gilbert "Magú" Luján, and Diane Gamboa.
Demise
of Democracy?
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) Long Beach,
California.
Nov. 2005
A juried group show that presented works questioning the status
of democracy in the US.
Conflict:
Works on Paper
Juried group exhibit. Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale,
California.
Dec. 05 - Jan, 2006
Both of my submitted entries won awards for excellence, at
the Thirty-Fourth Annual National Exhibition at the L.C. Brand
Gallery in Glendale, California.
Workers
of the World
A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
Nov - Dec. 2005
I displayed several paintings at this group exhibition dedicated
to the theme of workers - from their struggles to survive
to their labors of love.
Emerging
From Aztlán
dA Center for the Arts, Pomona California.
Oct - Nov, 2005
Third annual Chicano art show held at the dA Center for the
Arts in Pomona, California.
Dia
de los Muertos: The Journey Home
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois.
Sept - Dec, 2005
The museum selected my painting, Dia de los Muertos,
for inclusion in its annual Day of the Dead art exhibit.
Journal
of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) #20, Fall 2004
The semiannual publication of the American Studies Association
of Turkey, JAST publishes work in English by scholars of various
nationalities on the subject of American art and culture.
In his article, Southern California Artists Challenge America,
Paul Von Blum referred to me as "A key figure in Southern
Californian socially conscious art."
Elect
This!
SPARC Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
Sept 11th. - Nov 2nd. 2004
Curated by Judy Baca, this group show focused on the issues
of war, human rights, and the US elections.
YO!
What Happened To Peace?
International Traveling Exhibit, multiple venues, 2004.
An ongoing traveling exhibit of antiwar prints curated by
artist, John Carr. The show has been displayed at multiple
venues in L.A., Boston, New York, and Chicago, as well as
openings in Tokyo, Japan, Milan, Italy, and several Scandinavian
cities. Some of the artists in the exhibit included Eric Drooker,
Poli Marichal, Seth Tobocman, and Winston Smith. My works
were also published in the accompanying exhibition catalogue,
"YO! What Happened To Peace?"
Mark
Vallen: More Than A Witness
Solo exhibit. A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
July - Aug, 2004
Retrospective exhibit encompassing thirty years of work. Respected
author Paul Von Blum (The Critical Vision - A History of
Social and Political Art in the US and Other Voices,
Other Visions: Women Political Artists in Los Angeles),
writes the exhibit catalog. The LA Times Magazine covers the
show in their Aug. 22nd edition.
Wild
In The Streets
Autry National Center/Museum of the American West, Los Angeles,
California.
June 18th 2004
A one day special exhibit to coincide with the museum's "Wild
in the Streets" punk rock summer concert. Some of my early
punk rock artworks, including LA Weekly and Slash magazine
cover illustrations, are displayed alongside drawings by Raymond
Pettibon.
Peace
Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated
Gustavo Gili Publisher. Released Nov 2004
My drawing, Not Our Children, Not Their Children, was selected
for publication in this collection of antiwar artworks compiled
by Spain's leading graphic design and architectural publisher,
Gustavo Gili.
Dissenting
Views - Calendar
Released January 2004
Editors of the 49th Annual Calendar released by the War Resisters
League selected my drawing, Not Our Children, Not Their
Children, for publication. Also chosen as featured artist
in the calendar against war and violence, were artists Sue
Coe, Judy Chicago, Nancy Spero, Stephen Kroninger, and Milton
Glaser.
War
Stories
A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
Nov. 2003 - Jan. 2004
Group exhibit of artworks that focused on the horror and folly
of war. My entry, a pencil drawing titled We're making
a killing in Central America, was awarded an honorable
mention prize.
30
Years of Chicano Printmaking & Social Justice
Self Help Graphics & Art, East Los Angeles, California.
Oct. 2003 Group exhibit of artworks that focused on issues
of social concern. I exhibited alongside artists Ricardo Duffy,
Victor Ochoa, Yreina Cervantez, and others.
Light
Among Shadows
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California.
July - Aug 2003
Group exhibit celebrating human rights activism throughout
North and South America. I exhibited alongside artists, Judy
Baca, J. Michael Walker, Francisco Letelier, and others.
Reaching
To Embrace Arts
Inshallah Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
July 2003
Special exhibit and auction of artworks to raise money for
programs promoting youth arts education in the L.A. Unified
School District. I exhibited alongside artists, Ricardo Duardo,
John van Hamersveld, MearOne, Mick Haggerty, and others.
Ready
for War
University Galleries of Illinois State University, Chicago,
Illinois.
March 2003
I exhibited several works in this group exhibit that focused
on antiwar statements. Nearly 100 artists from across the
United States contributed pieces to the show.
The
Art of Punk
Kantor Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
February - March 2003
The premiere exhibit for the new Kantor Gallery in Los Angeles,
this group exhibit presented my artworks from the heyday of
L.A.'s punk rock scene. My original drawings and cover illustrations
for SLASH magazine were exhibited alongside works by Raymond
Pettibon, Emek, and Dave Leamon.
The
Antiwar Artshow: The Price of Intervention from Korea to Iraq
Track 16 Gallery. Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica,
California.
Jan - Feb 2003
One of my silkscreen prints from the early 1980s was included
in this exhibit of historic antiwar posters designed by professional
and amateur artists alike.
Expressions
Without Borders
El Pueblo Art Gallery, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California.
July - Sept, 2002
I exhibited at this major Chicano art show at L.A.'s El Pueblo
Historical Monument. Sponsored by the Mexican Cultural Institute
and L.A. Council member Alex Padilla.
Just
Another Poster?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California
Traveling museum show, multiple venues.
June 2001 - Sept 2003
My works were included in this exhibit of Chicano poster art
collected from the late 1960s to the present. Fifty different
artists are represented in the exhibition including Rupert
Garcia, Gilbert "Magú" Luján, Diane Gamboa, Yreina Cervantez,
Richard Duardo, Carlos Almaraz, and many others. The show
opened at UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History (June 2001),
and traveled to the Oakland Museum of California, the Merced
Multicultural Arts Center, the Jersey City Museum, and finally
the Crocker Art Museum and La Raza/Galeria Posada in Sacramento
California.
We
Shall Not Be Moved: Posters, Gentrification and Resistance
UCLA Downtown Labor Center, Los Angeles, California.
October 14th - November 10th, 2002.
My serigraphs were included in this traveling exhibit of posters
showing the plight of the homeless and diverse housing issues.
Organized by the Los Angeles' Center for the Study of Political
Graphics.
The
Path of Resistance - group
exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York.
Nov. 2000 - Jan. 2001.
Two of my serigraphs were included in this exhibition of contemporary
protest art held at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in
2000. The exhibit traced 40 years of socially critical and
politically charged art. Organized by Joshua Siegal and Susan
Kismaric, The Path of Resistance was itself part of
MoMA's "Open Ends," an exhibit cycle marking the millennium
that consisted of eleven different exhibits of art from the
1960s to the 1990s.
Center
for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) receives Vallen
Portfolio - 1999
Thirty eight of my posters and drawings are made part of the
permanent collection of the CSPG archive. The center collects,
preserves, documents and circulates domestic and international
political posters promoting social awareness. The CSPG has
over 50,000 individual works in its collection and mounts
frequent regional, national, and international exhibitions.
Los
Angeles: At the Center and on the Edge
Leband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,
California.
July - September 1997
A group exhibition of poster art detailing the unique political
history of the City of Los Angeles. Aside from having works
in the exhibit, I also gave a slide lecture on Sept 24th that
detailed my role as an L.A. artist.
Twenty-Fifth
Annual Works on Paper
Southwest Texas State University Art Gallery, San Marcos,
Texas.
February 1995
I exhibited artworks at this International Group show of works
on paper juried by Lucy Lippard.
Twenty-Forth
Annual Works on Paper
Southwest Texas State University Art Gallery, San Marcos,
Texas.
February 1994
I exhibited artworks at this International Group show of works
on paper juried by Lucy Lippard.
History
is a People's Memory
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Santa Monica,
California.
March 6th - April 17th, 1993
I displayed original works at this group exhibition celebrating
the legacy of Malcolm X. Also included in the show were works
by Sue Coe and Emory Douglas. Historic posters from the collections
of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG),
and the Alden and Mary Kimbrough Collection were also on display.
Mark
Vallen - A Decade of Art Activism
Artsquad Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania.
May - June 1993
Solo exhibit of my posters and drawings created over a span
of ten years.
International
Institute of Social History (IISG) receives Vallen Portfolio
- 1993
Some of my selected works are introduced into this important
historical archive. The Dutch "International Instituut Voor
Sociale Geschiedenis" is an independent organization founded
in 1935. Its libraries and archives hold one of the world's
most important collections of material from the Labor Movement.
The IISG Poster collection comprises over 40,000 pieces, from
the 19th Century to the present. The collection is cataloged
and many works are available for study and exhibition.
Quincentennial
Project on Resistance and Survival
- Group Exhibit
Green Dragon Gallery, Santa Barbara, California. Sept. 1992.
UCSB Community Services Center, Santa Barbara, California.
October 1992. Group exhibition celebrating the history and
culture of Native Americans.
High
Performance Magazine for the New Arts - 1992
"The Verdict and the Violence" Special Summer Edition
publishes three of my illustrations condemning violence and
racial oppression in the aftermath of the April 29th "Rodney
King" riots that swept Los Angeles.
Art
Commissioned by the Guatemalan Information Center - 1989
The Guatemalan Information Center (GIC) of Los Angeles commissioned
me to create a monumental chalk pastel drawing titled "Voices
of Justice." The image was published as a full color poster
that announced a GIC event held in the Council Chambers of
Los Angeles City Hall. The GIC event, a public forum designed
to bring attention to the human rights situation in Guatemala,
was the first of its kind in the United States.
Ningun
ser Humano es Ilegal - self published street poster, 1988
Self-published a signature work, Ningun ser Humano es Ilegal
(No Human Being is Illegal), as a widely distributed bilingual
street poster.
Works
published in: "Frieden Und Umwelt - Politische Plakatkunst
Aus Den USA." - 1988
Four of my poster works were included in "Peace and Environment
- Political Posters from the USA," an art book of American
posters published by the German Institute for International
Assistance and Solidarity (IFIAS.) Other artists displayed
in the book include, Rupert Garcia, Rene Castro, Lincoln Cushing,
and Doug Minkler.
End
of the Rainbow - Sisters of Survival
Traveling group exhibit. Multiple venues. February - March
1984
A number of my posters were in this exhibit, which also included
entries from artists all across the U.S. and Western Europe.
Organized by the L.A. based art/performance group "Sisters
of Survival" (S.O.S.), the exhibit opened July 1983 at the
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice California.
The show traveled to the Franklin Furnace Gallery in New York,
the Student Union Gallery at the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
and finally on to the Powerhouse Gallery in Montreal, Canada.
Exhibiting artists included Jerry Kearns, Richard Duardo,
Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, and Judy Baca.
Slash
Magazine - Cover Illustration, 1980
I created the cover illustration for the very last issue of
the publication, which hit the newsstands in 1980. The work,
"Come Back To Haunt You," helped to spawn the Mohawk
haircut craze in L.A.
L.A.
Weekly publishes Cover Illustration - 1980
My serigraphic print, "Nuclear War? There goes my Career!"
is published as the cover art for the L.A. Weekly. A mawkish
Situationist inspired parody of Roy Lichtenstein's cartoon
based imagery, my artwork addressed the rising fear of nuclear
war. At the close of the 20th century, New York's Museum of
Modern Art would exhibit this poster in, The Path of Resistance,
MoMA's examination of politically charged art from the 1960s
to the late 1990s.
L.A.
Weekly publishes Cover Illustration - 1980
My serigraphic print, "Whatever happened to the Future?"
is published as the cover art for the L.A. Weekly. The artwork
illustrated an article on the sense of hopelessness and malaise
then gripping the nation.
Slash
Magazine - Cover Illustration, 1979
Punk music magazine publishes first Vallen cover Illustration
The premiere punk rock publication in the U.S. in the late
1970s was SLASH magazine. My pencil drawing of Sue Tissue,
lead singer for the band, Suburban Lawns, was released as
a cover for SLASH. The drawing was later published in the
book, "Hardcore California".
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