Patssi Valdez

The artist that mos intrigued me was Patssi Valdez. This was because she takes Chicana art a whole new revolutionary meaning. I fell in love with her audacity to be different even within her Chicana identity which reflected onto her art. For example as my classmate was explaining to us the image above in which she is performing a piece in which she is being taped to the wall, I found myself baffled by the "action" of her being in that position. This is because this gives me an incite into the realities of the Chican@ movement. For most of my knowledge of the Chican@ movement, I often hear about male artists within the movement. To see Patssi and her art work demystified the notions that the Chican@ "artivist" movement was male dominated. With her co-founding of ASCO and the various series of works it spoke to my own artistic identity since I see myself in a lot of her work. She seems to portray something out of the norm which is a greater form of revolution as I see it, something I aspire to do in any way everyday. She gave me a sense of "comfort" in knowing that someone out of the norm was praised.