This is the blog for the UCLA Chicanx Latinx Art and Artists course offered by the Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicanx Central American Studies (CCAS M175, also Art M184 and World Arts and Cultures M128). This course provides a historical and contemporary overview of Chicanx Latinx art production with an emphasis on painting, photography, prints, murals and activist art.
Carmen Loma Garza is known for works that celebrate the everyday activities and traditions of her family and Latino community. This idea of images that represent the realities of the Mexican American community as well as racial, economical, and educational disparities. I also enjoy how Garza portrays a different artistic development that explores her imagination of an imagined world. In this painting, Heaven and Hell, Garza presents parallel worlds. On the top part of the painting, figures dance to music provided by a band. But below hell is depicted with chained figures picking up stones for eternity, surrounded by flames. There is a window that allows these figures in hell to view the world that they would never be able to be part of. I enjoy this painting of Garza because it explores the inner workings, desires, and basic beliefs of her own mind. She recognizes the importance of illustrating her own identity.
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