The multidisciplinary exhibition Xican–a.o.x. Body, organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Phoenix Art Museum, focuses on the formative and hugely influential contributions to contemporary art made by Chicanx (Gender neutral and queer inclusive of Chicano/a) artists working in the United States from the 1970s to the present. This exhibition, which features more than 200 works of art by approximately 80 artists, aims to add complexity to understandings of Chicanx art and culture by exploring the conceptual and experimental nature of visual practices that foreground the body as the site in which imagination and political enunciation are articulated.
Xican–a.o.x. Body
Fabian Guerrero, Jose in front of Laundromat, Lynwood, CA, 2017.
From the series Brown Queer Rancheros. Photograph, 16 x 20 in.
Collection of the artist, Los Angeles, CA, Courtesy American Federation of Arts.
Ricardo Valverde, Boulevard Night, 1979/91.
Gelatin silver print with hand-applied pigment
12 x 15 in. Collection of Esperanza Valverde and Christopher J. Valverde, Los Angeles, CA.
Courtesy American Federation of Arts.
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