‘Tastemakers & Earthshakers’ at Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, California
Vincent Valdez, Kill the Pachuco Bastard, 2001, oil on canvas.
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Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes from Los Angeles Youth Culture, 1943 – 2016” is on view at Vincent Price Art Museum in Monterey Park, California through Saturday, February 25. The group exhibition, which includes work by 35 artists, looks at eight decades of youth culture, specifically Chicano and Latino culture, in the L.A. area. The show takes the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, in which white American servicemen attacked Mexican American youths who wore zoot suits, as its starting point.

- Humberto Sandoval, Still from Sr. Tereshkova, 1975, sepia tone photograph on paper.
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- Gregory Bojorquez, Rocking Out At The Roxy, Sunset Strip, 2010, archival pigment print.
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- U.S. armed forces personnel with wooden clubs on street during “zoot suit” riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943.
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- Jack A. Herod, “Girls, asserted members of what police officials described as the ‘black widow’ girls’ gang, shown as they prepared to get into police car”, 1942.
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- Patrick Martinez, vintage throwback po-lice, 2016, acrylic, Bic pen and Wite-Out on panel.
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