Medium: Serigraph
Edition of 74
Year: 2012
Image Size: 24 x 30 inches
Judithe Hernández (born 1948 in Los Angeles) is a Chicana artist and a founding member of the Chicano Art movement and the Los Angeles Mural movement. She first received acclaim in the 1970s as a muralist. Hernández has lived both in Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles. In 1974, she became the "fifth member", and only woman, in Los Four, an influential East Los Angeles Chicano artist collective, along with Gilbert Luján, Carlos Almaraz, Frank E. Romero, and Roberto de la Rocha.
Hernandez's work is currently part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition:
¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
By employing diverse visual and artistic modes from satire, to portraiture, appropriation, conceptualism, and politicized pop, the artists in this exhibition build an enduring and inventive graphic tradition that is only now being fully integrated into the history of U.S. printmaking.
