Medium: Serigraph (32 colors)
Year: 2010
Image Size: 30.5 x 46 inches
Notes: deckled edges, printed to sheet edge
Frank Romero created this print to depict an event where the Palateros, or ice cream vendor, were arrested in Echo Park for not having permits. Many of his works touch on social justice issues, as well as Chicano life and car culture in East Los Angeles.
Romero'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.
