Yreina Cervantez
Victoria Ocelotl, 1983
Serigraph, Edition 34 of 77
34 x 22 in.

Yreina D. Cervantez, a Chicana artist, was born in 1952 in Garden City, Kansas, but grew up near San Diego, CA. She is an American painter, printmaker, muralist, and teacher. Yreina received her B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and later went on to earn her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. She is also currently the multicultural coordinator at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Yreina's other areas of main interest are visual arts, Chicana/o Art, and Xicana feminist art and aesthetics. Yreina Cervantez is currently an Associate Professor of Chicano/a Studies at the California State University, Northridge. Drawing heavily from her cultural heritage, Yreina Cervantez has become prominent and well respected amongst other Chicana/o artists. She is particularly known for her various self-portraits of Chicana identity, as well as murals that depict struggles within the Chicano/a movement. Some of her most favorite artwork includes La Ofrenda, Homenaje a Frida Kahlo, and her 1995 Nepantla lithograph triptych. Yreina Cervantez has also been featured in art exhibitions, such as From El Corazon de East L.A , Just Another Poster?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California, and 30 Years of Chicano Printmaking & Social Justice.

Leo Limon
LA Ozone Burns II, 1987
Serigraph, Edition 35 of 45
13 x 28 in.

Leo Limon is an artist and community activist who lives and works in Los Angeles. During the early years of the Chicano art movement he was involved with Mechicano Art Center, Plaza de la Raza, and Centro de Arte Publico. Limon is widely recognized for his murals and prints, many created at Self Help Graphics and Art, where he helped develop the organization's annual Dia de los Muertos celebration and the Atelier printmaking program. He has worked tirelessly as a youth advocate who has reached thousands of at-risk Los Angeles youth using his art to intervene in the gang violence of Los Angeles..

Sonia Romero
Eat Your Poridge, 2005
Serigraph, Edition 8 of 69
26 x 20 in.

"Sonia Romero is a Los Angeles artist known for her paper-cut and printmaking aesthetics which she incorporates into both her fine art and public art commissions. Born in 1980, she grew up in an artistic household in Echo Park before formally studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. After returning to California, she began working as a public artist, and was the artist in residence at Avenue 50 Studio in Northeast Los Angeles from 2007-2014.

Calling upon her own experiences and perspectives as a multiracial person, Romero creates work that reflects the cultural diversity found in the communities of Los Angeles. She explores themes relating to the universal connectedness within humanity as well as its relationship to the environment. Her signature style, a dynamic combination of printmaking, paper-cutting, painting, and sculpture, includes fine art pieces that have been showcased in many galleries and acquired into the collections of prominent institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. Her distinctive paper-cut shapes and patterns can be found in steel, tile, or paint in one of her many large-scale permanent installations in notable locations such as Little Tokyo, the Mariachi Plaza and MacArthur Park Metro Stations and the Artesia County Public Library."

Miguel Angel Reyes
The Search, 2010
Multi-Media Monoprint Serigraph, Edition 1 of 1
26 x 20 in.

Miguel was born in 1964 in Colima, Mexico. He was drawn to art early in his life, and graduated from Otis Parsons School of Design in 1987 with a BFA in fine art. After a short sojourn into the fashion industry following graduation, Reyes pursued painting, and today makes his living doing portraits, teaching, illustrating books and taking on occasional public art project commissions.
Reyes' work incorporates expressionist brushwork and the saturated palette of the classic latin tradition. His art has been exhibited throughout the United States, and has been published many magazines. Miguel has created murals for the Los Angeles MTA, and his work is in the collections of LACMA print collections, Laguna Art Museum, Watts Towers Arts Center, University of Austin, TX, and Fine Arts gallery Museum, Chicago.

Pavel Acevedo
Turtle Land/ Tierra de Tortuga, 2021
Serigraph, Edition 12 of 16
40 x 30 in.

According to the Zapotec story, La Tortuga (the turtle) asked a vulture to carry him to meet the Gods. The vulture agreed, but the turtle consistently complained about the vulture's foul odor during the trip. Annoyed and tired from the turtle's comments, the vulture dropped the turtle from high above, causing the turtle's shell to break into a hundred pieces. The Gods felt pity for the turtle and mended the pieces with resin from the Tule tree, creating the mosaic-like shell we see today.

In this case, the image of the turtle symbolizes a compass, documenting the four cardinal directions, setting the tone for the exhibition. North is represented by feathered nahuales (mythical creatures half-human-half animal), pine needles, and the turtle's head peeking above ground. East and West are blanketed by foliage and water, while blue waves and aquatic nahuales surround the South.

From Oaxaca, Mexico, and moving to California in 2010, much of Acevedo's art incorporates themes and imagery depicting the migratory experience in California. As a relief printmaker, utilizing plywood and linoleum surfaces, he creates portraits of friends, the pre-hispanic codex, and other images that depict the diverse multitudes found in the city. Through the use of portraits and imagery, both new and old, he is able to invent a conversation that is neither Mexican nor American, but rather a contemporary reality that reflects his unique life.

Acevedo attended the School of Fine Arts Oaxaca (Escuela de Bellas Artes) and participated in different art workshops at the "Rufino Tamayo workshop." In 2010 he moved to California, where he continues to live and work today. Although his art has led him to many locations across the country, his studio, Urge Palette Art Supplies, is in Riverside, and he tends to create most of his art in East Los Angeles. Many of his pieces can be seen in murals and streets around Riverside, as well as in the Riverside Art Museum.

Salomon Huerta
Maria Felix, 2000
Monoprint Serigraph, Ed. of 1
26 x 20 in.

Salomon Huerta is a painter based in California, born in Mexico. He grew up in the Boyle Heights Projects in East Los Angeles. Huerta obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree at UCLA in 1998. He gained critical acclaim and commercial attention in the late '90's for his minimalist portraits of the backs of people's heads and color saturated depictions of domestic urban architecture. He was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the United States, Europe, and Latin America such as The Gagosian Gallery in London, England and Studio La Citta in Verona, Italy.