JACE is inspired by illustration plates dating from 1971, the ones originally intended to teach young French students how to be a model citizen. These images were meant to describe the best roles that children and parents should take: a mother always wearing a permanent-smile, a father being the dominant male/person in the household, and [...]
Rupert Garcia And Ian McDonald At Rena Bransten Gallery
Rupert Garcia’s vintage works will include silk-screen images made during the turbulent 1960’s and 70’s, a time when political, social, and cultural questions were being addressed in the visual media via protest posters and prints. His images reference art, Mexican American history, advertising and consumer iconography, the Vietnam War, and the Mexican Revolution. As with [...]
