Carlos Almaraz
Painter · Centro de Arte Público
1941–1989
Painter and a founding figure of Centro de Arte Público. Bejarano assisted him on the fifty-foot City Scape mural on Floral Drive in East Los Angeles in 1980. The archive holds four works by Almaraz and a letter he wrote to Bejarano.
William Marquez Bejarano
Painter, muralist · Centro de Arte Público
Member of Centro de Arte Público 1976–1980 and co-publisher of ChismeArte. He signed his work of this period Guillermo Bejarano, and the collective’s rosters carry that name. This archive is his.
Barbara Carrasco
Painter, muralist · Centro de Arte Público
Painter and muralist associated with Centro de Arte Público and with the United Farm Workers.
Richard Duardo
Printmaker · Centro de Arte Público
1952–2014
Master printer, often called the “Andy Warhol of the East Side.” Two of his prints are in the collection.
Dolores Guerrero-Cruz
Painter · Centro de Arte Público
Painter associated with Centro de Arte Público. Photographed at work in the archive.
Judithe Hernández
Painter, muralist · Centro de Arte Público
Painter and muralist, and the only woman member of the collective Los Four.
Leo Limón
Painter, printmaker · Centro de Arte Público
Painter and printmaker. Photographed alongside Bejarano in the archive; two of his works are in the collection.
John Valadez
Painter, muralist · Centro de Arte Público
Painter and muralist known for large-scale pastel works of Los Angeles street life. His poster Prosperity is in the archive.
Frank Romero
Painter · Los Four, associate of Centro de Arte Público
Painter, member of Los Four. Two works from his Crosses series are in the collection.
Roberto Gil de Montes
Painter · Centro de Arte Público
Painter associated with Centro de Arte Público.
No material catalogued yet.
George Yepes
Painter, muralist · Centro de Arte Público
Painter and muralist associated with Centro de Arte Público.
No material catalogued yet.
Victor Manuel Valle
Writer, editor · Centro de Arte Público
Writer and editor associated with Centro de Arte Público and ChismeArte.
Artists in the collection
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Gilbert “Magu” Luján
Painter, sculptor · Los Four
Named on the Centro de Arte Público page as an associate of the collective.
No material catalogued yet.
Leonard Castellanos
Printmaker · Méchicano Art Center
Printmaker at the Méchicano Art Center. Two of his screenprints are in the archive.
Carmen Lomas Garza
Painter, printmaker
Painter and printmaker. Nopalitos Frescos is in the collection.
Ester Hernández
Printmaker
Printmaker. One work in the collection.
Linda Vallejo
Painter, sculptor
Painter and sculptor; her Galería Las Américas hosted Bejarano in the 1995 group show Sol de Verano. Deity, 1979, is in the collection.
René Yañez
Artist, curator
1942–2021
Artist and curator, a central figure in the Bay Area Día de los Muertos tradition. One work in the collection.
Painter. One work in the collection.
Roberto de la Rocha
Painter · Los Four
Painter, member of Los Four. His self-portrait was in the collection.
Carlos Bueno
Artist · Self-Help Graphics
Artist, a co-founder of Self-Help Graphics & Art.
Claes Oldenburg
Sculptor
1929–2022
Sculptor. Derelict is in the collection.
Abigail Heyman
Photographer
1942–2013
Photographer. One work in the collection.
Mayan Girl is in the collection.
Tiburcio Vásquez is in the collection.
Ismael “Smily” Cazarez
Sculptor
California coastal walnut sculpture, 2014, in the collection.
Gizel Vicente Osuna
Artist
One work in the collection.
Jesús Álvarez Amaya
Printmaker · Director, Taller de Gráfica Popular
Director of the Taller de Gráfica Popular in Mexico City. Two works in the collection.
Ángel Bracho “Huicho”
Printmaker · Taller de Gráfica Popular
1911–2005
Printmaker of the Taller de Gráfica Popular. One work in the collection.
No material catalogued yet.
Javier Íñiguez
Printmaker · Taller de Gráfica Popular
La Pastorlera is in the collection.
Guillermo Deisler
Poet, mail artist
1940–1995
Chilean visual poet, author of Poesía Visiva en el Mundo, published through Ediciones OVUM in Montevideo. His 1976 sheet le monde comme il va is in the mail-art collection.
John Van Hamersveld
Graphic designer
Los Angeles graphic designer. One poster in the archive.
Octavio Romano
Publisher · Quinto Sol Publications
1923–2005
Anthropologist and publisher of Quinto Sol, the press that launched much of early Chicano literature. He wrote a poem in response to Bejarano’s Woman by the Stream.
No material catalogued yet.