Now on view until the end of August at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture is the #WarholFoundation funded exhibition, “Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory.” Organized by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the exhibition is the first major retrospective to explore the historically significant work and career of Amalia Mesa-Bains, a trailblazing Chicana artist, curator, and theorist. The exhibition brings together over 40 works created over 45 years, including the artist’s renowned altar-installations and her lesser-studied handmade books and palimpsest prints characterized by a signature archeological aesthetic of layering and excavation. The Foundation supports this exhibition for situating Mesa-Bains’s oeuvre within an essential cultural conversation about women’s history and rights. . 1. Amalia Mesa-Bains, What the River Gave to Me, 2002. Mixed media installation including hand-carved and painted sculptural landscape, LED lighting, crushed glass, hand-blown and engraved glass rocks, candles. 48 x 48 x 168 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by John Janca. 2. Amalia Mesa-Bains, An Ofrenda for Dolores del Rio, 1984/1991. Mixed media installation including plywood, mirrors, fabric, framed photographs. found objects, dried flowers, and glitter. 96 x 72 x 48 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 3. Amalia Mesa-Bains, Circle of Ancestors, 1995. Mixed media installation including candles and seven hand-painted chairs with mirrors and jewels. 168 in. diameter. Courtesy of the artist. 4. Amalia Mesa-Bains, Private Landscapes and Public Territories, 1998-2011/2018. Mixed media installation including painted and mirrored armoire, found objects, moss, dried flowers, faux topiaries, family photographs, miniature jeweled trees, painted wooden hedges. 120 x 240 x 300 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Michael Karibian. . . . @dr_amalia_says #amaliamesabains @thecheechcenter #thecheech @riversideartmuseum #riversideartmuseum @bampfa #bampfa #Warhol #AndyWarhol #WarholGrantee #Philanthropy #chicanaart #mixedmedia #ArchaeologyofMemory (fb)

#PhilosophyFriday “Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.” —Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) . 1. Andy Warhol, Self-portrait, n.d. Polaroid glued to board or paper. 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 in. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. . . . @polaroid #polaroid #AndyWarhol #Warhol #WarholFoundation #visualarts #artist #selfportrait #selfie #photography #1970s #LittleTimes (fb)