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Park Studio participants worked with acclaimed artists Barbara Carrasco and Robbie Conal to produce original political graphics. Carrasco and Conal, known for their activism through art, brought their own work for discussion and context. The discourse and hands-on workshops produced work for the exhibition titled A Mighty Message.
Barbara Carrasco Barbara Carrasco, artist and muralist, creates work concerning race, identity, feminism, and injustice and has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America at such institutions as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Museo del Chopo, Mexico, and the Mexican Museum. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from UCLA and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the California Institute of the Arts. During the period of 1976-1991, Carrasco created numerous banners for the United Farm Workers and worked closely with human rights activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. In the mid-80s, she was invited to the former USSR to paint murals in Leningrad and Armenia. In 1989, Carrasco’s computer animation PESTICIDES! was featured on the Spectacolor Lightboard at Times Square in New York. Carrasco has been awarded several grants, including the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Window Grant for Literature; the LACE/Rockefeller Foundation/Andy Warhol Foundation/NEA, Artists Project Grant; the J. Paul Getty Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship in Painting; and a COLA award from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Her original mural sketches and drawings are archived in the Library of Congress’ permanent collection of works on paper, Washington DC. Additional documentation of her mural work is in the California Murals Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. A permanent collection of her papers is archived at Stanford University’s Mexican American Manuscript Collections. Her oral history is archived at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Robbie Conal Robbie Conal grew up in Manhattan as a child of union organizers. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from San Francisco State University and his Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) at Stanford University. In 1984 he moved to Los Angeles and was so “inspired” by the Reagan Administration, Conal began making satirical posters of politicians and bureaucrats who, by his reckoning, had abused their power in the name of representing democracy. His posters appear in the streets of major cities around the country thanks to an organization of guerilla volunteers and buckets of wheat paste. He has made more than 50 posters satirizing politicians, televangelists, and global capitalists. He also takes on issues of censorship, the Supreme Court's ruling against women's freedom of choice, and environmental issues. Conal’s work has been featured in the media on CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous daily newspapers around the country. He has received National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant; a Getty Individual Artist Grant and a COLA Individual Artist’s grant from Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. He has authored two books: Art Attack: The Midnight Politics of a Guerrilla Poster Artist (HarperCollins, 1992) and Artburn (Akashic Books, 2003). He is an adjunct professor at the School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. |
| Conal Carrasco | | | Carol Wells | | | Harry Gamboa, Jr. | | | Hit+Run | | | Man One | | | Tropico de Nopal | | | Exhibition | | | Information | | | Sponsors |
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