Behind the fascinating public artist's practice of collaboration
Judith F. Baca is best known for the Great Wall of Los Angeles
(1976-83), a vibrant 2,740-foot mural in Los Angeles that presents
an alternative history of California-one that focuses on the
contributions of marginalized and underrepresented communities. The
mural is emblematic of Baca's pioneering approach to creating
public art, a process in which members of the community are
essential contributors to the conception and realization of the
work. Anna Indych-Lopez explores Baca's oeuvre, from early murals
painted with local gang members in the Boyle Heights neighborhood
of Los Angeles to more recently commissioned works. She looks in
depth at the Great Wall and considers the artist's ongoing work
with the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice,
California, a nonprofit group founded by Baca in 1976. Throughout,
Indych-Lopez assesses what she calls Baca's "public art of
contestation" and discusses how ideas of collaboration and
authorship and issues of race, class, and gender have influenced
and sustained Baca's art practice.
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