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Rita GonzalezRita Gonzalez is assistant curator and special assistant to the deputy director in the Center for Art of the Americas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. From 1997-1999, she was the Lila Wallace Curatorial Intern at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, whwere she worked on numerous exhibitions, lectures & film programs, as well as serving as curatorial coordinator for William Kentridge: Weighing and Wanting. Together with film scholar Norma Iglesias, she curated a film and video series for inSITE 2000. Gonzalez has written for media and art journals including Wide Angle, Poliester, COIL, Signs, and RIM. Forthcoming essays will appear in Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (Duke University Press) and Recent Pasts: Art in Southern California from 90s to Now (JRP|Ringier Zurich). She is finalizing her doctoral dissertation in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA. Her dissertation examines the representation of new topographies in post-Chicano visual and media art, as well as the representation of Chicano art in a "globalized" Mexican art scene. With Howard Fox and Chon Noriega, Gonzalez will curate an exhibition on the conceptual and interventionist works by Chicano artists that have been marginalized by both Chicano art and art history.
Seminar speeches given by Rita Gonzalez:THE LATINIZATION OF ART & CULTURE IN AMERICAUnderstanding Its Impact and Why it Matters October 20, 2005 THE CONVERSATION: In a white dominated art market & critical establishment, why are there no or so few Chicano, Central and South American artists in major museum collections? Do the museums reject identity-based art? And, does the new Latino majority want identity-specific exhibitions? Lead speaker: Rita Gonzalez, assistant curator at the Center for Arts in the Americas at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Speakers: Miki Garcia, co-curator of the S-Files at Museo del Barrio in NYC and Executive Director, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum; Bill Kelley, director of LatinArt.com, independent writer, curator and critic; Alma Ruiz, Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); Mario Ybarra, artist and founder of Slanguage Gallery In attendance: Max Benavidez, UCLA resident scholar, writer and art critic; Edward Goldman, visual art critic for KCRW Video is presented in either Real Media or Windows Media format. To view Real Media video, download and install RealPlayer, a free video streaming player available from RealNetworks. To view Windows Media video, you will need to download and install the Windows Media 10 Player. |
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