Worker Ant - Couverture souple

Gamboa Jr., Harry

 
9781493544349: Worker Ant

Synopsis

Worker Ant is a contemporary visual/text journal that documents and interprets the world from the perspective of 1 of 7 billion worker ants. Environments are marked by experimental international/local trails that are transformed into aspects of critical cultural focus. Memory, dreams, and ideas are the result of the Worker Ant's ceaseless production. Follow the Worker Ant as it traverses an engaging international environment.

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À propos de l?auteur

Since 1972, Harry Gamboa Jr. has been actively creating works in various media/forms that document and interpret the contemporary urban Chicano experience. He co-founded Asco (Spanish for nausea) 1972-1987, the East L.A. conceptual-performance art group. He founded Virtual Vérité, an ensemble performance troupe in 2005. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally: Nottingham Contemporary, England (2013); Le Musée d' Art Contemporain, Marseille (2013); Museo Universitario Art Contemporáneo (UNAM), Mexico City (2013); Tate Liverpool, England (2013); Williams College Museum of Art (2012); Royal College of Art, London (2012), Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2011, 1984); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011, 2010), Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France (2010); Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, México (2010); Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2009); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom (2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008, 2001); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2008); Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles (2008); El Museo del Barrio, New York (2008); The Huntington Library, San Marino (2008); Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City (2006); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006); Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City (2005); International Center of Photography, New York (2003); Smithsonian Institution(1997); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (1996); 1995 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994); Getty Research Institute (1994); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (1978). His work has been featured in numerous publications: Artforum; The New York Times; Art Review (London); Artforum; Art in America; Frieze (London); East of Boreno. He is a member of the faculty at California Institute of the Arts, School of Art, Program in Photography and Media. He also lectures for Chicana/o Studies Department, CSU Northridge. He has delivered artist talks at: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Harvard University; Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado"La Esmeralda", Mexico City, and Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. A permanent collection of his media works/papers has been established and archived at Stanford University (Special Collections: Mexican American Manuscript Collections, Harry Gamboa Jr. Papers, 1968-2008).

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