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Danza Ocelotl [Jaguar Dance]
Primary
Yreina D. Cervántez
(Garden City, Kansas, 1952–Los Angeles, California, present)
Date1983
MediumScreenprint
DimensionsSheet: 35 1/16 × 23 1/16 in. (89 × 58.6 cm)
Image: 25 × 18 7/8 in. (63.5 × 48 cm)
Image: 25 × 18 7/8 in. (63.5 × 48 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Gilberto Cárdenas, 2017.328
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.328
On View
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Yreina Cervántez’s "Danza Ocelotl", facilitated by master printer Stephen Grace, includes several "ocelotl"—jaguar, in the Nahuatl language—that in Mesoamerican culture was seen as a symbol of power. The jaguars surround a self-portrait of Cervántez holding a circular mask in front of her face. Within the disc, an orange feline creates the shape of a nose beneath a third-eye. This combination of symbols, vibrant color, and glitter together express Chicana pride and power.
Exhibitions
![Study for Jaguar Dance [Estudio para Danza Ocelotl]](/internal/media/dispatcher/23917/thumbnail)
![El pueblo chicano con el pueblo centroamericano [The Chicano People with the Central American People]](/internal/media/dispatcher/7154/thumbnail)
![Danza de la muerte I [Dance of Death I], no. 12 from Méndez: 25 Prints](/internal/media/dispatcher/7802/thumbnail)
![Danza de la Muerte II [Dance of Death II], no. 17 from Méndez: 25 Prints](/internal/media/dispatcher/7855/thumbnail)
