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Diane Gamboa
(Los Angeles, California, 1957–)
Date1986
MediumScreenprint
DimensionsSheet: 18 3/4 × 12 11/16 in. (47.6 × 32.3 cm)
Image: 10 7/8 × 9 5/8 in. (27.6 × 24.4 cm)
Image: 10 7/8 × 9 5/8 in. (27.6 × 24.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Gilberto Cárdenas, 2017.388
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.388
On View
Not on viewLos Angeles-based Diane Gamboa is a self-identified Chicana figurative artist who glamorizes her outsider characters with punk aesthetics and alternative fashion. Gamboa’s presence in the Chicanx art world spans her prominent work as a member of the ASCO conceptual art collective (1980–87), the Art Director of the magazine ChismeArte (1984), and an instructor for the Self Help Graphics Barrio Mobile Art Studio (circa 1970s). Her art production ranges from wearable paper art and tattoos to drawings and prints referencing the Los Angeles entertainment, fashion, and music industries. Gamboa’s father was a graphic designer for a record company, and vinyl album covers influenced her approach to color theory and acted as a training ground for her art. Fashion magazines, musicians, queer and trans communities, celebrities, and drag queens are also points of inspiration for Gamboa’s redefinitions of femininity and glamour, as she interrogates gender and social hierarchies. In these dynamic and multicolored portraits, Gamboa translates a frenetic and confrontational punk energy into chaotic, gestural lines that define anonymous faces.
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