Image credits: (Top) Marie Orensanz, Limitada (Limited), 1978, photograph, courtesy Orensanz and Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery. (Bottom) Teddy Sandoval, Las Locas, c. 1980, acrylic and mixed-media on unstretched canvas, courtesy of Paul Polubinskas, photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
Andrea Giunta (Universidad de Buenos Aires/UT Austin) and C. Ondine Chavoya (Williams College) present their recent curatorial projects, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 and Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., part of the recent Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA series of exhibitions, and participate in a roundtable on curating and art historical research moderated by George Flaherty.
C. Ondine Chavoya is a professor of art and Latina/o Studies at Williams College. His research and curatorial projects have addressed issues of collaboration, experimentation, social justice and archival practices in contemporary art. Recent exhibitions include Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987 (2011, with Rita Gonzalez) and Robert Rauschenberg: Autobiography (2017, with Lisa Dorin). Chavoya is also co-editor of Chicana and Chicano Art: A Critical Anthology (forthcoming).
Andrea Giunta is a professor of art history at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and former Chair in Latin American Art History and Criticism at UT Austin, where she was a founding director of CLAVIS. Giunta is the author of several monographs, including ¿Cuando empieza el arte contemporáneo? (2014), Escribir las imágenes (2011), Poscrisis (2009), and Avant-Garde, Internationalism and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties (2007).
George Flaherty is an associate professor of Art History at the University of Texas and Director of CLAVIS.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) and the Department of Art and Art History.