Mel Casas American, 1929-2014
182.9 x 243.8 cm
Exhibitions
Mel Casas: Human, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; curator: Bianca Alvarez, September 20- January 6, 2018, p. 3Mel Casas: Iconic Reality, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas, October 18- November 25, 2017
Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, Traveling to San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Museum of Contemporary Art- San Diego, California, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, O’Kane Gallery, Houston, Texas, Saint Louis Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, Museum of Fine Art Fort Lauderdale; curator: René Yáñez, 2002 (catalogue)
Mel Casas, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; curator: June Mattingly, 1988 (catalogue)
Mel Casas: Humanscapes, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston; curator Santos Martinez Jr., Houston, Texas, October 22- November 23, 1976
Literature
Silva, Eda. “4 exhibits showcase Chicano painter Casas.” My SA Sunday, June 14, 2015, p. 14.San Antonio Current Staff. “21 Paintings From 'Getting the Big Picture: Mel Casas and the Politics of the 1960s and 1970s' At Galería Guadalupe.” San Antonio Current, August 20, 2015 (illustrated)
Goddard, Dan R.. “Late Artist Mel Casas Remembered In 'Humanscapes' Series.” San Antonio Current, August 19, 2015
Hickey, David. “Mel Casas: Borderlord.” Artspace: Southwest Contemporary Art Quarterly Final, 1988 (illustrated)
Lopez, Mia. “In San Antonio, a Chicano Painter Who Paired Pop Art with Pointed Politics.” Hyperallergic, October 19, 2015 (illustrated)
Silva, Elda. “Casas exhibit too big for one gallery.” San Antonio Express News, June 11, 2015
Marin, Cheech, Max Benavidez, Constance Cortez, and Terecita Romo. Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002, p. 59 (illustrated)
Publications
Kelker, Nancy. “Mel Casas: Redefining America.” Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019, p. 188, 189 (illustrated)
Jackson, Carlos Francisco. Mel Casas: The Permeable and Porous Borderlands. Mel Casas: Iconic Reality. Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas, October 18- November 25, 2017 (illustrated)
Cordova, Ruben C.. Born of Resistance: Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015, p. 165, 180-3 (illustrated)
Kelker, Nancy. Mel Casas: Artist as Cultural Adjuster. Lascassas: Highship Press, 2014, p. 58 (illustrated)Hickey, David. Mel Casas, Austin: Laguna Gloria Art Museum, 1988, p. 17 (illustrated)
Mel Casas: Humanscapes, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston; curator Santos Martinez Jr., Houston, Texas, October 22- November 23, 1976 (illustrated)
