Frank Romero USA, b. 1941
Por El Pueblo, 1981
Acrylic on canvas
143 x 250 in
363.2 x 635 cm
363.2 x 635 cm
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Barrientos Martínez shares, “Created in 1981 in conjunction with the exhibition Murals of Aztlán: The Street Painters of East Los Angeles at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los...
Barrientos Martínez shares, “Created in 1981 in conjunction with the exhibition Murals of Aztlán: The Street Painters of East Los Angeles at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, California, Por El Pueblo reflects a diverse cast of signs and symbols that belong to a coded pictographic language first developed by the artist in the early 1970s. From a family pet to an unbridled horse, a military warplane to a 1920s Chevy, an oversized corazón to a nopal cactus, these icons are painted atop a large spread of cool hues with inclusions of deep red shades. Romero’s motifs represent familiar surroundings within the range of Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles to Arroyo Seco in Taos, New Mexico, pulling from his communal and personal record as a love letter to his culture and region composed in the tongue of his visual vocabulary. Por El Pueblo communicates to viewers using coded language that is both deeply personal for Romero and universal in its relationship to the everyday.”
Exhibitions
De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX; curator: Rafael Barrientos Martínez, 2024Long term loan, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA, 1990 - 2024
Murals of Aztlán: The Street Painters of East Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1981
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey, Ruiz-Healy Art: New York / San Antonio, 2024 (illustrated)Frank, Nicholas, “Ruiz-Healy’s 40-year Frank Romero Survey Traces Early & Ancient Roots of Chicano Art,” Glasstire, March 5, 2025 (illustrated)
