César Martinez’s Retrospective Show: A Tribute To A Maestro Of Chicano Art

Dr. Ricardo Romo, Latinos in America : Substack, November 6, 2024
On October 24, 2024, the Ruiz-Healy Gallery in San Antonio opened a marvelous Chicano art exhibit, César A. Martínez: Smoke & Mirrors. The exhibit includes recent paintings by Martinez and drawings from the 1970s.  César Martinez is a major Latino artist, among the founders of the Chicano Art Movement, and one of the few Latino-American artists whose work has been collected by major American museums including the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum in New York City, The Los Angeles Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. 
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