Cheech Marin's Long-Awaited Museum for Chicano Art Opens in California | Einar and Jamex de la Torre

The newly opened Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture — also known as "The Cheech" — celebrates, spotlights, and complicates respresentations of Chicano art. However, the first temporary show at the museum, Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective, complicates this identity, showcasing the work of two artists born in Guadalajara but raised in the US. The show covers thirty years of work ranging from glassblowing to lenticular images that shift as you move in front of them to assemblages that collect material culture from both sides of the border. They incorporate pre-Columbian imagery, Catholic symbols, and the detritus of daily life, reflecting their own binational experience in vibrant, complex, often humorous constructions. The exhibition was produced in conjunction with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino, for which four potential permanent sites were just announced.