Linda Vallejo’s Extraordinary Vision
A new Exhibition at parrasch heijnen showcases five decades of the artist’s work
Artillery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2024
Vallejo possesses a storied history in Los Angeles and is a self-described postmodern woman working in a multitude of media. Her artistic experimentation has afforded her a singular and idiosyncratic voice. What’s not immediately obvious is the relentless drive required to define and place herself in relationship to a ruthlessly dogmatic art world
- William Moreno
New Los Angeles art space focuses on the experiences of women
The Art Newspaper, November 12, 2024
'The artist Kathryn Andrews establishes The Judith Center, a women-centred organisation focused on promoting projects related to gender, race and sexual identity. The centre will open to the public as a 500 sq. ft space on the 12th floor of the LA Mart building Downtown in January, where the artist’s own studio is also located.
- Gabriella Angeleti
When curator Pablo José Ramírez was asked to take charge of a section at the Frieze London art fair dedicated each year to special presentations, he wanted to shine a light on Indigenous and diaspora artists from the Americas, while acknowledging the unfixed and ambiguous identities these artists often inhabit.
- Jonathan Griffin
Curator Pablo José Ramírez: ‘Art history doesn’t belong exclusively to the western world’
Financial Times, October 4, 2024
To visit Linda Vallejo's show is to drift among various art historical currents of the last half century, as processed by an eco-feminist, Chicana artist born in Boyle Heights, the Los Angeles neighborhood where this gallery now stands.
- Jonathan Griffin
At Los Angeles Galleries, Savoring the Waning Days of Summer
New York Times, August 28, 2024
‘Smoke’: Christine Howard Sandoval and Linda Vallejo
At Frieze London 2024, parrasch heijnen presents a dual exhibition that explores the cultural memory of communities and lands
FRIEZE LONDON, July 29, 2024
Exploring relationships to nature and the spiritual legacy of her Mexican heritage, Vallejo creates works diverse in technique and style using a variety of media.
- Pablo José Ramírez
Chican-o.a.x. Body
excerpt from exhibition catalog edited by Cecilia Fajardo Hill, Gilbert Vicario, & Marissa Del Toro
Vallejo, like other conceptualists and neo conceptualists, offers metacommentaries on art and art making itself. But she goes a step further: her interests in numbers is not theoretical or philosophical; she brings data to the fore to combat racism, provoking viewers in order to foster political change. Vallejo offers art in the service of Latinx politics , making conceptualism, neo-conceptualism, and minimalism Brown.
- Charlene Villasenor Black
Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento
Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis
edited by Amber Rose González, Felicia 'Fe' Montes, and Nadia Zepeda
- University of Arizona Press
All These Liberations
Women Artist in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection
Edited by Taylor Renee Aldridge
With contributions by Taylor Rene Aldridge, Sophia Belsheim, Susan Cathan, Chelsea Mikael Frazier, Thelma Golden, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Kellie Jones, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Kris Kuramitsu, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Steven Nelson, Legacy Russell, Lorna Simpson, and Lowery Stokes Sims.
- Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Linda Vallejo – Select Works, 1969 – 2024 at parrasch heijnen
Art and Cake, September 2, 2024
Throughout her more than 50-year-long career, Vallejo has worked in a wide range of materials, techniques, and subjects, generating paintings, prints, sculptures, and assemblage objects. She has focused on issues of identity, gender, and race, often deconstructing cultural stereotypes as she does so.
- Betty Brown
Canon in Drag: Female Artists Reimagine Famous Works by Men
ArtNews, December 26, 2022
California-based multimedia artist Linda Vallejo has pointed to the lack of representation of her Mexican-American heritage by turning everyone brown.
- Karen Chernick
Digitized ephemera from exhibitions, publications, and special projects, hundreds of art images with details, and a video library.
