Detail View: Emanuel Martinez Collection: La Mexicana: Female Icons in Mexican Culture

Image Record ID: 
aahi0019893
Work Title (display): 
La Mexicana: Female Icons in Mexican Culture
Image Title: 
full view
Work Description: 
Emanuel Martinez participates in "La Mexicana: Female Icons in Mexican Culture" exhibition a the Arvada Center. Painting information: La Curandera, acrylic, 1980, 16 in. (H) x 12 in. (W), Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Luis Abarca.
Work Dates (display): 
Fall 2012
Work Dates type: 
publication
Work Creator (display): 
Arvada Center (American arts center based in Arvada CO, founded in 1976)
Work Creator notes (display): 
"The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is a multi-use cultural facility operated by the City of Arvada, Colorado, United States, which opened in 1976.[1] The Arvada Center comprises the Arvada History Museum, three theaters, art galleries, music, dance, and theater rehearsal rooms, classrooms, a conference center, and an amphitheater." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvada_Center_for_the_Arts_and_Humanities)
Work Creator (display): 
Emanuel Martinez (American, born 1947)
Work Creator notes (display): 
Born in Denver, Colorado in 1947, Emanuel Martinez began his career as an artist at the age of thirteen, when he painted his first mural. His art education includes workshops with world renowned artists and sculptors including David A. Siquieros and Francisco Zuniga. At the age of 20, Emanuel did a major work and two other pieces that are now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. As a muralist, painter and sculptor he occupies an outstanding status among nationally known artists. Since establishing a studio in 1968, Martinez has received international acclaim and prestigious awards for his design capabilities and high standards of workmanship. He enjoys personalizing compositions for clients and doing public works of art for site-specific environments. His work is lively, timeless, yet conveys a sense of serenity. He has been featured in over 300 newspaper/magazine articles and 37 published books, including a book written on his art career entitled: “Emanuel Martinez: A Retrospective”. http://emanuelmartinez.com/bio/
Work Creator (display): 
Rosa Puente J. (Mexican, active circa early 2010s)
Work Creator (display): 
Irene Aguilar (Mexican, active 2010s)
Work Creator notes (display): 
"The Aguilar family of Ocotlán de Morelos are from a rural town in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. This town produced only utilitarian items until Isaura Alcantara Diaz began creating decorative figures with her husband Jesus Aguila Revilla. The couple taught their five daughters who continued innovating their own styles and then teaching the two generations after them. Two of the sisters, Guilliermina and Irene have been named “grand masters” by the Fomento Cultural Banamex, for their figures and sets of figures related to the life and traditions of Oaxaca, as well as Mexican icons such as Frida Kahlo and the Virgin of Guadalupe." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguilar_family_(Oaxacan_potters))
Work Creator (display): 
Alvaro de la Cruz (Mexican, active circa 2003 to circa 2013)
Work Creator notes (display): 
"[Alvaro] de la Cruz has taken the Catrina character created by José Guadalupe Posada and turned her into an art form. Catrina is a spirited skeleton dressed in elegant finery. Although most of the Catrinas are female, Alvaro gives males equal time and many of his creations are charros (Mexican cowboys), bridegrooms, or other manly figures." (https://www.mexicoartshow.com/delacruz.html)
Work Creator (display): 
René Atchison (American, active early 2010s to present)
Work Creator Multiple Roles (display): 
publisher: Arvada Center; artist: Emanuel Martinez, Rosa Puente J., Irene Aguilar, Alvaro de la Cruz; photographer: René Atchison
Work Style Period: 
2010s
Work Subject: 
Martinez, Emanuel (American sculptor and painter, born 1947)
Work Subject: 
La Curandera (Emanuel Martinez painting)
Work Subject: 
paintings (visual works)
Work Subject: 
La Mexicana: Female Icons in Mexican Culture (art exhibition in Arvada, CO)
Work Subject: 
art exhibitions
Work Subject: 
Mexico history
Work Subject: 
history (discipline)
Work Subject: 
Aguilar Alcántara, Irene (Mexican ceramicist, active ca. 2000s to present)
Work Subject: 
de la Cruz, Alvaro (Mexican ceramicist, active ca. 2000s to present)
Work Subject: 
Puente J., Rosa (Mexican artist, active ca. late 1990s)
Work Subject: 
folk art (traditional art)
Work Worktype: 
brochures
Work Category (VRC classification): 
periodicals
Work Location (Geographic) name: 
Arvada, Colorado
Work Location (Geographic) role: 
referenced
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Work Rights (display): 
© Arvada Center
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Holding Institution: 
University of Colorado Boulder
Collection: 
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
Subcollection: 
Emanuel Martinez Collection
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