Baca co-founded The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a non-profit arts center in Venice, California in 1976 she continues to serve as its Artistic Director. The most recent panel, titled “The Inuit Send the World a Canary,” was created in Canada by artist Tania Godoroja Pearse in 2014.Īs director of Los Angeles’ Citywide Mural Program in the early 1970s, Baca promoted over 400 mural projects and championed the practice of collaborative mural-making as a form of community-based activism for the historically disenfranchised. In Mexico in 1999 the panel “Tlazolteotl: Fuerza Creadora de lo No Tejido (Creative Force of the Unwoven)” was created by Mexican artists Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and Patricia Quijano Ferrer. “Inheritance and Compromise” was created by the Israeli and Palestinian artist team Ahmed Bweerat, Suliman Monsour, and Adi Yekutieli in 1998 in Monterey Bay, California. Later that year, the panel “The End of the Twentieth Century” was contributed by Soviet artist Alexi Begov in the Soviet Union. From 1987 to1990, Baca painted the first four panels, “Triumph of the Heart,” “Balance,” “Triumph of the Hands,” and “Nonviolent Resistance.” In 1990, the project traveled to Finland, where the panel “Dialogue of Alternatives” was contributed by artists Sirkka-Liisa Lonka, Aaro Matinlauri, and Juha Sääski. World Wall uses narrative visual vocabularies and mythological symbols to envision world peace. “I am happy that the World Wall has finally landed at MOCA here in LA where it began and will become an arena for dialogue again on important issues we currently face.” The work was conceived as a dialogue between artists envisioning a transformation of society because if we could not imagine peace,then how could we actually realize it?” said Baca. We should take it from the neighborhood to the global to inspire peace.’ “The World Wall was inspired by smart young people on the Great Wall production who said in the summer of 1983, in midst of an arms buildup, ‘We should take what we learned here in the Los Angeles River painting about interracial harmony around the world. Organized by Katz, all nine of the panels are presented in the WAREHOUSE space of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in an immersive installation. Baca created four ten-by-thirty-foot canvas panels in the United States before traveling the mural to three countries, where she partnered with local artists and students to contribute additional panels. Baca began the ambitious, utopian mural in 1987, instigating an international dialogue rooted in her philosophy that in order to achieve world peace, we must first be able to envision it. It is a tremendous honor for MOCA to join the legacy of Baca’s profoundly visionary and all-too-timely project by presenting all nine mural panels together for the first time,” said MOCA Curator Anna Katz. With the World Wall mural, she took a homegrown form–muralism, which was disparaged in many quarters–conceived of it as an arena for international dialogue, and sent it around the globe in order to envision nothing less than world peace.
“Judy Baca belongs to a generation of Chicanx artists who were inspired by El Movimiento to give voice to the voiceless through public art, and for nearly fifty years, she has been our city’s foremost muralist. Baca (b.1946, Los Angeles) in her hometown of Los Angeles. Baca: World Wall, the first complete presentation of the monumental, collaborative mural World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear (1987-ongoing) by celebrated Chicana artist Judith F. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Judith F.
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BACA: WORLD WALL September 10, 2022–February 19, 2023 THREE EXHIBITIONS OPENING AT THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA SEPTEMincluding JUDITH F.
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