The Walls of Oaxaca
A Gallery of Images from Oaxaca
photos by Kevin McCloskey, 2008
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ASARO’s studio
Known for their woodblock prints, the ASARO collective also does silkscreen prints, stencil graffiti, and paintings on canvas.
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Zapata with Mohawk, 2010
ASARO stencil graffiti, spray paint. 2010 will be the centennial of the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
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Woman in Mourning
ASARO stencil.
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Our Lady of the Barricades
ASARO stencil. Based on Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron of Mexico. A kerchief hides her identity and protects from tear gas.
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The Disappeared
ASARO, acrylic on canvas. From a series on Oaxacans who have “disappeared”.
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Los Seguimos Buscando
ASARO acrylic on canvas. Translation: We Kept Looking for Them.
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Levantate Campesino
Anonymous, woodblock on newsprint pasted to wall. Translation: Rise Up, Farmworker!
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Woman with Rifle
Stencil by “Atake Visual 132K” tag of a Oaxacan artist, not part of ASARO. Presos Polticos Libertad translation: Free the Political Prisoners
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Zapata, 1879-1919
Arte Jaguar Collective. Stencil on vinyl. This is a “throw-up” or preprinted work that can be quickly pasted to a wall.
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Building owners are constantly removing messages from the walls, a near impossible task.
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Stencil graffiti, various artists, including “MCO stencil”.
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Boy with Benito Juarez on his Heart
Stencil and freehand spray paint, signed “excusa2 tk”. President Juarez, born in Oaxaca remains a popular hero.
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APPO Lottery
ASARO, silkscreened gameboards based on the bingo-like game played throughout Mexico. These cards use political symbols related to the APPO (People’s Popular Assembly of Oaxaca) struggle.
Links:
Reed Johnson, the Los Angeles Times Mexico City Bureau Chief, reviewed La Tinta Grita, the exhibition co-curated by Kevin McCloskey.
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics lent UCLA a number of rare ASARO stencil works on paper for the exhibition.
The CSPG collects, preserves, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change.
CSPG’s mission is reclaiming the power of art to inspire people to action.
The CSPG has the largest collection of protest art in the country and some of this work can be seen on their website.
Peter Kuper, artist and graphic novelist just returned from living for two years in Oaxaca. He was there when the turmoil was at its worst.
His Oaxaca diaries will be out later this year from the Mexican publisher, Sexto Piso.
Meanwhile, samples of Kuper’s dispatches from Oaxaca can be seen here: http://www.ai-ap.com/dart/?cat=5
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