Jacqueline Valenzuela
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Jacqueline Valenzuela (born July 3, 1997) is a contemporary Chicano multidisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA.[1]
Biography[edit]
Jacqueline Valenzuela was born on July 3, 1997.[better source needed] She is the daughter of two Mexican immigrants and the youngest of four children.[1] She grew up being encouraged and nurtured to tap into her creative side, using her father and brother as sources of influence.[2] She grew up in various parts of Los Angeles, such as South Central, Whittier, and City Terrace, which all played a crucial role in shaping her into the artist she is.[2] Her upbringing in the Hispanic communities of Los Angeles is what led to her portrayal of lowriders and works of art on these types of cars.[2]
In high school, Valenzuela hadn't even considered attending college until her teacher scolded her for not applying because she was a good student.[3] She decided to attend Cal State University, Long Beach and decided to pursue a degree in Fine Art.[4] She was the first in her family to pursue higher education and accredits her family's support despite them having the immigrant mindset of wanting her to be a lawyer or doctor.[1] Valenzuela graduated from CSULB in 2019.[better source needed] After graduating, she didn't immediately jump into becoming a full-time artist because she had to manage having a day job as a tutor while working 50 hours a week in her studio on her art. It wasn't until Covid-19 happened that she dove into being a full-time artist, since her job was in jeopardy of closing because of the lockdown.[4]
Notable art[edit]
Valenzuela’s art is influenced and developed from her experiences of growing up as a first-gen Mexican-American in Los Angeles.[4] Valenzuela's art developed from her adolescent interest in the subcultures within her community, from the underground punk scene in East L.A. to the lowriders cruising Whittier Blvd on the weekends.[2] Her reason for doing art centered on lowriders, a fixture of Mexican-American culture, is to give women in the lowrider scene the spotlight and bring attention to the lowrider culture out of the streets and into a gallery setting. Her hopes are to encourage individuals to interact with Chicano and lowrider culture.[1]
All throughout Los Angeles, Valenzuela's work has been exhibited at various non-profits, artist-run spaces, and galleries. She has organized collaborative shows at the artist-run Flatline Gallery in Long Beach, collaborated on the stand out a lowrider build known as The Heart of Gold.[2] She has also been showed at the Torrance Art Museum, as part of the LA 6 and The Underground exhibition.[5]
Lowrider series[edit]
Growing up, Valenzuela noticed on that there seemed to be an erasure of women when it came to the car scene in LA.[4] When she came to be the owner of her very own lowrider, a 1975 Cadillac El Dorado, she became increasingly aware of the lack of female representation. She took issue with how women in lowrider culture had become limited to being sexually objectified, often relegated only to being models and accents to the cars, so she started a lowrider series, that focuses on displaying and bringing attention to women owning and driving lowriders.[2] Through her work on lowriders, Valenzuela hopes encompass and bring attention that subculture and how it is deeply rooted in art, family and community.[4]
Jealousy (2019)[edit]
This oil and pastel painting features a woman, dressed in LA street attire, representing the women low riders. She is in the middle, with a big black dog next to her. They are surrounded by graffiti backgrounds and street signs that are remnants of the signs all over Los Angeles. The painting is part of her lowrider series, a clear reflection of Chicano culture in the streets of Los Angeles.[3]
La Nube (2019)[edit]
This oil and pastel painting centers a woman dressed in traditional Chicano attire in a lowrider, as the driver, not just an adjacent model. She is surrounded by graffiti and street signs, all fixtures of Los Angeles street life.[3]
Solitary[edit]
This painting also features a woman in the center with a lowrider in the back and street signs in the form of graffiti all around her.[1]
Baby Lincoln (2019)[edit]
This painting is focused on a lowrider in the middle, with a Los Angeles bridge in the back. Graffiti and street signs also surround the borders of this painting.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Love, Katie (2020-09-08). "Jacqueline Valenzuela: Artist + 2020 Not Real Art Grant Recipient". Not Real Art World. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Jacqueline Valenzuela as an artist". ñ studio. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Anti-Racist Art Teachers - Jacqueline Valenzuela". www.antiracistartteachers.org. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Woman Power, Art and Lowriding in LA - Meet Jacqueline Valenzuela". GATA. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "The LA 6 and The Underground | Exhibitions | MutualArt". www.torranceartmuseum.com. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
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