Photo Exhibition

We will be exhibiting our work at La Fogata Village 1820 S. Ashland in Chicago

starting April 9 from 6 to 9 pm. Please join us if you can

the change we want.

during all our photographs the most shocking pictures are in the following link below. we want people to notice these murals, and for the community for try and preserve the murals, so our struggle will be remembered – adrian

Flickr: maldito adrian’s Photostream

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faded murals

its sad to see how badly some of the works have faded, I hope this raises more awareness to their condition

This piece is on 18th and Racine painted by Aurelio Diaz

Another new mural

Agricultural mural on the corner of Cullerton St and Blue Island Ave.

Declaration of Immigration Mural

Some more stuff had been painted since I took the picture. Unveiling of the mural was on the 11th of August. Really cool new mural.

“The Declaration of Immigration mural class partnered young artists with teaching artist Salvador Jimenez to conceptualize and create a 2 story high x 30ft wide mural on the Southwest exterior wall of the Yollocalli Arts Reach/Radio Arte shared building.

The mural is a visual dedication to all immigrants and allies who have marched hundreds of thousands of miles to advocate for fair legislation for immigrants and who have stood strong in the face of anti-immigrant rhetoric. Declaration of Immigration looked at some of the historic and current issues affecting immigrant communities and serve as a reminder that the United States of America was founded on emigration and settlement.”

walk down 18th and 21st

by Hector Duarte and some of his colleagues.this is just a piece from an actual larger painting that was done

this is what murals should look like, i love this one because it is so detailed and has much meaning to the neighborhood of Pilsen.
my favorite mural in Pilsen, if this mural was able to get restored  imagine what we can do to the other murals.

This is painted on the building that housed Hector Duarte’s Studio. Hector has worked on a lot of murals in Chicago and in Mexico as you can see on this link http://www.hectorduarte.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=22741&Akey=MNDGM7X3

by: charales.

Please Respect

Pretty self explanatory.  This is one of the walls at the el station on 18th. It’s fading but still.  PLEASE RESPECT MAN!

Link to artist Gamaliel Ramirez website

We were recently in touch with Gamaliel and let him know about the documentation of the murals in Pilsen . Here are images of the indoor murals at Juarez that were a collaboration among several artists.

The Daring of our Ancestors – Gamaliel Ramirez, Ray Patlan, Roberto Valadez, Hector Duarte, Jose Gonzalez, Aurelio Diaz

http://gamalielramirez.net/gamaliel_ramirez_197.htm

This piece is entitled ‘The Liberation of Latin America’ by Gamaliel Ramirez, Ray Patlan, Roberto Valadez, Hector Duarte, Jose Gonzalez, Aurelio Diaz, Sandra Antongiorgi

http://gamalielramirez.net/gamaliel_ramirez_198.htm

There are  two more panels but we were not able to go to Juarez and take a picture since its summer and school is now out

Mural of the faces on 16th and Blue Island 1976/2009

1976

2009

These two images show how the mural on the 16th Street viaduct looked when it was first painted and how it looks now.  The artist that painted this piece was Aurelio Diaz who was responsible for many pieces in the community including some of the work inside Juarez High School and at St Pius.

The top image was sent to us by the Chicago Public Art Group from their archives.

Mural on Allport by 18th

Here is a photo of the mural on Allport painted by Roy Villalobos

http://roysurreal.mosaicglobe.com/

and one of the local cats maintaining the edges.