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The Imaginary Garden
2003
48 x 84 in. (121.92 x 213.36 cm)
Patssi Valdez (Los Angeles, California, 1951 - )
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, July 30, 2007 - September 9, 2007, San José Museum of Art.
Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection, November 20, 2004 - July 9, 2006, New Wing, Second Floor, South Metro A and Central Skylight Galleries, San José Museum of Art.
It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, October 3, 2004 - February 13, 2005, New Wing, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, First Floor, San José Museum of Art.
It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years (2004-2005)
Patssi Valdez first carved a niche for herself in the activist Chicano culture of East Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Since then she has become one of the nation’s leading Magical Realist painters, working from a distinctly personal point of view. Every element in —based on the desert exhibit at the Huntington Library in Southern California—is animated. The tree limbs flail about like human arms and the succulents extend like outstretched fingers. Blazing, saturated colors result in a dazzling blend of realism and fantasy. Valdez believes that “our fantasy life is every bit as real and important to us as the concrete reality of our everyday lives.”
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The Imaginary Garden
Painting
200348 x 84 in. (121.92 x 213.36 cm)
Patssi Valdez (Los Angeles, California, 1951 - )
Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Acrylic on canvas
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds contributed by cb and Dick Watts, Lisa and John Kohler, Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu, Elaine and Rex Cardinale, Arpi Djenguerian, and Margaret and Gibson Anderson, in honor of the San Jose Museum of Art's 35th anniversary
Accession Number: 2004.16
Exhibition
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, July 30, 2007 - September 9, 2007, San José Museum of Art.
Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection, November 20, 2004 - July 9, 2006, New Wing, Second Floor, South Metro A and Central Skylight Galleries, San José Museum of Art.
It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, October 3, 2004 - February 13, 2005, New Wing, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, First Floor, San José Museum of Art.
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It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years (2004-2005)
Patssi Valdez first carved a niche for herself in the activist Chicano culture of East Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Since then she has become one of the nation’s leading Magical Realist painters, working from a distinctly personal point of view. Every element in —based on the desert exhibit at the Huntington Library in Southern California—is animated. The tree limbs flail about like human arms and the succulents extend like outstretched fingers. Blazing, saturated colors result in a dazzling blend of realism and fantasy. Valdez believes that “our fantasy life is every bit as real and important to us as the concrete reality of our everyday lives.”
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- Image Dimensions: 48 x 84 in. (121.92 x 213.36 cm)
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