Ruby Chacon Presentation June 2006

Slide 1: 

Ruby Chacón a painter

the paintings : 

the paintings

Slide 3: 

“Aunt Anastacia Razo”

Slide 4: 

“Su Banco”

Slide 5: 

“Frida”

Slide 6: 

“Chicano Panzon”

Slide 7: 

“First Women Miners in Helper, Utah”

Slide 8: 

“Café Americano”

Slide 9: 

“Self with Serpent”

Slide 10: 

Hispanic mExican Chilean hecTor pOet aRtist

Slide 11: 

“Fisherman Hands”

Slide 12: 

“Saxophone Player”

Slide 13: 

“Cesar Chavez”

Slide 14: 

“Aunt Rosa was a Downwinder Victim”

Slide 15: 

“El Pastor”

Slide 16: 

“Self as Sor Juana de la Cruz”

Slide 17: 

“Ernie with La Virgen”

Slide 18: 

“Grandpa and His Farm”

Slide 19: 

“El Baile”

Slide 20: 

“Cancion Mixteca”

Slide 21: 

“Grandma Pomasena is Oldest of Her Siblings”

Slide 22: 

“Ritual”

Slide 23: 

“Telesfora Chacon”

Slide 24: 

“Homeboyz”

Slide 25: 

“Melissa”

Slide 26: 

“La Raza Unida”

Slide 27: 

“Mother Feeding Child”

Slide 28: 

“Oaxaquena”

Slide 29: 

“Roasting Chiles”

Slide 30: 

“My Mother’s Gaze”

Slide 31: 

“Making Tortillas”

Slide 32: 

“My Mother’s Hands Smell Like Maza”

Slide 33: 

“Self in Search of Roots”

Slide 34: 

“Self as Cihuacoatl”

Slide 35: 

“My Mother Feeds so many Children”

Slide 36: 

“Self as Tewa Pueblo”

Slide 37: 

“Grandpa’s Old Truck”

Slide 38: 

“Self as Mestiza”

Slide 39: 

“Grandpa and Goat”

Slide 40: 

“Guelaguetza”

Slide 41: 

“Self as Dolores Huerta”

Slide 42: 

“Poet Lalo Delgado”

Slide 43: 

“Self as Chicana Brown Beret”

Slide 44: 

“La Mujer”

Slide 45: 

“Self as Chicana”

Slide 46: 

“Ernesto Chacon”

Slide 47: 

“Self as Undocumented”

Slide 48: 

“Self as La Llorona”

Slide 49: 

chalk art

Slide 50: 

“Cesar Chavez”

Slide 51: 

“Cesar Chavez” in progress

Slide 52: 

Columbus Day “Mexica Warrior”

Slide 53: 

“Mexica Warrior” closeup

Slide 54: 

“Aunt Ana” in progress

Slide 55: 

“Aunt Ana” (Melissa and I)

Slide 56: 

“Aunt Ana”

Slide 57: 

“Grandpa Cosme Chacon” in progress

Slide 58: 

“Grandpa Cosme Chacon” in progress

Slide 60: 

“Pueblo Native” in progress

Slide 61: 

“Pueblo Native”

Slide 62: 

“Frida” in progress

Slide 63: 

“Frida” necklace detail

Slide 64: 

“Frida”

Slide 65: 

performance art

Slide 66: 

performance art may 1st boycott

Slide 72: 

studies

Slide 73: 

“Latino History of Wyoming” mural design

Slide 74: 

“Study of Lisa” in studio

Slide 75: 

“Study of Lisa”

Slide 76: 

“Nude Study”

“Melissa with Felicia” : 

“Melissa with Felicia”

Slide 78: 

studies studies for missing women of juarez exhibit

Slide 79: 

“Nude with head back”

Slide 80: 

“Nude with Flower”

studies : 

studies “nude on stomach”

Slide 82: 

“nude stretched out”

Slide 83: 

“nude in fetal”

Slide 84: 

murals

Slide 85: 

“Cihuacoatl Mural”

Slide 86: 

“Farmer 2” sketch

Slide 87: 

“Farmer” sketch

Slide 88: 

“Golden Rule Mural”

Slide 89: 

“Cihuacoatl” and “Golden Rule” murals

Slide 91: 

“I am always amazed when people ask me to strip my work of its ethnicity, as if doing so would make it more valid. These people would never take away flags from Jasper Johns, or take the American diner away from Edward Hopper. I paint what inspires me, what I see, what I feel, that is all. The fact that it is deeply touched by my Mexican roots only suggests that I am deeply touched by my Mexican roots. I am an artist who paints her Mexican family, the people around her, and the experiences that come with that. Through these paintings I say this is who we are, this is how we lived, and this what we loved and this is what we feared. I am the person who paints our stories on the red rocks of the desert walls.”

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Ruby Chacón 933 South Edison Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 801.359.2401 www.rubychacon.com