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Luis Jiménez
Jiménez has said "I like to take images from popular
culture and execute them in materials associated more with
amusement parks than fine art museums. …. As a result
I am able to express the truths that are already out there"
(Flores-Turney, 1997, p. 18).
Click to read an article about the
artist's receipt of the Distinguished
Alumni Award from the University of Texas at Austin
Joe Segura
Joe Segura is the master printer and publisher of the Southwest
Pieta lithograph. He explained his commitment to Jiménez
work this way: "The biggest reason that I chose to become
a print publisher is that I have always loved the idea of
printmaking as an art form-its ability to be more democratic,
its history of craftsmanship and collaboration, its inherent
alchemist qualities, and that it creates an opportunity for
the artist to speak to a larger audience. Printmaking also
gives me, the publisher, and the artists that we are so privileged
to work with, a collective collaborative voice to articulate
the ideas we feel are important" (Segura Publishing Company,
1997, n. p.).
A publication of the Segura Publishing
Company includes the following comments about Jiménez
and his work: "Luis Jiménez leaves no doubt about
his ethnic identity. 'I'm Chicano,' he says, with the same
firm matter-of-factness with which he expresses many of his
thoughts and feelings. In many ways, his work embodies what
Chicano scholars have identified as a Chicano sensibility
and aesthetic. His sculptural heroes are proud, his palette
flashy, his imagery loud. He is at home with sentiment and
narrative. Ritual is essential to him. So is a voluptuous,
rambunctious sensuality combined with a stark awareness of
cruelty and death" (Segura Publishing Company, 1997,
n. p.).
Click to learn more about Segura
Publishing Company
Jesús
Moroles
As a young man, Jesús Moroles, a prominent Mexican
America sculptor, worked for a year as an apprentice in Luis
Jiménez' studio. Moroles writes: "I feel like
in that one year I was able to gain so much experience just
by osmosis, by being around him, doing the same galleries,
the same exhibitions, the same museums, the same gallery talks,
museum talks, transporting, shipping, work ethic, everything
he did that translated into what I wanted to do" (1999,
p. 29-30).
Click to see art by Jésus
Moroles
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