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Yrenia Cervantes

1990
(American, 1959–2018)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 22.9 x 30.5 cm (9 x 12 in.); Paper: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2023.10
© Laura Aguilar Trust
Location: not on view
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A native of the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California, Aguilar had deep roots in California that she traced back through several generations of women in her family.

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Laura Aguilar photographed diverse artists in the burgeoning Chicano/a art community in East Los Angeles, where she lived and worked. The portrait of Yrenia Cervantes, a Chicana activist and mural painter, shows the sitter’s bedroom elaborately decorated like a home altar, a common sight in borderlands homes.

Yrenia Cervantes

1990

Laura Aguilar

(American, 1959–2018)
America

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