The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Vigilantes

2018

J. Leigh Garcia

(American, b. 1993)
America
color screenprint
Image: 35.9 x 50.8 cm (14 1/8 x 20 in.); Support: 51 x 66 x 0.6 cm (20 1/16 x 26 x 1/4 in.); Framed: 53.7 x 69.1 cm (21 1/8 x 27 3/16 in.)
Gift of Margaret and Peter Dobbins 2021.36
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

J. Leigh Garcia teaches printmaking at Kent State University.

Description

In this print, biracial Latinx printmaker J. Leigh Garcia explores her dual identity by focusing on Texan history and immigration. A border patrol truck drags a row of tires behind it, a practice adopted by agents to detect footprints near the border and prosecute those who have attempted to cross into the United States. Garcia draws a parallel between this contemporary practice and the past by featuring a tableau of Mexicans tracked by Texas rangers more than a century earlier within the tires’ path. Flat areas of screenprinted color further blend the images into the landscape, and history to the present.
  • 2020-2021
    Peter and Margaret Dobbins, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2021-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • National Juried Exhibition 2020. Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH (October 10 – November 28, 2020).
  • {{cite web|title=Vigilantes|url=false|author=J. Leigh Garcia|year=2018|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.36