The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Vigilantes
2018
(American, b. 1993)
Image: 35.5 x 50.5 cm (14 x 19 7/8 in.); Sheet: 35.5 x 50.5 cm (14 x 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 53.7 x 69.1 cm (21 1/8 x 27 3/16 in.)
Location: not on view
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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.- 2020-2021Peter and Margaret Dobbins, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2021-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=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.36