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The Virgin Of Guadalupe
title The Virgin Of Guadalupedescription California artist Jeffrey Vallance proposed to make an intervention at the Tijuana Wax Museum for inSITE2000. Collaborating with Mexico City-based wax-figure maker Victor Hugo Yanez, Vallance produced three new figures for the museum: the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dante, and former US President Richard Nixon. Vallance started with a list of about twenty-eight names of historical and contemporary figures as potential additions to the display at the museum, and arrive at the selection of the three figures based on the existing exhibition structure. The Virgin of Guadalupe could be seen in full figure situated on her own, while Nixon was placed in the presidential room holding in his hands the symbolic element that came to define his public career, a simulated set of reel-to-reel Watergate tapes, and Dante was placed at the entrance to hell with his hand pointing the way. With his project for the Wax Museum, Vallance deepened his own interest and fascination with the three selected figures. In this way, having followed stories for years from different parts of the world detailing apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Vallance, during a residency period in San Diego, could add yet another apparition to the list - he spotted her up high on a stone column at the Courtyard by Marriott downtown hotel. -- inSITE2000 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 386) Tijuana Wax Museum [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Wax Figures Popular Culture Religions (Concept) Humor Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Figurative Art Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Piety In Art Visions Prayer Waxworks Gesture Insite2000 Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Christianity And Artcontributor Calisphere -
You Can'T Get There From Here
title You Can'T Get There From Heredescription Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The collaborative contribution to inSITE94 by San Diego artists Mario Lara and Barbara Sexton, "You Can't Get There from Here/No puedes ir allá desde aquí," was located at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. Consisting of two main elements, the installation dealt with the relationship between trophies of achievement and the individual self-image that often dispels the very essence of what is publicly recognized. The artists created numerous plaques and trophies that were displayed salon style on the walls of the space, while the other central element, a billboard prop, outwardly proclaimed the word PARADISO. - inSITE94 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 199) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Collaboration Humor Pistols Collage--Technique Border Art Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Insite94 Maps Plaques (Flat Objects) Trophies (Objects) Installations (Visual Works) Californiacontributor Calisphere -
Dante Alighieri
title Dante Alighieridescription California artist Jeffrey Vallance proposed to make an intervention at the Tijuana Wax Museum for inSITE2000. Collaborating with Mexico City-based wax-figure maker Victor Hugo Yanez, Vallance produced three new figures for the museum: the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dante, and former US President Richard Nixon. Vallance started with a list of about twenty-eight names of historical and contemporary figures as potential additions to the display at the museum, and arrive at the selection of the three figures based on the existing exhibition structure. The Virgin of Guadalupe could be seen in full figure situated on her own, while Nixon was placed in the presidential room holding in his hands the symbolic element that came to define his public career, a simulated set of reel-to-reel Watergate tapes, and Dante was placed at the entrance to hell with his hand pointing the way. With his project for the Wax Museum, Vallance deepened his own interest and fascination with the three selected figures. In this way, having followed stories for years from different parts of the world detailing apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Vallance, during a residency period in San Diego, could add yet another apparition to the list - he spotted her up high on a stone column at the Courtyard by Marriott downtown hotel. -- inSITE2000 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 387) Tijuana Wax Museum [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Authors Wax Figures Popular Culture Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Figurative Art Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Waxworks Gesture Insite2000 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Landing With Drunken Figure And Lamppost
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Landing With Drunken Figure And Lamppostdescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 211) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Mid-Level Left Turn With Toltec, Guadalupe
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Mid-Level Left Turn With Toltec, Guadalupedescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 212) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level Right With Toltec Feet, Rooster
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level Right With Toltec Feet, Roosterdescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 213) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level View Of Tijuana With Buddha And Bart Simpson
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Upper Level View Of Tijuana With Buddha And Bart Simpsondescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 214) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics
title A Lesson In Civicsdescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 203) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Animal Culture Classrooms Insite94 Kitsch Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
You Can'T Get There From Here
title You Can'T Get There From Heredescription Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego, Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) The collaborative contribution to inSITE94 by San Diego artists Mario Lara and Barbara Sexton, "You Can't Get There from Here/No puedes ir allá desde aquí," was located at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. Consisting of two main elements, the installation dealt with the relationship between trophies of achievement and the individual self-image that often dispels the very essence of what is publicly recognized. The artists created numerous plaques and trophies that were displayed salon style on the walls of the space, while the other central element, a billboard prop, outwardly proclaimed the word PARADISO. - inSITE94 This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 200) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Collaboration Humor Pistols Collage--Technique Border Art Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Insite94 Maps Plaques (Flat Objects) Trophies (Objects) Installations (Visual Works) Californiacontributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Stairs Above Mid-Level With Girl Reading, Virgin Of Guadalupe, Bassett, Porky
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Stairs Above Mid-Level With Girl Reading, Virgin Of Guadalupe, Bassett, Porkydescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 215) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics
title A Lesson In Civicsdescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 204) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Animal Culture Classrooms Insite94 Kitsch Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Los Vendedores De Tijuana
title Los Vendedores De Tijuanadescription Drawings and Watercolors Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College Paintings San Diego-based artist Roberto Salas created an installation titled "Los vendedores de Tijuana" for inSITE94. Drawing from his own experience of selling a variety of things as a child, Salas made a selection of the traditional items one would find being offered while waiting to cross the border from Mexico to the United states. Anyone having been through that experience will know that vendors roam the rows of cars with all their wares draped across their bodies, stacked on their heads, or filling their arms. Salas chose to use the seemingly endless plaster cast figures made to appeal to American tourists, such as Mickey Mouse, skulls, hamburgers, Madonnas, Ninja Turtles, and so on, to create what he referred to as "monumental shamans of kitsch." --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 327) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Salas, Robertosubject Paintings (Visual Works) Portraits Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Totem Poles Kitsch Insite94 Street Vendors Drawings (Visual Works) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Mid-Landing Right Stair With Earth Goddess, Mayan Dog, Monkey, Conch Shell
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Mid-Landing Right Stair With Earth Goddess, Mayan Dog, Monkey, Conch Shelldescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 216) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Macconnel, Kimsubject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics: Detail Of Stack Of "Books"
title A Lesson In Civics: Detail Of Stack Of "Books"description Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 205) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lowe, Jeansubject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Insite94 Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Los Vendedores De Tijuana
title Los Vendedores De Tijuanadescription Drawings and Watercolors Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College Paintings San Diego-based artist Roberto Salas created an installation titled "Los vendedores de Tijuana" for inSITE94. Drawing from his own experience of selling a variety of things as a child, Salas made a selection of the traditional items one would find being offered while waiting to cross the border from Mexico to the United states. Anyone having been through that experience will know that vendors roam the rows of cars with all their wares draped across their bodies, stacked on their heads, or filling their arms. Salas chose to use the seemingly endless plaster cast figures made to appeal to American tourists, such as Mickey Mouse, skulls, hamburgers, Madonnas, Ninja Turtles, and so on, to create what he referred to as "monumental shamans of kitsch." --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 328) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Salas, Robertosubject Paintings (Visual Works) Portraits Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Totem Poles Kitsch Insite94 Street Vendors Drawings (Visual Works) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients: Stairway Landing With Statues Of The Buddha And A Young Girl
title Stairway Of The Ancients: Stairway Landing With Statues Of The Buddha And A Young Girldescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 217) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics: Detail Of "Books" On Bookshelf
title A Lesson In Civics: Detail Of "Books" On Bookshelfdescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 206) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94 [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lowe, Jeansubject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Kitsch Insite94 Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Stairway Of The Ancients
title Stairway Of The Ancientsdescription "Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art. La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 02, Item 218) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Popular Culture Stairs Aesthetics Graffiti Statues Humor Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Architecture (Object Genre) Decoration And Ornament Insite94 Kitsch Toys (Recreational Artifacts) Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere -
Los Vendedores De Tijuana
title Los Vendedores De Tijuanadescription Drawings and Watercolors Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College Paintings San Diego-based artist Roberto Salas created an installation titled "Los vendedores de Tijuana" for inSITE94. Drawing from his own experience of selling a variety of things as a child, Salas made a selection of the traditional items one would find being offered while waiting to cross the border from Mexico to the United states. Anyone having been through that experience will know that vendors roam the rows of cars with all their wares draped across their bodies, stacked on their heads, or filling their arms. Salas chose to use the seemingly endless plaster cast figures made to appeal to American tourists, such as Mickey Mouse, skulls, hamburgers, Madonnas, Ninja Turtles, and so on, to create what he referred to as "monumental shamans of kitsch." --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 326) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Salas, Robertosubject Paintings (Visual Works) Portraits Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Totem Poles Kitsch Insite94 Street Vendors Drawings (Visual Works) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
Richard Nixon: Wax Figure Of Richard Nixon Holding Audio Tapes
title Richard Nixon: Wax Figure Of Richard Nixon Holding Audio Tapesdescription California artist Jeffrey Vallance proposed to make an intervention at the Tijuana Wax Museum for inSITE2000. Collaborating with Mexico City-based wax-figure maker Victor Hugo Yanez, Vallance produced three new figures for the museum: the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dante, and former US President Richard Nixon. Vallance started with a list of about twenty-eight names of historical and contemporary figures as potential additions to the display at the museum, and arrive at the selection of the three figures based on the existing exhibition structure. The Virgin of Guadalupe could be seen in full figure situated on her own, while Nixon was placed in the presidential room holding in his hands the symbolic element that came to define his public career, a simulated set of reel-to-reel Watergate tapes, and Dante was placed at the entrance to hell with his hand pointing the way. With his project for the Wax Museum, Vallance deepened his own interest and fascination with the three selected figures. In this way, having followed stories for years from different parts of the world detailing apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Vallance, during a residency period in San Diego, could add yet another apparition to the list - he spotted her up high on a stone column at the Courtyard by Marriott downtown hotel. -- inSITE2000 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 385) Tijuana Wax Museum [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Wax Figures Evidence (Law) Popular Culture Politicians Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Audiotapes Figurative Art Mexican-American Border Region Corruption Kitsch Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 Waxworks Insite2000 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere -
A Lesson In Civics: Project Proposal: Found Poster Of Rabbit Anatomy
title A Lesson In Civics: Project Proposal: Found Poster Of Rabbit Anatomydescription Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 202) With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo, the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mache that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. -MKK [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Lowe, Jeansubject Libraries Political Art Humor Books Education Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Animal Culture Classrooms Insite94 Kitsch Posters Parody Installations (Visual Works)contributor Calisphere