Art in 'Land of Milk and Honey,' a lively, engaging and sometimes sobering group exhibition at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, casts a skeptical eye on California agriculture.
’s circles of stones gathered on hikes through the natural landscape, or German artist Wolfgang Laib’s gatherings of generative staples like flower pollen and rice. Urrea’s collecting excursions take place in neighborhoods like South L.A., where she lives and works, in “food deserts” marked by convenience stores rather than groceries or farmers markets.
On the other side is “Labor.” It glances off the cultivation and distribution of bounty, whether by Japanese, Filipino or Latin American immigrants who tilled the land, or in modernist architecture, like the Albert Lopez Jr. sculpture of a suspended enclosure based on Mondrian’s paintings, pierced with a grid-pattern of windows whose design replicates those in an Orange County jail.
and Javier Tapia, produced with the aid of high-tech drones, follows the glistening water and its impact from high in the cloud-swept Rocky Mountains to the desiccated edge of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert and Mexico’s Sea of Cortez.is a collaboration with director Nicolás García, photographer Ruben Diaz, musician Steve Rioux and the two artists.
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