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Exhibits, Accomplishments *
Joined
the Arts and Letters Council of the Mexican Museum
of San Francisco
August
2013
I
accepted an invitation to join the Arts
and Letters Council of the Mexican Museum of San Francisco.
By accepting the position I have become part of a
group of esteemed artists, writers, and scholars who
have lent their names in support of the museum and
its upcoming expansion. The Mexican Museum is the
only San Francisco museum that is an affiliate of
the Smithsonian Institution, and it holds a growing
permanent collection of over 14,000 Pre-Hispanic,
Colonial, Popular, Modern and Contemporary Mexican,
Latino, and Chicano artworks. It is the largest such
collection in the continental United States.
Prison
Nation: Posters On The Prison Industrial Complex
Traveling
exhibition
October
27, 2012 through December 21, 2012
My
silkscreen print, To
Protect and Serve the Rich - Jail the Homeless
(created in 1987), is part of the Prison Nation
traveling exhibit of posters. The show opened on January
19, 2013 at the UC Merced Kolligian Library on the
campus of the University of California, Merced. Curated
by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics
(CSPG) of Los Angeles, California, Prison Nation
is a touring exhibit of historic posters that focus
on the reality of the prison-industrial-complex as
practiced in The Golden State. The show travels to
five other venues in California’s San Joaquin Valley
and Inland Empire areas over the course of the next
two years.
From
Equinox to Solstice: Reflections on a Mayan Calendar
La
Galeria Gitana - City of San Fernando, California
October
27, 2012 through December 21, 2012
I
premiered my oil painting, Spirit
of Aztlán,
at the exhibition. Curated by Los Angeles painter
Raoul de la Sota, the group exhibit explored themes
surrounding two important calendar events from ancient
Mesoamerica - the Aztec Día de los Muertos (Day of
the Dead) and the end of the Maya calendar.
Faraway,
So Close: Photographs of Los Angeles in the '80s
Morono
Kiang Gallery
February
4, 2012 through March 31, 2012
I
exhibited six never before shown photos at Faraway,
So Close, a group exhibition of photographs on
the theme of Los Angeles as it existed between the
years 1980 and 1989. Running from February 4, 2012,
to March 31, 2012, the exhibit also featured works
by Sara Jane Boyers, Edward Colver, Willie Middlebrook,
Ann Summa, May Sun, Shervin Shahbazi, and Richard
Wyatt. Read
more about the exhibit here.
Read the Los
Angeles Times review of the exhibit.
Gallery
of California Art
Permanent Collection
Oakland
Museum of California Art.
A
reproduction of my artwork, No
Human Being Is Illegal,
is included in the Gallery of California History at
the Oakland Museum of California. The museum placed
my artwork in its new "California: To Be Continued"
gallery wing, which opened to the public on September
30, 2011. An original print of No Human Being Is
Illegal has also been incorporated into the museum's
permanent collection.
Under
the Big Black Sun:
California Art 1974 - 1981
Geffen
Contemporary MOCA Los Angeles.
October 1, 2011 through February 13, 2012
A
comprehensive survey of California artists during
an extraordinary period of American history. My 1980
silkscreen poster, Whatever Happened To The Future!
is included in the exhibition and also the exhibit
catalog. Artists include Carlos Almaraz, John Baldessari,
Juan Cervantes and Royal Chicano Air Force, Judy Chicago,
Bruce Conner, Llyn Foulkes, Gronk, Suzanne Lacy, Malaquías
Montoya, Gary Panter, Herbert Sigüenza, Bruce Nauman,
Masami Teraoka, and others too numerous to list.
Peace
Press Graphics 1967-1987:
Art in the Pursuit of Social Change
University
Art Museum, California State University Long Beach.
September 10 to December 11, 2011
An
important showing of over 100 historic posters and
flyers published by Peace Press, a now defunct Los
Angeles collective that ran a professional print shop
serving the local and national needs of radical and
progressive political groups and organizations. I
have six artworks in the exhibit, and four additional
graphic works in the exhibit catalog. Artists in the
show include the likes of Robert Crumb, Skip Williamson,
and Rupert García. The exhibit is part of the Getty
Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945
- 1980, the largest collaborative art project in Southern
California history.
¡ADELANTE!
Mexican-American
Artists: 1960s and Beyond
Forest
Lawn Museum.
September 9, 2011 through January 1, 2012.
A
major exhibit exploring Chicano art. Paintings, drawings,
prints, sculptures, and photographs of some forty
artists. I am showing two oil paintings created especially
for the show, "Libros No Bombas" (Books Not Bombs),
and "La Causa" (The Cause). Co-exhibitors include
the likes of Judy Baca; Barbara Carrasco; Margaret
García; Ignacio Gomez; Wayne Healy; Leo Limón; Frank
Romero; Patssi Valdez, and a host of others. A few
of the works on view are from the Cheech Marin Collection,
one of the most important private collections of Chicano
art in the United States.
Art
For Haiti - Group
Show
José
Vera Fine Art Gallery.
February 5-28, 2011
A
month long exhibition of artworks related to the people,
culture, and history of Haiti. I submitted a 23 x
25 inch black and white drawing titled, Uproot.
The artwork was used by the gallery to promote the
exhibit. Proceeds from the sale of artworks were used
to provide direct material aid to the Haitian people,
who are still suffering from the devastating 2010
earthquake.
Signs
Petition: Artists Against BP funding
The
Guardian: June 28, 2010 edition.
In protest of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico,
and in opposition to BP funding arts institutions
like the Tate Britain and the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, I put my name to a petition published in the
letters section of Britain’s Guardian on June 28,
2010. The appeal was signed by 170 other international
arts professionals including Hans Haacke and Lucy
R. Lippard. Artinfo described the petition as an "Army
of Art-World Protesters Against BP Funding."
Interviewed
by WARP Magazine
July
2010 edition.
WARP, the Spanish language glossy magazine from Mexico
that focuses on the international contemporary music
scene, arts, culture, cinema, and more, conducted
an interview with me that appeared in the monthly’s
July 2010 print edition.
2010
Lectures on David Alfaro Siqueiros
Multiple
venues.
In September, October, and November of 2010, I delivered
three separate lectures on the Mexican muralist, David
Alfaro Siqueiros; "A Print Dialogue: Siqueiros & The
Graphic Arts." (Sept. 18th at the Center For The Arts
in Eagle Rock, California. Panel discussion sponsored
by the Autry Museum and organized by the José Vera
Gallery). "Siqueiros & the Mexican School of Social
Realism." (Oct. 23 lecture at the José Vera Gallery).
"David Alfaro Siqueiros & the 'Bloc of Painters' -
American Social Realism in the 1930s." (Nov. 6 lecture
at the Mexican Cultural Institute in L.A., California).
365
& Counting
Avenue
50 Studio. Highland Park, California.
Nov. 14 - Dec. 6, 2009
A group exhibit that provided insights into the first
year of the Obama Administration. Issues of race,
class, war, health care, the environment and the economy,
plus other global challenges - were explored in this
timely exhibition of works by 15 Los Angeles artists.
Given the escalating war in Afghanistan, I created
a new oil painting especially for the show - a depiction
of a prisoner held in Bagram Prison, Afghanistan.
Dia
de los Muertos - Day of the Dead -
Group show
Bakersfield
Museum of Art.
Sept. 17 - Nov. 22, 2009
I exhibited two oil paintings in this group show of
nine artists, featuring the prints of Mexican master
printmaker, José Guadalupe Posada.
Chicana/Chicano
Biennial - Group
show
MACLA Gallery San Jose, California.
June 5 - Aug. 8, 2009
I exhibited with 19 other artists including, Juan
Fuentes, Yolanda M. López and Margarita Cabrera; exploring
the theme of Chicano art in the U.S. today.
Man's
Inhumanity To Man -
Group show
Brand Library Gallery & Art
Center Glendale, California.
April 4 - May 8, 2009
Forty four artists participated in the exhibit, which
examined human rights violations that have occurred
around the globe - the 1915 Armenian genocide, the
Jewish Holocaust, repression in Central America, current
atrocities in Darfur, and more. Azalea Iñiguez of
Telemundo T52 - the L.A. affiliate of the second largest
Spanish-language TV network in the U.S., interviewed
me
on her Cambiando el Mundo (Changing the World) segment
of May 6, 2009. The interview took place at the Brand
Gallery.
War
& Empire: The Art of Democracy -
Group show
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco,
California.
Sept. 4 - Nov. 4, 2008.
I exhibited with Fernando Botero, Sandow Birk, Guy
Colwell, Art Hazelwood, Bella Feldman, William T.
Wiley, and others. The
exhibit
was a collective statement on the political situation
in the United States during the run up to the presidential
elections.
Fundamental
- Traveling European
exhibit. Group show with multiple venues
Sept. 2007 - June 2008
Fundamental is an international touring art exhibition
that explores the prickly subject of fundamental religious
intolerance at the turn of the 21st century. My painting,
A People Under Command, is included in the exhibit,
which tours four European cities, Manchester, England
- Madrid, Spain - Berlin, Germany - Leeds, England.
Angels
& Demons: Blessed or Possessed
A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
Nov. 2007 - Jan. 2008
The gallery asked me to jury their exhibit on the
topic of spiritual good and evil. Co-jurors: Francisco
Letelier, artist; Carol Wells, dir. Ctr. for Study
of Political Graphics.
Dia
de los Muertos
2nd City Council Art Gallery and Performance Space,
Long Beach, California.
October - November 2007
The 2nd City Council Gallery asked me to jury their
Day of the Dead exhibit.
30TH
Anniversary DVD release of "Sid & Nancy" film
Interviewed for DVD bonus featurette - "For the
Love of Punk"
October 2007
Appearance on DVD special feature accompanying "Sid
& Nancy", Alex Cox's film about Sex Pistols' anti-hero
Sid Vicious and his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
The invitation to play a role in the feature documentary
was based upon my participation as an artist in the
early LA punk scene.
Religion,
Politics and Society
Lake Arrowhead Gallery & Museum of Art, Sky Forest,
California.
May - July 2007
I exhibited several paintings alongside artworks by
John Paul Thornton, Dolores Guerrero-Torres, Paul
Batou, and others in this group exhibit.
Utopia
A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
Nov - Dec. 2006
I juried this group exhibit along with Mark Greenfield,
Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
and Alice Wexler, author and biographer of Emma Goldman.
The show's theme was "earthly dreams of paradise and
possibility."
Spirit
of the Children
Avenue 50 Studio. Highland Park, Los Angeles, California.
Oct - Nov, 2006
An unusual "Day of the Dead" group exhibit that paid
homage to the children of the world who have died
from preventable causes. My painting, War Child,
was created specifically for this exhibit.
Chicano:
Pronouncing Diversity
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock California.
Sept - Nov. 2006
A group exhibit celebrating established and emerging
Chicano artists. Curated by Gilbert "Magú" Luján (RIP).
At
Work: The Art of California Labor
Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
June - Aug. 2006
At
Work: The Art of California Labor was
a group show that focused on the subject of California's
rich labor history since the turn of the 20th century.
Some of the fifty artists in the exhibit include Diego
Rivera, Tina Modotti, Dorothea Lange, Ester Hernandez,
Yolanda Lopez, and Malaquias Montoya. I unveiled a
new oil painting created especially for this exhibit.
The
New Normalcy
Carlotta's Passion Fine Art, Eagle Rock, California.
February - March, 2006
The
New Normalcy
was a group exhibit that examined the post 9-11 world.
Others in the show included Robbie Conal, Margaret
Garcia, Francisco Letelier, and Gilbert "Magú" Luján.
Something
Newd
Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, California.
February - March, 2006
Curated by J. Michael Walker, the exhibit was dedicated
to "thoughtful meditations on the human figure." I
created a suite of mono-prints specifically for this
group show.
Don't
Talk About Religion or Politics
Group exhibit curated for Avenue 50 Studio, Highland
Park, California.
Jan - Feb. 2006
I curated and exhibited in, Don't
Talk About Religion or Politics, a group
show for Avenue 50 Studio. The exhibit presented artworks
with controversial spiritual and political themes.
The show included artists John Paul Thornton, Poli
Marichal, Gwyneth Leech, and Sergio Hernandez.
Both
Sides of the Border
Carlotta's Passion Fine Art, Eagle Rock, California.
Nov - Dec. 2005
A major group exhibition of Latin American and Chicano
art. The show included works by Francisco Zuniga,
Jean Charlot, Wilfedo Lam, Gronk, Patssi Valdez, Margaret
Garcia, Frank Romero, Gilbert "Magú" Luján, and Diane
Gamboa.
Demise
of Democracy?
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA)
Long Beach, California.
Nov. 2005
A juried group show that presented works questioning
the status of democracy in the US.
Conflict:
Works on Paper
Juried group exhibit. Brand Library Art Galleries,
Glendale, California.
Dec. 05 - Jan, 2006
Both of my submitted entries won awards for excellence,
at the Thirty-Fourth Annual National Exhibition at
the L.C. Brand Gallery in Glendale, California.
Workers
of the World
A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
Nov - Dec. 2005
I displayed several paintings at this group exhibition
dedicated to the theme of workers - from their struggles
to survive to their labors of love.
Emerging
From Aztlán
dA Center for the Arts, Pomona California.
Oct - Nov, 2005
Third annual Chicano art show held at the dA Center
for the Arts in Pomona, California.
Dia
de los Muertos: The Journey Home
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois.
Sept - Dec, 2005
The museum selected my painting, Dia de los Muertos,
for inclusion in its annual Day of the Dead art exhibit.
Journal
of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) #20, Fall 2004
The semiannual publication of the American Studies
Association of Turkey, JAST publishes work in English
by scholars of various nationalities on the subject
of American art and culture. In his article, Southern
California Artists Challenge America, Paul Von
Blum referred to me as "A key figure in Southern Californian
socially conscious art."
Elect
This!
SPARC Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
Sept 11th. - Nov 2nd. 2004
Curated by Judy Baca, this group show focused on the
issues of war, human rights, and the US elections.
YO!
What Happened To Peace?
International Traveling Exhibit, multiple venues,
2004.
An ongoing traveling exhibit of antiwar prints curated
by artist, John Carr. The show has been displayed
at multiple venues in L.A., Boston, New York, and
Chicago, as well as openings in Tokyo, Japan, Milan,
Italy, and several Scandinavian cities. Some of the
artists in the exhibit included Eric Drooker, Poli
Marichal, Seth Tobocman, and Winston Smith. My works
were also published in the accompanying exhibition
catalogue, "YO! What Happened To Peace?"
Mark
Vallen: More Than A Witness
Solo exhibit. A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles,
California.
July - Aug, 2004
Retrospective exhibit encompassing thirty years of
work. Respected author Paul Von Blum (The Critical
Vision - A History of Social and Political Art in
the US and Other Voices, Other Visions: Women
Political Artists in Los Angeles), writes the
exhibit catalog. The LA Times Magazine covers the
show in their Aug. 22nd edition.
Wild
In The Streets
Autry National Center/Museum of the American West,
Los Angeles, California.
June 18th 2004
A one day special exhibit to coincide with the museum's
"Wild in the Streets" punk rock summer concert.
Some of my early punk rock artworks, including LA
Weekly and Slash magazine cover illustrations, are
displayed alongside drawings by Raymond Pettibon.
Peace
Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated
Gustavo Gili Publisher. Released Nov 2004
My drawing, Not Our Children, Not Their Children,
was selected for publication in this collection of
antiwar artworks compiled by Spain's leading graphic
design and architectural publisher, Gustavo Gili.
Dissenting
Views - Calendar
Released January 2004
Editors of the 49th Annual Calendar released by the
War Resisters League selected my drawing, Not Our
Children, Not Their Children, for publication.
Also chosen as featured artist in the calendar against
war and violence, were artists Sue Coe, Judy Chicago,
Nancy Spero, Stephen Kroninger, and Milton Glaser.
War
Stories
A Shenere Velt Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
Nov. 2003 - Jan. 2004
Group exhibit of artworks that focused on the horror
and folly of war. My entry, a pencil drawing titled
We're making a killing in Central America,
was awarded an honorable mention prize.
30
Years of Chicano Printmaking & Social Justice
Self Help Graphics & Art, East Los Angeles, California.
Oct. 2003 Group exhibit of artworks that focused on
issues of social concern. I exhibited alongside artists
Ricardo Duffy, Victor Ochoa, Yreina Cervantez, and
others.
Light
Among Shadows
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California.
July - Aug 2003
Group exhibit celebrating human rights activism throughout
North and South America. I exhibited alongside artists,
Judy Baca, J. Michael Walker, Francisco Letelier,
and others.
Reaching
To Embrace Arts
Inshallah Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
July 2003
Special exhibit and auction of artworks to raise money
for programs promoting youth arts education in the
L.A. Unified School District. I exhibited alongside
artists, Ricardo Duardo, John van Hamersveld, MearOne,
Mick Haggerty, and others.
Ready
for War
University Galleries of Illinois State University,
Chicago, Illinois.
March 2003
I exhibited several works in this group exhibit that
focused on antiwar statements. Nearly 100 artists
from across the United States contributed pieces to
the show.
The
Art of Punk
Kantor Gallery, West Los Angeles, California.
February - March 2003
The premiere exhibit for the new Kantor Gallery in
Los Angeles, this group exhibit presented my artworks
from the heyday of L.A.'s punk rock scene. My original
drawings and cover illustrations for SLASH magazine
were exhibited alongside works by Raymond Pettibon,
Emek, and Dave Leamon.
The
Antiwar Artshow: The Price of Intervention from Korea
to Iraq
Track 16 Gallery. Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa
Monica, California.
Jan - Feb 2003
One of my silkscreen prints from the early 1980s was
included in this exhibit of historic antiwar posters
designed by professional and amateur artists alike.
Expressions
Without Borders
El Pueblo Art Gallery, Olvera Street, Los Angeles,
California.
July - Sept, 2002
I exhibited at this major Chicano art show at L.A.'s
El Pueblo Historical Monument. Sponsored by the Mexican
Cultural Institute and L.A. Council member Alex Padilla.
Just
Another Poster?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California
Traveling museum show, multiple venues.
June 2001 - Sept 2003
My works were included in this exhibit of Chicano
poster art collected from the late 1960s to the present.
Fifty different artists are represented in the exhibition
including Rupert Garcia, Gilbert "Magú" Luján, Diane
Gamboa, Yreina Cervantez, Richard Duardo, Carlos Almaraz,
and many others. The show opened at UCLA's Fowler
Museum of Cultural History (June 2001), and traveled
to the Oakland Museum of California, the Merced Multicultural
Arts Center, the Jersey City Museum, and finally the
Crocker Art Museum and La Raza/Galeria Posada in Sacramento
California.
We
Shall Not Be Moved: Posters, Gentrification and Resistance
UCLA Downtown Labor Center, Los Angeles, California.
October 14th - November 10th, 2002.
My serigraphs were included in this traveling exhibit
of posters showing the plight of the homeless and
diverse housing issues. Organized by the Los Angeles'
Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
The
Path of Resistance
- group exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York.
Nov. 2000 - Jan. 2001.
Two of my serigraphs were included in this exhibition
of contemporary protest art held at New York City's
Museum of Modern Art in 2000. The exhibit traced 40
years of socially critical and politically charged
art. Organized by Joshua Siegal and Susan Kismaric,
The Path of Resistance was itself part of MoMA's
"Open Ends," an exhibit cycle marking the millennium
that consisted of eleven different exhibits of art
from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Center
for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) receives
Vallen Portfolio - 1999
Thirty eight of my posters and drawings are made part
of the permanent collection of the CSPG archive. The
center collects, preserves, documents and circulates
domestic and international political posters promoting
social awareness. The CSPG has over 50,000 individual
works in its collection and mounts frequent regional,
national, and international exhibitions.
Los
Angeles: At the Center and on the Edge
Leband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University,
Los Angeles, California.
July - September 1997
A group exhibition of poster art detailing the unique
political history of the City of Los Angeles. Aside
from having works in the exhibit, I also gave a slide
lecture on Sept 24th that detailed my role as an L.A.
artist.
Twenty-Fifth
Annual Works on Paper
Southwest Texas State University Art Gallery, San
Marcos, Texas.
February 1995
I exhibited artworks at this International Group show
of works on paper juried by Lucy Lippard.
Twenty-Forth
Annual Works on Paper
Southwest Texas State University Art Gallery, San
Marcos, Texas.
February 1994
I exhibited artworks at this International Group show
of works on paper juried by Lucy Lippard.
History
is a People's Memory
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Santa
Monica, California.
March 6th - April 17th, 1993
I displayed original works at this group exhibition
celebrating the legacy of Malcolm X. Also included
in the show were works by Sue Coe and Emory Douglas.
Historic posters from the collections of the Center
for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), and the
Alden and Mary Kimbrough Collection were also on display.
Mark
Vallen - A Decade of Art Activism
Artsquad Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania.
May - June 1993
Solo exhibit of my posters and drawings created over
a span of ten years.
International
Institute of Social History (IISG) receives Vallen
Portfolio - 1993
Some of my selected works are introduced into this
important historical archive. The Dutch "International
Instituut Voor Sociale Geschiedenis" is an independent
organization founded in 1935. Its libraries and archives
hold one of the world's most important collections
of material from the Labor Movement. The IISG Poster
collection comprises over 40,000 pieces, from the
19th Century to the present. The collection is cataloged
and many works are available for study and exhibition.
Quincentennial
Project on Resistance and Survival
- Group Exhibit
Green Dragon Gallery, Santa Barbara, California. Sept.
1992.
UCSB Community Services Center, Santa Barbara, California.
October 1992. Group exhibition celebrating the history
and culture of Native Americans.
High
Performance Magazine for the New Arts - 1992
"The Verdict and the Violence" Special Summer
Edition publishes three of my illustrations condemning
violence and racial oppression in the aftermath of
the April 29th "Rodney King" riots that swept Los
Angeles.
Art
Commissioned by the Guatemalan Information Center
- 1989
The Guatemalan Information Center (GIC) of Los Angeles
commissioned me to create a monumental chalk pastel
drawing titled "Voices of Justice." The image
was published as a full color poster that announced
a GIC event held in the Council Chambers of Los Angeles
City Hall. The GIC event, a public forum designed
to bring attention to the human rights situation in
Guatemala, was the first of its kind in the United
States.
Ningun
ser Humano es Ilegal - self published street poster,
1988
Self-published a signature work, Ningun ser Humano
es Ilegal (No Human Being is Illegal), as a widely
distributed bilingual street poster.
Works
published in: "Frieden Und Umwelt - Politische
Plakatkunst Aus Den USA." - 1988
Four of my poster works were included in "Peace
and Environment - Political Posters from the USA,"
an art book of American posters published by the German
Institute for International Assistance and Solidarity
(IFIAS.) Other artists displayed in the book include,
Rupert Garcia, Rene Castro, Lincoln Cushing, and Doug
Minkler.
End
of the Rainbow - Sisters of Survival
Traveling group exhibit. Multiple venues. February
- March 1984
A number of my posters were in this exhibit, which
also included entries from artists all across the
U.S. and Western Europe. Organized by the L.A. based
art/performance group "Sisters of Survival" (S.O.S.),
the exhibit opened July 1983 at the Social and Public
Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice California.
The show traveled to the Franklin Furnace Gallery
in New York, the Student Union Gallery at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst, the Centre for Art Tapes
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and finally on to the Powerhouse
Gallery in Montreal, Canada. Exhibiting artists included
Jerry Kearns, Richard Duardo, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub,
and Judy Baca.
Slash
Magazine - Cover Illustration, 1980
I created the cover illustration for the very last
issue of the publication, which hit the newsstands
in 1980. The work, "Come Back To Haunt You,"
helped to spawn the Mohawk haircut craze in L.A.
L.A.
Weekly publishes Cover Illustration - 1980
My serigraphic print, "Nuclear War? There goes
my Career!" is published as the cover art for
the L.A. Weekly. A mawkish Situationist inspired parody
of Roy Lichtenstein's cartoon based imagery, my artwork
addressed the rising fear of nuclear war. At the close
of the 20th century, New York's Museum of Modern Art
would exhibit this poster in, The Path of Resistance,
MoMA's examination of politically charged art from
the 1960s to the late 1990s.
L.A.
Weekly publishes Cover Illustration - 1980
My serigraphic print, "Whatever happened to the
Future?" is published as the cover art for the
L.A. Weekly. The artwork illustrated an article on
the sense of hopelessness and malaise then gripping
the nation.
Slash
Magazine - Cover Illustration, 1979
Punk music magazine publishes first Vallen cover Illustration
The premiere punk rock publication in the U.S. in
the late 1970s was SLASH magazine. My pencil drawing
of Sue Tissue, lead singer for the band, Suburban
Lawns, was released as a cover for SLASH. The drawing
was later published in the book, "Hardcore California."
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