tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73695952011-07-30T20:56:54.026-05:00Earning Art Cred through Art School in Portland, Oregon at a school called PNCA.Mark Anthonynoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369595.post-88670824123614721062010-05-18T12:23:00.004-05:002010-11-04T23:35:30.913-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EPSTE0mm3mA/S_LO3Can-7I/AAAAAAAAANI/LpxC_jOkqWg/s1600/Martinez_+El+Cosmico.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EPSTE0mm3mA/S_LO3Can-7I/AAAAAAAAANI/LpxC_jOkqWg/s320/Martinez_+El+Cosmico.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472663942145244082" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EPSTE0mm3mA/S_LO2velumI/AAAAAAAAANA/f29tElU5_Vs/s1600/Scrambled+Jets.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EPSTE0mm3mA/S_LO2velumI/AAAAAAAAANA/f29tElU5_Vs/s320/Scrambled+Jets.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472663937061599842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EPSTE0mm3mA/S_LO2ASKuWI/AAAAAAAAAM4/3aLy6ILw_uQ/s1600/El+Cosmico+%28etch%29.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EPSTE0mm3mA/S_LO2ASKuWI/AAAAAAAAAM4/3aLy6ILw_uQ/s320/El+Cosmico+%28etch%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472663924393032034" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />From the Lame, yet wonderful city of San Antonio.<br /><br />I explore the topics of cultural identity, Mexican-American heritage, racism in America, the moral dilemmas of technology and the aesthetics and subversive reintegration of folk art into contemporary society through chicano inconography.<br /><br />More specifically I explore the experience of assimilation and how to extend the dialogue beyond a false dichotomy, of the "us vs. them" fallacy which happens when assimilated populations are confronted with the perceived ‘other’.<br /><br />Personally these issues of acculturation and liminality are a challenge but artistically these are grounds for great inspiration.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7369595-8867082412361472106?l=anemoneriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mark Anthonynoreply@blogger.com0