The first monograph on the exuberant, polymorphous art of Teddy Sandoval, whose work explored community, queerness and Chicano identity
Published with Vincent Price Art Museum and Williams College Museum of Art and Independent Curators International.
Accompanying the artists first retrospective, Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Artexamines the work of the inventive yet overlooked Los Angelesbased artist Teddy Sandoval (194995). A central figure in Los Angeless queer and Chicanx artistic circles, Sandoval was an active participant in international avant-garde movements. For 25 years, he produced subversive and playful artworks in a range of mediumsincluding ceramics, mail art, painting, printmaking, performance, photography, window displays and xerographythat explored the codes of gender and sexuality, particularly transforming conceptions of masculinity.
This expansive publication surveys Sandovals work alongside other queer, Latinx and Latin American artists whose practices profoundly resonate. The expansive catalog features essays by C. Ondine Chavoya, David Evans Frantz, Raquel Guti?rrez and Mari Rodriguez Binnie, as well as biographical entries on additional artists featured in the exhibition, among them, F?lix ?ngel, Myrna B?ez, ?lvaro Barrios, Ester Hern?ndez, Hudinilson Jr., Antonio Lopez, Mar?a Mart?nez-Ca?as, Marisol and Joey Terrill.
From this catalogue, one quickly gleans just how vast the networks of queer Chicano/as were that both physically attended locales like Butch Gardens and were connected through mail art under the same moniker.
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