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Frank Romero: California Dreaming at the Luis de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles

Frank Romero: California Dreaming Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, CA September 13 – October 25, 2025 Video by L.A. Art Documents / www.laartdocuments.com ________________________________________________________ Text Source: https://www.luisdejesus.com/exhibitio... Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to announce Frank Romero: California Dreaming, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings alongside seminal works, including painted and neon sculptures—a new milestone in the celebrated Chicano artist’s six-decade career. The exhibition will span Galleries 1 and 2 and run from September 13 to October 25, 2025, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 13, from 4:00-7:00 p.m. Dreams are fertile ground for myths, icons, and symbols. They chart surreal journeys through hope and fear, past and future—an emotional terrain we’re left to interpret upon waking. California itself, a storied land of dreamers from across the globe, continues to inspire Chicano art pioneer Frank Romero. Throughout his prolific career, Romero has cultivated a visual vocabulary that embodies shared experiences, pride, notions of identity, home, belonging, and the many complexities and joys of Chicanx life, resonating with Angelenos and beyond. Frank Romero: California Dreaming invites viewers to a nighttime drive—from the glimmering boulevards of Hollywood to the vast openness of the Sonoran Desert, which straddles both the Northwest of Mexico and the American Southwest. Through abstracted nightscapes illuminated by Romero’s signature expressionist color palette, galvanized by bold brushstrokes, iconic vintage cars cruise beneath starry skies and glowing neon, driving past palm trees, saguaros, and landmark symbols of Los Angeles’ cinematic golden age—the Brown Derby, the Cinerama Dome, and the Chinese Theater. Frank Romero (b.1941, Los Angeles, CA) is among the most influential pioneers of the Chicano Art Movement. Romero employs various media—including painting, neon, sculpture, and murals—to explore narratives related to the Chicanx experience, Latin American heritage, and American Pop culture. Pulling together a diverse cast of signs and symbols to invent a visual language reflective of the multiculturalism at the core of the Chicanx community, his works provide insight into his life as both an artist and a Mexican American from East LA. Romero has spent his life traveling, living, and working between Los Angeles, New York, New Mexico, and France, which has expanded his ideas of identity and Chicanidad (Chicanx identity) beyond urban settings or the complexities of a single city. His visual explorations of Chicanidad stand as cornerstones of this period that arose from El Movimiento, the Mexican American social and political civil rights movement that began in the early 1970s. Romero, along with fellow artists Carlos Almaraz, Gilbert “Magu” Lujan, and Roberto de la Rocha, co-founded the artist collective Los Four, whose 1974 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the country's first Chicano exhibition at a major arts institution. Romero’s works are included in such prominent collections as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside, CA; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; The Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, and others. He has completed over 15 murals throughout Los Angeles and was a key contributor to the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival with Going to the Olympics, a large-scale mural painted along one of Los Angeles’ busiest freeways, the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. Highway 101) in Downtown Los Angeles, a scene loved by millions throughout the decades.