EAST OF NO WEST

In conjunction with the Asco exhibition, LACMA commissioned Willie Herrón to create a mural, "Asco: East of No West", based on Harry Gamboa Jr.'s photograph of the 1972 Asco performance "Walking Mural". "Walking Mural" was a street performance in which the artists created elaborate costumes and paraded silently along Whittier Boulevard. The new mural recalls and reinterprets that performance. It is part of a series of mural by Herrón in the alley at City Terrace Drive, behind Alvarez Bakery near Cal State LA.

"Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987" is on view at LACMA through December 4, 2011.

Video production: Alexa Oona Schulz

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Education

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• Willie Herrón
• Asco
• mural
• East Los Angeles
• museum
• contemporary art
• Chicano
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