Patssi Valdez
(USA, 1951)
Patssi Valdez is a visual artist and a founding member of the art collective ASCO. Her artistic contributions in ASCO challenged the dominant narrative of the Chicano Movement and Chicano Art to provide an expanded and contemporary vision of Chicana/o identity. Her work with ASCO contributed to a Chicana feminist critique of the socioeconomic and sociopolitical reality of the Chicano community living in the United States. In her visual art practice including paintings, Valdez works to capture what is going on for her internally and spatially.
Over the span of her career, her varied art practices of photography, painting, paper fashion and installation has led to her work being widely exhibited and collected in the United States an abroad. Valdez currently continues making art here in Los Angeles."
