New and Continuing Events
OLVERA STREET! SATURDAY 1 - 4 pm. Art and taquitos - no better way for you to spend your Saturday afternoon than with Margaret Garcia + more at El Tranquilo Gallery... bring an appetite...
Selections form Margaret Garcia's "Un Nuevo Mestizaje" series (1983-present) on the walls at Tranquilo Gallery, Olvera Street (Los Angeles, CA).
Art critic, curator and artist Jimmy Centeno writes about Margaret's series - "In Nuevo Mestizaje (1987-2001) Garcia explores the outcome of interracial marriages, relationships, and encounters (in many cases forced encounters) in Las Americas. The offspring of these relationships (friends and acquaintances of Garcia) have served Garcia as a point of inspiration for this series of paintings. It is an attempt to understand a time and moment in the history and complexity of race in modern times. Nuevo Mestizaje captures the most diverse biological and cultural fusion between people and cultures of a region known as Latin America and the Caribbean."
Images - Oil on Wood Panel w 24 x h 24 in. (I-r) (top) (1) Brian Paul Kuba - Filipino/Hawaiian - art guy (2023), (2) Kraig Blue - the Kindest Face (2009), (3)Nyelli - Budding Artist (1992), (4) Shizu Saldamando - Artist (2002). All available.
Margaret in conversation about her 50-year career as a Chicana painter. Join us and our friends at the Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles on June 27th. See you there…
Join Margaret at Olvera Street in the old Pueblo this coming Saturday June 13, 2026. 11 am - 4 pm. Good works by good artists. Art to be had.
New Permanent Collection Exhibit “We the People: Chicano Art in the U.S.A.”. Survey of holdings, exhibiting new artists to the museum, some Texans including Guest Curator Benito Huerta as well core artists including Margaret. 05.30.2026 - 05.27.2027. Images of Margaret’s work in the show below
Margaret’s paintings from the permanent collection at the Cheech Center for Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum. 05/30/2026
Invitation
Past Events
Frank Romero Art and Design Studio Spring Sale. June 6 an 7, 2026. Hours: 1-6 pm. 2711 11th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90023. Join Margaret and Frank for event
Margaret and Frank have shown together nearly yearly since 1988 at Frank’s annual Christmas Show and Sale and now for his Spring Studio Sale. See you there.
Join Margaret, Frank Romero, Tina Arroyos and other artist this weekend. See you there
Group Show at Galeria Yasmin (Pomona, CA). Margaret’s work in the show. May 9, 2026 - June 27. Worth the drive.
ChimMaya / cm2’s Final Exhibit. We will miss you Steven and Dan. Folks - please see this exhibit - Margaret has three large pieces sin the show.
Amor del Pueblo. Galeria Yasmin (Pomona, CA). Meet the Artists Panel. Instagram - panelists (Left to right) Rick Ortega, Antonio Rael, Hector Silva, Tina Arroyos, Margaret Garcia, Ruben Zavala, Art Carrillo, John Garcia, Jr.
Panel Discussion at Galeria admin, Pomona, CA 04/11/2026.
Join us at the opening of Chicano Art Collectors Jaime Gutierrez and Yasmin Cordon’s new Galeria Yasmin. Works from their collections ws well as new works from several artists. . Pomona Valentine’s Day February 14gth 2026. Be there
Valentine’s Day in Pomona celebrating the opening Galeria Yasmin. CHICANO ART.
My three new portraits - never shown (L-r): Jen, Arlene and Lupe. All three in series: 2025. w 24 x h 31.5 in. Oil on Wood Panel.. Available $2,500 ea.
Closing Program: Common Ground
Saturday, Jan. 17, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 pm.
In 1986, the Brockman Gallery presented Common Ground, a landmark exhibition that invited audiences to reflect on the shared struggles, creative expressions, and cultural values of underrepresented artists across communities. Curated by esteemed Chicana artist Linda Vallejo, the show affirmed, “We are all here together, living on common ground.”
While Brockman is best known as a center of the Black Arts Movement in Los Angeles, the Davis brothers were committed to promoting outstanding underrepresented artists more broadly, supporting Asian American, Latinx, and women artists, and fostering meaningful cultural exchange through collaborative exhibitions and curatorial partnerships.
Moderated by acclaimed scholar, curator, and critic Dr. Tiffany E. Barber, the panel will explore Brockman’s inclusive philosophy, its role in community-building, and its enduring impact on Leimert Park and beyond. Participants will include Margaret Garcia, Michael Massenberg, Linda Vallejo, and others, artists whose work has intersected with the legacy of the Brockman Gallery and who continue to embody the foundational values of Common Ground.
The afternoon will conclude with a live musical benediction by The Voices of Creation, whose rousing performance closes the exhibition with collective joy, reverence, and uplift
Cheech Collects 4, The Cheech Center for Chicano Art and Culture (Riverside, CA). Exhibit opens June 7, 2025 and runs thru May 2026
Cheech Collects 4. The Cheech Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Museum (Riverside, CA). Margaret stands in front of her “Fire Wall” at the Cheech, June 2025
Cheech Collects 4. The Cheech Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Museum (Riverside, CA). Two of Margaret Garcia pastel monoprints from the Cheech collection on display, June 2025
Artists, Community and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles. The Brockman Gallery is/was Los Angeles’ oldest black-owned art gallery. Created as a place for black and people of color to exhibit their work. In 1986 Margaret Garcia and artist Gilbert (Magu) Lujan, were invited to exhibit art the gallery. This museum retrospective was organized by LACMA and three regional museums. Two of Margaret’s serigraph prints from that 1986 exhibit “Magu y Maguey” are in LACMA’s permanent collection and are on display in this exhibit. See the exhibit at the Vincent Price Museum (Monterey Park, CA)
Recent Past Events
A major Xicana / Chicana exhibit opens on June 20, 2025, at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, CA. The Xicana! San Diego exhibit brings together over 100 artists from both Los Angeles and San Diego to celebrate Chicana art this landmark exhibit.
This exhibit features the Stamp Project, Creating Cultural Currency, a print collaboration created by Margaret Garcia in 2010 of over 90 artists who, in teams, produced over 110 prints.
In addition to the prints, Margaret will be exhibiting portraits of her community from her Un Nuevo Mestizaje (the New Mixture) series as well several large landscapes and portraits as well as the painting Chilis en Enogado (Chilis and Pomegranates), shown above, from Margaret’s “Abundance” series.
Margaret spoke about her serigraph prints in the museum collection in a special study day for the museum.