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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.