Foundation takes in Teddy Sandoval

Vincent Price Museum Tour
with
Tom of Finland Foundation
10th February

Tour for Tom of Finland Foundation Members

Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art is the first museum retrospective dedicated to the inventive though overlooked artist Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995). A central figure in Los Angeles’s Queer and Chicanx artistic circles, Sandoval was an active participant in both U.S. and international avant-garde movements. For 25 years, he produced subversive, yet playful artworks that explored the codes of gender and sexuality and continuously mined archetypes of masculinity in his work through his signature icon of a faceless man.

Thank you to independent Co Curator David Evan Frantz and VPAM Curator Joseph Daniel Valencia who led the tour and the entire VPAM staff.

Hosted by ToFF.

In the spirit of collectivity suggested by the “school of art,” this exhibition includes works by other Queer, Latinx, and Latin American artists who share similar graphic sensibilities, approaches to media, or thematic interests. The exhibition proposes an alternative model for the solo survey that incorporates unanticipated affinities and parallel histories across the Americas.

Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art 
Vincent Price Art Museum –  East Los Angeles College
Through 2nd March

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Published: 11th February 2024

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