Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

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CLAREMONT.- The Claremont Museum of Art presents Vexing:
Female Voices from East LA Punk from May 18 to August 31,
2008. The burgeoning punk rock music scene of the late
1970s and early 1980s in East Los Angeles provided an
electrically charged, creative climate. This scene created
an atmosphere where performance mixed with poetry, and
visual culture was defined by an aesthetic and an attitude.
Artists and musicians interfaced and blurred the lines of
actions, documentation, photography, sound and style.
Taking its name from the all-ages music club The Vex, once
housed within East Los Angeles' Self Help Graphics and Art,
Vexing is an historical investigation of the women who were
at the forefront of this movement of experimentation in
music, art, culture and politics, while exploring their
lasting legacies and contemporary practices. This
documentary style exhibition will include photo, video and
audio archives of the era as well as studio work
encompassing painting, installation, writings and
performance.

In an artistic environment fueled by exchange and
experimentation, music played a pivotal role in defining
new images of self. This exhibition documents a vital
moment of artistic and musical interchange in Los Angeles,
with women staking out a position between and within punk
rock, East LA and the downtown art scene. Vexing not only
considers their significant contributions to the cultural
landscape of LA, but also examines the multiple scenes and
identities they negotiated. These women have also served as
a model for subsequent generations interested in
alternative social movements as a platform of expression,
as well as the post identity conceptual practices of today.

Participants include musicians Alice Bag, Teresa
Covarrubias, Angela Vogel, Monica Flores, musician and
artist Exene Cervenka, artists Diane Gamboa and Patssi
Valdez, photographers Dawn Wirth, Louis Jacinto, Linda
Posnick and Frank Gargani, recording label founder of
Fatima Records Yolanda Comparan Ferrer, printmakers Richard
Duardo, Jessee Vidaurre and John Miner, and filmmaker Jimmy
Mendiola. Representing a newer generation of artistic
producers influenced by these women are musician/artist
Lysa Flores, artists Shizu Saldamando and Sandra de la
Loza, photographer Chris TV, performance group Butchlalis
de Panochtitlan, and bands The Sirens and Go Betty Go.
Vexing also includes special concert footage and interviews
courtesy of Pete Galindo, Willie Herrón and Lysa Flores
from the forthcoming documentary on The Vex, and an excerpt
from the forthcoming documentary "Eastside Punks" by Jimmy
Alvarado, Pat Perez and Jake Smith.


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