Borderlands Critical Subjectivity in Recent Chicana Art

Abstract

Graphic expressions of gender politics can be found in the most recent efforts of Chicana artist groups such as L.A. Coyotas, Mujeres de Maíz, and Las Comadres Artistas. While many of these artists' prints and posters illustrate shared experiences of racial and gendered oppression, their mutual emphasis on women's bodies—veiled, masked, shrouded, or denuded—makes this body of work distinctive. The works' focus on the surface of bodies is meant to particularize the effects of hegemonic powers as they literally wear their difference on their persons. The artists' work represents the forging of an activist consciousness rooted in the lived cultural experiences of marginalized people. As border region artists, they work to re-member their bodies and to depict assertive active subjects reclaiming personal and public terrains.

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