Carmen Lomas Garza Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Carmen Lomas Garza (born 1948) is a Mexican American artist.Lomas Garza was born in 1948 in Kingsville, Texas. The initial roots of her artwork lay in her family, to whom she is close, and in the Chicano Movement. Lomas Garza's parents had been involved in political organizing through the American GI Forum, and Lomas Garza followed in their footsteps by organizing Chicanos on her college campus. Lomas Garza later wrote that the Chicano Movement nourished her goal of being an artist and gave her back her voice. She says that her artistic creations helped her "heal the wounds inflicted by discrimination and racism." "I felt like I had to start with my earliest recollections of my life and validate each event or incident by depicting it in a visual format."Lomas Garza currently lives in San Francisco, Ca.Carmen Lomas Garza: A Retrospective was the Lomas Garza's first retrospective and featured work from the mid-1970s to the present. It was organized by the San Jose Museum of Art, where it was on view from January to April 2001; it later traveled to the San Antonio Museum of Art, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, National Hispanic Cultural Center, and the Polk Museum of Art.
