GRONKChicano painter, printmaker, and performance artist GRONK contributes the cover art for What Books Press. Known for his murals, Gronk also has created stage designs for the Santa Fe Opera, the LA Opera, Latino Theater Company, and the East West Players. He’s also collaborated on performances by the Kronos Quartet. He has exhibited at or curated work for many institutions, including the UCLA Hammer Museum, the UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, the San Francisco Mexican Museum, and the San Jose Museum of Art. He was given a career retrospective at the University of New Mexico, where he was in residence. He is a founding member of ASCO, a multimedia arts collective of the 1970s. Born in East Los Angeles, he now makes his home in downtown LA.
Gronk links:
2011 Asco show at LACMA |
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Cover art and logo by GRONK
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