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Luis (Gonzalez) Guiterrez (Born in 1933, Pittsburgh, California) (also known as Louis Gutierrez) is a Mexican-American artist working in the United States today. Guitierrez has lived and worked in both the U.S. and Mexico throughout his career. Gutierrez two main mediums are painting and assemblages, which he has explored and created over a span of forty years. During the 1960's and 1970's, Gutierrez garnered national recognition through the inclusion of his work in two prominent national survey show. Gutierrez earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts at San JoseState University in 1957 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the Instituto Allende at San Miguelde Allende Mexico in 1958. He taught at San Jose City College from 1969 until his retirement in 1955.

Early Life

Luis was born at the pinnacle of the Depression. Son of Mexican parents Albino Gutierrez and mother Domitila Gutierrez. Albino Gutierrez worked as a barber and died when Luis was five, leaving behind Luis, and two children aged three and one in the vicinity of San Jose, California. Luis' mother, Domitila Gutierrez, kept the family going with what work she could muster, supplemented by welfare for assistance. After high school, Luis took interest in the junior college that opened its doors in the San Jose Area. Luis attended college and earned an Associate Art Credential. He began a lifelong love of learning and art practice which continues today.

Education

In 1954-1957 Gutierrez received his BFA at San Jose University in San Jose, California and his MFA at the Instituto Allende San Miguel de Allende in Mexico from 1957-1958.

Art

While Gutierrez embraces his cultural heritage, his work does not reflect Chicano theme. Instead his work is informed by three life forces "Passion, Evolution, Liberation." Building on international avant-garde styles, Gutierrez creates pieces that reflect the cultural sentimentalities of the time. In his PTSD series, Gutierrez painted portraits of veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a response to the war in Iraq. He works in a variety of Media media including drawing, painting, collage and assemblages. His energetic and intense assemblages incorporate objects from a lifetime of collecting reflecting his American life. {{cite web|last=togonon|first=Julina|title=luis gutierrez|accessdate=27 April 2011}}

Selected Solo & Two- Person Exhibitions

Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, California 2011

Axis Gallery, San Jose, California 2010

Triton Gallery, Santa Clara, California, 2007

Tercera Museum, Los Gatos, California 2000

Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California 1994

Mexican Art Museum San Francisco, California 1979

Chico State University Art Gallery, California 1974

Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California 1973

de Young Memorial Museum San Francisco, California 1971

Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, California 1971

Pavilion Gallery, Los Gatos, California 1970

San Jose City College, San Jose, California 1969

Dominican College, San Raphael, California 1967

Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, California 1967

Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco, California 1966,1967

San Francisco Art Center, California 1962,1964

San Jose State College, San Jose, California 1961

St. Mary's College, Moraga, California 1960

Lucian Labaudt Gallery, San francisco, California 1959

Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 1958

Selected Group Exhibitions

Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California 2002

San Jose City College Art Faculty Exhibition, 1983

Six Bay Are Chicano Artists, U.C. Santa Cruz, California 1976

Touring Show-17 Artists: Hispano Mexicano-American Chicano,

The Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell Chicago, IL. 1976

White Memorial Museum, San Antoni, Texas 1976

De Cordova Museum, Lincoln , MA 1976

Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL 1976

The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA 1976

Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho 1976

Three Chicano Artists Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California 1973

Chicano Group Exhibition, Oakland Museum Chicano Group Exhibition, Mills College 1972

San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA), San Francisco, California 1970

SF Museum Rental Gallery 1967,1968

Small Painting Show, Purdue University, Indiana 1965, 1966

12th Contemporary American Painting & Sculpture, University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois 1965

Second Biannial Drawing USA, Minnesota 1964

Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 1963

Phalen Awards Exhibition, San Francisco, California, 1963

Bay Area Art Exhibition, San Francisco, California 1963

California Richmond Center, Richmond, California 1963

Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California, 1960,1961

San Francisco Art Festival, California 1960-1967

Walnut Creek Art Festival, California 1958-1966

California State Fair, Sacramento, California 1960-1966

San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA) 1960-1964

Awards

Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York 1966

Walnut Creek Civic Art Annual, Purchase Award 1963

Ford Foundation Purchase Award 1963

James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco, California 1962

San Francisco Art Festival Purchase Award 1962

Selected Bibliography

Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1965, Exhibition catalog, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum Champaign, Illinois.

Quirarte, Jacinto, PhD. The Humble Way: The Art of Mexican-America, Humble Oil Company 1970, Vol.IX No.2. The University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.

Quirarte, Jacinto, PhD. Mexican American Artists, 1973. The University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.

"Gutierrez at de Young", Alfred Frankenstein, San Chronicle 1971

References

{{cite news|last=Frankenstein|first=Alfred|title=Art Critic|accessdate=October/November 1971|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle}}
{{cite web|last=togonon|first=Julina|title=Togonon Gallery|accessdate=27 April 2011}}
{{cite journal|last=Quirarte|first=Jacinto|title=The Art of Mexican- America, Humble Oil Company|journal=Exhibition Catalog, The University of Texas Press|year=1973|volume=IX|series=No.2}}

External links

[http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/]

[http://www.togonongallery.com/]