Armando Rascon: Naco Nocturne at de Young Museum in SF

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I came across an art exhibit announcement from a Calexico expat living in San Francisco. The exhibit named Naco Nocturne will be on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through November 5, 2006.

Apparently, Armando Rascon is the guy behind the Binational Mural Project which stretches two miles on the US-Mexico border fence here in Calexico. I always wondered what was up with that.

Here's an excerpt from the art exhibit announcement:

Armando Rascón lives and works in San Francisco. He was born in 1956 in Calexico, California, near the Mexican border. As a youth, he participated actively in the 1960s Chicano civil rights movement, including distributing literature for the United Farm Workers Union. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Rascón settled in San Francisco and in 1988, founded the Terrain Gallery, an alternative space providing exhibition opportunities to artists who addressed issues specific to Northern California.

Rascón works in a variety of media, favoring photography, film, video, performance, and installation art. He is an interventionist who likes to work in public spaces. His most famous project is Border Metamorphosis: The Binational Mural Project, which is a two-mile mural painted from 1998 to 2001 directly on the US/Mexico border fence dividing Calexico, California and Mexicali, Mexico.

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