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Gronk (born 1957 in East Los Angeles, California, USA) is the artistic name of Chicano painter, printmaker, and performance artist Glugio Nicondra. See also East Los Angeles (region East Los Angeles (often shortened to East L California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Chicano (feminine Chicana) is a politically-loaded word for a Mexican American (in the sense of native-born Americans of Mexican ancestry as opposed to Mexican This article is about Performance art For other uses see Performance (disambiguation According to Gronk, his widely-repeated birth year of 1954 is false and directly attributed to his long-time dealer, Daniel Saxon, who wanted his young artist to "be older" and "taken seriously. " The artist also states that "Gronk" is a name his Mother found in an article on a Brazilian tribe in National Geographic while resting shortly before his birth.

Gronk in the Spring of 2006
Gronk in the Spring of 2006

Gronk was a founding member of ASCO, a multi-media arts collective in the 1970s. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Influenced by European film, existentialism, and literature (i. e. , Camus, Beckett) Gronk and his early teenage cohorts made "movies without film", farcical "happenings" on the streets of their native East LA, with Patsi Valdez (magical realist painter of ominous domestic interiors) starring in female roles. Gronk is largely self-educated. Bored with High School and radicalized politically by the anti-Vietnam War and Chicano Walk-Out movements of Los Angeles schools, Gronk and friends barely attended their final years in school, and may not have graduated. He took some classes at Community College. Gronk reports that he was kicked out of famed East LA's Self Help Graphics "by that chain-smoking nun," Karen Boccalero, for not following instructions. He is best known for his murals, including those at Estrada Courts in East Los Angeles. Estrada Courts is a low-income housing project in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles, California, located at 3232 Estrada Street in the vicinity More recently his murals have been intentionally painted as temporary art works (i. e. , Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California) to be whitewashed later, Gronk has been involved with theater since his teenage ASCO days, through more elaborate stage design for organizations such as the Los Angeles Opera and Santa Fe Opera. The Los Angeles Opera is an Opera company in Los Angeles California, United States The Santa Fe Opera (SFO is an American Opera company located north of Santa Fe in the U His scenic work has also been featured onstage with Latino Theater Company and East West Players. The Latino Theater Company (LTC is a theatre producing organization based in Los Angeles California East West Players is an Asian American theatre organization in Los Angeles founded in 1965. He has collaborated with composer Joseph Julian Gonzalez on “Tormenta Cantada,” a visual/musical piece performed in 1995 with Kronos Quartet at University of California, Los Angeles. Kronos Quartet is a String quartet founded by Violinist David Harrington in 1973 In 2003, Gronk was in residency at University of New Mexico as part of the Cultural Practice/Virtual Styles project. He was also given a career retrospective at the same art institution where Asco famously left it's graffiti "tag" years early in protest against )the official Chicano art of "Los Four"---Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He also curated "Altares", a small exhibition at UCLA Hammer Museum. Gronk was in residency at University of New Mexico as part of the Cultural Practice/Virtual Styles project. Gronk's murals, paintings on canvas, and widely-collected screen prints, relate to the direct visual aesthetic contained in works by German Expressionist Max Beckman and the cartoon-like paintings of American Phillip Guston, along with vernacular arts of early civilizations (i. e. , Toltec figurines). His work is original and constantly evolving. Gronk is prolific, filling pages of sketchbooks daily, often while enjoying his favorite cup of coffee on the streets of Los Angeles. He mostly paints at night. Gronk joins many first-class artists collaborating with master printers at Tandem Press. His work is represented by Daniel Saxon of Saxon Gallery, West Hollywood, California. Gronk is accessible to students and others, often seen walking all over his home turf (he does not drive), Downtown Los Angeles. Comfortable with the moniker "Chicano artist", Gronk's intense devotion to craft and multi-disciplinary pursuits are informed by a wide knowledge from a myriad of global and historic sources.

Exhibitions

Gronk's work has been shown at:

Murals

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