Hilbert Museum: Emigdio Vasquez: Works from the Fred Ortiz Collection

The reinvented Hilbert Museum of California Art features a striking, two-building ensemble offering 26 galleries for rotating displays of the more than 5,000 oils, watercolors and drawings depicting everyday California life in the growing Hilbert Collection. It will also include a café, a community room for lectures, classes and events, a research library, and an outdoor courtyard with native gardens that create a new front door to the museum.

On exhibit in our South Wing Galleries – Emigdio Vasquez: Works from the Fred Ortiz Collection – Curated by Fred Ortiz.  Emigdio Vasquez (1939-2014), the acclaimed Chicano artist, muralist and teacher who started his career capturing scenes of everyday life in Orange’s historic Cypress Street Barrio District, is saluted with this selection of his social-realist paintings, curated by his longtime friend and local resident Fred Ortiz.