WILLIAM CAMARGO: Origins & Displacements, Vols. 1 & 2

WILLIAM CAMARGO: Origins & Displacements, Vols. 1 & 2
October 3 – December 31, 2020

The Begovich Gallery and CSUF campus is closed to the public and is following COVID University, state, and city health and safety protocols. The exhibition will be hosted off-site

Locations: The exhibitions are on view through the storefront windows at Grand Central Art Center (GCAC) & MUZEO Museum & Cultural Center

Origins and Displacements, Vols. 1 & 2 is an on-going body of work examining Orange County’s history through contemporary photographs, videos, and performance produced by artist William Camargo. This two-part exhibition features Camargo’s artistic investigation that challenges the social depiction and erasure of Chicanx/Latinx people in historical documents, photographs, and news archives while recounting issues related to gentrification, systematic racism, and police brutality.

Essay accompanying the exhibition written by Joseph Daniel Valencia, Independent Curator, Exhibitions and Programs Manager, Vincent Price Museum (VPAM).

William Camargo: Origins & Displacements, Vols. 1 & 2  is organized by CSUF Begovich Gallery and it is presented in partnership with CSUF Grand Central Art Center and MUZEO Museum & Cultural Center. Support for the exhibition and its programming is made possible through the Art Alliance, Associated Students, Inc. Instructional Related Activities, the College of the Arts, and Department of Visual Arts.

(Image) William Camargo, “We Gunna Have To Move Out Soon Fam,” 2020. Digital inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist