NO LIE: 'HOMEBOY FAUXISM' RECEPTION DATES SET

Bunko to slip past the California/Nevada border.

Some of you know of my solo exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum (RAM) in February. The artist reception and gallery talk date is now set. It will be on Sunday, February 10, 2019, from 4 p.m.–7 p.m. I will share table time with Michael Alvarez [Mama's Boys (and Other Stories)] and artists from the group show Beast. I am looking forward to the chat-up on all the exhibitions. From the RAM website: 
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There are two “exhibits” within Homeboy Fauxism. The premise for the first exhibition, Bunko: The Lost Archives, is about how an arts writer found a trove of never-before-seen works by the imaginary “Bunko.” The arts writer then placed them on exhibition to introduce a Chicano political artist from the early ‘80s whose work matches the aesthetic now known as contemporary street art.

The second exhibition, Fauxism, is based on fictitious artists responding to “Bunko” with new works in design, sculpture, installation, and film.

​If you are coming in from Las Vegas, I can easily recommend you use a trip into Riverside to not just see works at the Riverside Art Museum, but also take part of the day to check out UCR ARTS, just a few blocks away. It houses the California Museum of Photography, the Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Art Gallery and the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts

California Museum of Photography

The Riverside Art Museum has been the lead guardian in the development of The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture, and Industry, and has brought in artists to introduce new museum initiatives. 

In between the Riverside Art Museum and UCR ARTS is the The Mission Inn, a great place to visit...or even stay.  Anyone coming from Los Angeles can plan a day trip via Metrolink. There are runs between Union Station and the  Riverside stop,  which is an easy enough walk to the Riverside Art Museum. Call it the Bunko Express.

​Ed Fuentes: Homeboy Fauxism
Exhibition: February 2 – March 31, 2019
Artist Reception and Gallery Talk:
​Sunday, February 10, 2019, 4 p.m.