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Upcoming Events:
Rasquachismo
Fullerton College Art Gallery
October 31st-December 4th

Fullerton College is proud to present Rasquachismo, a multi-media exhibition
exploring the transmutative and defiant power of the lowrider. From painting,
sculpture, photography, and installation, the show seeks to celebrate the
lowrider’s demand for attention, reclamation of space and time, and resistance
to social norms and oppressive influences. Adapted from Rasquachismo, curated by
Laura Black, the exhibition celebrates how lowriding has developed past the
beauty of the car itself, to a deeper representation of the Chicanx community. 



Lowriding lives in the essence of resistance and cultivates the power of the
streets. It serves as a performance: the artist who creates and modifies the
car, the riding as the performance, and the community as its spectator. Is a
lowrider an object of decolonization simply in its existence and action? The car
serves a clear purpose: to protest, resist, be seen, and to do it in style. In
its essence, the lowrider is a manifestation of what brown and black communities
have done for centuries in this country: taken an object, appropriated it with
new meaning and purpose, and used it as an act of representation, pride, and
spiritual transformation.

 

Rasquachismo seeks to explore the themes of space and time, disruption,
spirituality, identity, and adornment through contemporary art. Similarly to the
conduit quality of the low rider, the exhibition highlights the spiritual nature
of community and lineage, and how representation of culture serves as its own
form of power. The literal translation of Rasquache means “leftover”, but the
true meaning of the word lives in its ability to transcend something found and
make it more powerful than before.






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