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RSI - Surrealist West Side Chicago Landscape Painting with Factory and Figure

2010

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This large scale painting depicts the trials and tribulations of Chicago's Hispanic community the artist has been connected to his entire life. The social realist/surrealist landscape depicts a Chicago factory at Canal and Cermak on Chicago's West side where many Hispanics worked, indluding the artist's mother. When more technological advances reached the factory floor, workers were required to increase their productivity resulting in many injuries and RSI - Repetitive Strain Injuries. This piece is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options. Marcos Raya RSI oil on canvas 50.50h x 39w in 128.27h x 99.06w cm MSR052 Marcos Raya brings together old and new works in a variety of media that mostly explores the sociological impact of technological change. His paintings, collages and installations present an idiosyncratic hybrid of Mexican folklore, American pop-culture. His work has more affinities with Dada and Surrealism, infused with elements of Chicago-Style Pop-Expressionism and Machismo. Through an extension of his own personal space, his frontier is filled with assemblage that takes life from the residue of crisis. His installations operate as both a self-portrait and collective history. In the context of a merging reality of medical and psychological proportions. His active space is an esthetic of abundance and display that presents traces of the ongoing struggles with urban displacement. Raya’s edge is both intimate in a domestic construction and sinister in a spectacle of public dimension. Marcos Raya's work can be found in collections all over the world. He is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, The National Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • Attributed to:
    Marcos Raya (1948, Mexican)
  • Creation Year:
    2010
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 50.5 in (128.27 cm)Width: 39 in (99.06 cm)
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    Framing Options Available
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  • Gallery Location:
    Chicago, IL
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: MSR0521stDibs: LU55439754052
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