Reverse Image: Prints by Enrique Chagoya and Murry DePillars

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Murry DePillars was a Chicago artist prominent in the city’s Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the artist organization AfriCobra. Enrique Chagoya is a California-based artist raised in Mexico City who addresses in both artwork and activism the cultural and political clash between the U.S. and Latin America and U.S. foreign policy.

Though to different ends, both artists engage symbols from pop culture and advertisements, reversing, subverting, and ultimately transforming this imagery to address social and political issues.  Cait DiMartino, Block Museum Art History Fellow 2019-2020 and co-curator of the current exhibition For One and All: Prints from The Block Collection, will showcase two works by the artists from The Block collection, Untitled (Aunt Jemima Pancake and Waffle Mix) (c.1969)  and utopiancannibal.org (2000). By comparing these works, we may explore how these artists each use the medium of printmaking in a unique manner as a mechanism for social and political discourse.

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