ASU Art Museum exhibit features Chicana artist Carmen Lomas Garza

Stories of South Texas and Mexican-American life is the focal point of a new exhibition opening in May at the Arizona State University Art Museum.

The exhibition titled "Carmen Lomas Garza: Picturing the Familiar” presents the lived experiences of that artist who was influenced by the Chicano movement and moments from her everyday life.

"We don't often see kind of intimate moments of bedroom scenes where girls are getting ready to go out dancing, right?" Alana Hernandez said

Hernandez is the senior curator at the ASU Art Museum. She calls Lomas Garza an “elder Chicana artist.”

“She is 76 years young and really started her career and what's so important about the artist is that not only is she a visual artist working in print and painting, children's books, but she's also an author," she said.

In an email to KJZZ, Lomas Garza said her work captures “memory and feeling” and incorporates what she calls, “elements of imagination.”

“And what's so radical about Carmen's pictures is that she shows the intimate moments are familial scenes, scenes of the home, scenes of being outside, scenes of celebrations in a really radically joyous way," Hernandez said.