Selections from Cheech Marin’s personal art collection return to Muzeo in Anaheim
LA TimesFor Muzeo, a publicly funded museum in downtown Anaheim, and for actor and art collector Cheech Marin, it’s a take two. “Papel Chicano Dos” represents the second time Cheech’s Chicano art collection — with a specific focus on works on paper — has been shown at Muzeo. For the veteran actor, whose initial claim to fame was the “Cheech & Chong” comedy routine and stoner movies with Tommy Chong, this Anaheim show will be the final touring stop before his art collection gets enshrined in the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry at the Riverside Art Museum. “I think it means a lot to this community,” said Mandy Rodriguez, Muzeo’s new exhibitions coordinator, who’s been at the nonprofit — which used to be known as the Anaheim Museum — for a year. “Papel Chicano Dos” also features six works by Nicondro, who is better known as “Gronk.” Once a member of the Chicano artists’ collective Asco, Gronk has always been an intriguing figure, participating in performance art and questioning gender constructions as well as creating murals, paintings and screen prints.
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