About the print

The print is based on a drawing that the artist did for a flier to promote an '80s night at "Chico's", a queer nightclub in Montebello. This edition was produced in collaboration with Grow Your Own Media (GYOM).

About the Artist

Shizu Saldamando is a Los Angeles-based mixed-media artist originally from San Francisco’s Mission district. Primarily concerned with portraiture and drawing, she experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials from wood panels to bed sheets. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting, and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth, and functions as a celebration and homage to peers and loved ones. Her mother’s family is Japanese American, by way of Boyle Heights/Sawtelle areas of L.A., and survivors of the Japanese American Internment camps. Her father is Chicano from Nogales, AZ. She received her B.A. from the UCLA School of Art and her M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.