Description: This is a seldomly seen and significant RARE Vintage Chicano Modern Lithograph on Paper, by legendary Los Angeles Chicano artist and Muralist, Wayne Alaniz Healy (b. 1946.) This artwork depicts an abstracted pink pig in a corn field, sloppily eating a cob of yellow corn. It is surrounded by lush greenery and leaves from the farm crop, and stares coquettishly away from the viewer's gaze. This artwork is an Artist Proof, annotated: "M/S" in the lower left corner. Additionally, this piece is titled: "Cochinito en su Cielo" and signed and dated: "Healy 97" in the lower right corner. Approximately 26 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 19 7/8 x 26 inches. Very good condition for age, with some speckles of yellowing to the edges of the print, and mild scuffing and soiling to the vintage wood frame (please see photos.) Healy's original artworks are in the permanent collections of the USTA Libraries Art Collection, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the McNay Art Museum, the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, N.Y., and the U. C. Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections, among others. Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Wayne Alaniz HealyWayne Alaniz Healy (20/21st century) is active/lives in California. Wayne Healy is known for Chicano-themed multi media artwork, murals. "Wayne Alaniz Healy is a founding member of the East Los Streetscapers, one of the first groups of artists to begin the muralist movement in the 1970s. Healy was raised in East Los Angeles and continues to live and paint there. Besides murals, the artist and the Streetscapers have moved into multimedia work such as sculpture and tile-making. Healy and fellow founder of the group, Paul Botello, painted their first mural together - dinosaurs - in third-grade art class." "Wayne Healy grew up in East Los Angeles. He was educated as a engineer but in 1972 he met artists from the Mexicano Art Center and soon shifted careers and became one of the leading Chicano muralists. In 1975, he co-founded East Los Streetscapers with his childhood friend David Botello. Proud of his Chicano and Irish heritage, Wayne organized the first exhibit of Chicano artists which traveled from Cork to Waterford and ended in Dublin, Ireland in 1983. Since then he has also showcased Irish artists like Micheal Costello in Los Angeles." Wayne Healy (born 1946) grew up in East Los Angeles, where political events in the 1960s stimulated his commitment to execute socially and culturally relevant public art. In the third grade he collaborated on a dinosaur mural with David Botello. In 1975, the two ran into each other after many years, and Healy and Botello co-founded what became the mural team known as East Los Streetscapers.In 1992 Healy and artist Roberto Delgado were awarded a grant by the Joint Spanish/U.S. Committee for Educational and Cultural Cooperation to paint murals in Barcelona, Spain. They have created murals and public art works throughout the United States, Europe and Mexico with traveling exhibitions including "Le Demon des Anges", "2001: Hispanic Artists' Odyssey," and "Chicano Codices," Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California. Healy’s work was also featured in Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge - a traditional art exhibition presenting the works of a wide range of the country's Chicano and Chicana artists. Wayne Healy“El Cuentista”Monoprints, Paintings, SilkscreensAvenue 50 Studio is proud to presentEL CUENTISTAan exhibit featuring the work of celebrated Chicano artist Wayne Healy showcasing his work of monoprints, paintings and silkscreens (many which were created at Self-Help Graphics).Wayne Healy grew up in East Los Angeles. He was educated as a engineer but in 1972 he met artists from the Mechicano Art Center and soon shifted careers and became one of the leading Chicano muralists. In 1975, he co-founded East Los Streetscapers with his childhood friend David Botello. Each piece tells a story and Healy is a gifted storyteller.WAYNE ALANIZ HEALY – BiographyBorn in Santa Barbara, California, Wayne Alaniz Healy was raised in East Los Angeles. His entire K-12 education took place within a 10-block area. Moving away to college at California State Polytechnic College – Pomona (BS Aerospace Engineering, BS Mathematics 1968) and then to the University of Cincinnati (MS Mechanical Engineering 1973) gave Healy a wanderlust that persists to this day. The technical education resulted in a 23-year engineering career in aerospace. In 1991, Healy left aerospace to devote full time to art. Healy made it official by earning his MFA [Art 1999] from California State University Northridge.If one believes in the hereditary transmission of artistic ability, then it is easy to believe that Healy was born to be an artist. Grandfather Adolfo Alaniz, who painted a mural in 1920s’ Los Angeles, was a respected artist who taught his sons to paint. The sons became Healy’s uncles and passed the muse onto their eager nephew. Thus, long before art school, Healy already had a lifetime of art training.Wayne Healy began to sell his oil paintings soon after moving to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1968 and so started a professional art career that has spanned nearly 40 years. The mid-west period pieces were all commissions and had no gallery exhibitions. That all changed when Healy returned to East Los in 1972 and immediately dove into the ELA Mural Movement with Mechicano Art Center. The focus of the artist’s life was thus forged in public art.In 1975, WH was reunited with grade school friend and fellow artist David Botello to establish East Los Streetscapers (ELS), the most enduring public art team to come from East L A. After painting murals that celebrate the human spirit for more than two decades, ELS has grown into public art projects that are 3D and multimedia in nature. ELS now build public art from the ground up, as in two 1997 projects: El Pueblo San José de Guadalupe and the LAPD Memorial. The projects use sculpture in concrete and bronze plus architectural materials such as granite, concrete, steel and pavers. The multimedia design effort combines engineering and art, thus opening up a vast potential for new ideas. The challenge of integrating art and architecture motivates ELS in the 21st century.Although public art demands a lot of time, Wayne Healy continues to produce his own art work. Besides painting and drawing in the studio, Healy produces a variety of graphic works at East L A’s Self Help Graphics including serigraph, mono-silkscreen and etching. Healy’s imagery mostly depicts everyday scenes that are cultural and/or universal. His art is recognizable by vigorous draftsmanship, dramatically angled composition and strong colors. The work is in public and private collections on six continents.Healy began his international art odyssey by curating the first exhibit of Chicano art in Europe in 1983. The exhibit opened at the Triskel Art Centre in Cork, Ireland; birthplace of his great grandfather. Since then, he has traveled to Egypt, Pakistan, Japan, Spain, Qatar, England, Scotland, Chile, Peru and México to participate in exhibits and give workshops.The ELS studio has provided work experience and job training for young artists eager to carry on the tradition. Healy as educator has run workshops, given lectures and worked on projects with K-12 youth. Healy taught part time at Cal Poly-Pomona (Engineering Dept, 1975-77), CSUN (Art Dept, 1997-2001) and Otis College of Art & Design (Fine Arts, 2005).Opening Night Reception: Saturday, November 8, 2014 from 7-10 pmExhibit Run: November 8 through December 6, 2014 WAYNE ALANIZ HEALY – CALIFORNIA ARTIST(EAST LOS STREETSCAPERS)IN HIS OWN WORDS:I started painting murals in 1972 with a group from Mechicano Art Center. For the next two years I worked with a lot of different artists such as Rich Raya and Carlos Almaraz. Finally, I did my own in 1974, all by myself. It is called Ghosts of the Barrio. It shows some vatos hanging out on a front porch. It’s sort of a trompe-l’oeil because people say, “How did you paint that on the steps?” It’s not the steps, it’s a blank wall of a housing unit so it has a kind of trompe-l’oeil, 3-D effect. So its cholo like cats hanging out and on the side are ghost images of Mestizos, a Revolutionary, an indigena. So, its sort of, “Where do we go from here?”The first project I did with David Botello as East Los Streetscapers, and this was right after we had decided to do murals together, was a bank in Lincoln Heights. Daly Street and North Broadway. It is a major intersection and here is this great wall. The way we would approach a mural, and still do today, is to start out with a proposition of site specific. There are three different elements that up for “site specific.” One is architectural. Art wants to fit in the architecture, it doesn’t want to disappear in the architectural like wall paper and it doesn’t want to hand on the side of like a radio antenna. It wants to be integrated. Second, who is in that building and what are they doing? Is this a jail? A courtroom? A motel? That function and the people who use it is a major element. And finally, where is it? And what happened here in the past and what may happen in the future that is of historic consideration? After that we have the flow lines, and we start putting peopl ein there–our work is always populated with the human form. My own, personal work, differs from David’s or our joint work, in that I really lean heavily on draftsmanship. Ultimately, what kind of artist was healey? He was a draftsman. He was pencil and paper. The imagery that you will see in my work is pretty autobiographical and s I get older it becomes more so. Washing the car in the fron yard, or my grandmother watering the driveway, dirt driveway, in East LA. Or animals in the backyard, pgs, our neighbors had horses, steers and this is on Third and Mednick! Music, there was always music. My uncles were all musical. Birthdays, bautismos, funerals–stuff that anybody in any part of the planet can look at and say, “yeah, I can relate to that.” Wayne Alaniz Healey Painter/Sculptor/Muralist “I think of myself as a journalist,” says Wayne Alaniz Healy, a painter, sculptor, muralist and retired aerospace engineer who understands the passion and political power of art. Through his art he faithfully records daily life as well as the political upheavals of his long-time home in East LA. A career in the aerospace industry took him across the country before returning to California in the early 70s. Responding to the burgeoning and, at times, explosive Chicano quest for a political voice, Wayne became deeply involved in the East Los Angeles mural movement and co-founded East Los Streetscapers. Vibrant colors and intense, lively scenes emphasize his devotion to family and community. Healy designed the sculpture that aesthetically unites Olivas Adobe Historical Park and the Olivas Links Golf Course in Ventura, CA. This artist participated in PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California.Wayne Alaniz Healey’s in-depth oral history and documentation took place in 2006, co-sponsored by Betsy & Dick Chess and Sandra & Jordan Laby The FOTM Archive contains extensive information about this artist
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Artist: Wayne Healy
Signed By: Wayne Healy
Image Orientation: Portrait
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Period: Contemporary (1970 - 2020)
Title: "Cochinito en su Cielo"
Material: Paper
Region of Origin: California, USA
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Framing: Framed
Subject: Animal Head, Barns, Botanical, Famous Paintings/Painters, Farming, Figures, Flowers, Forest, Landscape, Pig, Plants, Silhouettes, States & Counties, Tree, Working Life, Corn
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1997
Item Height: 32 1/2 in
Style: Abstract, Americana, Chicano, Contemporary Art, Expressionism, Figurative Art, Mexican, Modernism, Muralism, Portraiture
Theme: Agriculture, Americana, Animals, Art, Cities & Towns, Community Life, Continents & Countries, Cultures & Ethnicities, Domestic & Family Life, Events & Festivals, Exhibitions, Nature, Portrait, Social History, Western, Working Life
Features: 1st Edition, Limited Edition, Numbered
Production Technique: Lithography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Handmade: Yes
Item Width: 26 1/2 in
Time Period Produced: 1990-1999
