By Press Release – InlandEmpire.us – Image Not Credited.
The Riverside Art Museum (RAM) presents Armando Lerma’s Lost in the Andes, running October 3, 2019–January 5, 2020, sponsored by the City of Riverside, The James Irvine Foundation, and California Alliance for Renewable Energy Solutions. Beginning with scavenged, discarded signs, their familiar corporate logos long faded, Lerma creates art that reflects his Mexican-American heritage and borderland upbringing with an aesthetic that is inherently Californian. Found objects and pop culture imagery are tightly woven together, infusing disparate mythologies and a multitude of cultural references into his artistic practice. This expression of Chicano art that is resourceful and adaptable is described as rasquache.
