Ruben Ochoa
VOTE Benefit Editions
Coinciding with Dia De La Raza and Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and in anticipation of the upcoming presidential election, we are pleased to announce two new publications by Los Angeles based artist Ruben Ochoa. The editions are in three languages, English, Spanish and Mandarin - reflecting the cultural heritages of Ochoa’s family - and subvert the imagery of an old ‘Open/Closed’ sign he admired and appreciated from his mother’s Mexican food restaurant, to create a new universal call to action: the dual language ‘VOTE' sign. Following Sister Corita Kent and Self Help Graphic’s history of community advocacy, Ochoa conceived of these silkscreens as a social initiative aimed at getting out the vote. In that interest, 60% of proceeds from every print sold is being donated by Aliso Editions and Ruben Ochoa to three organizations seeking to foster and protect our participatory democracy: Artists 4 Democracy, Crenshaw Dairy Mart, and Dignity & Power Now.
About the Artist
For the past three decades Ruben Ochoa has been addressing and exposing the ideological and broader sociopolitical relationships that facilitate the way in which the spaces we inhabit and move through are assembled. His work has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. Ochoa is a recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2019 GSA Art in Architecture Public Commission at the US/Mexican Border, San Ysidro, California.
Ochoa is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles.
About the Organizations
Artists 4 Democracy was founded to help promote democratic and civic engagement by mobilizing artists to involve themselves in political action. Through voter registration drives, fund raisers and events they seek to promote voter access to all people.
Crenshaw Dairy Mart is a former dairy mart and home to an artist collective and art gallery dedicated to shifting the trauma-induced conditions of poverty and economic injustice, bridging cultural work and advocacy, and investigating ancestries through the lens of Inglewood and its community.
Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization founded in 2012 that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. Their mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist movement rooted in community power towards the goal of achieving transformative justice and healing justice for all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.