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Patssi Valdez
Born in 1951 in East Los Angeles—where she grew up immersed in a Hispanic urban culture attuned to fashion, music, and films—Patssi Valdez began her artistic career while still in high school.
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With friends Gronk (Glugio Nicandro, b. 1954), Harry Gamboa Jr. (b. 1951), Willie Herrón (b. 1951), and other collaborators, she founded in 1974 the seminal experimental group Asco (Spanish for nausea).
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Through performance, photography, and conceptual art, Asco responded with an independent and rebellious attitude to the dearth and negativity of Latino representations in popular culture, as well as to their lack of identification, with Aztec imagery and Mexican nationalistic mural painting.
Exemplifying Asco's artistic stance is the series No Movies, still shots that portray Asco members posing in costume as they stage cinematic scenes. To support her artistic work, Valdez worked as a hairdresser at her mother's beauty salon before entering the Otis Parsons School of Art an