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Noriega, who is the Director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, highlighted Ortiz as an often under-appreciated influence on modern art...
...Ortiz is an artist who is missing from art history, and is ... considered to be foundational for post-1968 avant-garde art in the United States,” Noriega said...
...added that Ortiz’s exclusion from major historical accounts underscores the gap in representation of artists of color in American art historiography...
...creator of El Museo del Barrio in New York City—the first Latino art museum in the United States—Ortiz is known for his involvement in the destructionist movement, which attempted to address what it saw as the social detachment of the post-War avant-garde...
...Noriega] is a perfect example of how this particular field has grown in importance due to the efforts of a particular individual,” said Associate Harvard Art Museum Curator Mary S. Enriquez...