Judithe Hernández - Born in Los Angeles, California, she was part of the vanguard of artists who helped launch the Chicano Art and Los Angeles Mural Movements of the 1960's-70's, and is regarded as one of the important visual artists of the period. She was the only female member of the seminal and influential East Los Angeles artist collective Los Four. She has exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and Mexico, including the ground-breaking first exhibition of contemporary Chicano Art in Europe: "Le Dmon des Anges".

"Like so many Latino artists, I have drawn from the wealth of my cultural inheritance to describe visually who we are, what we value, how we define beauty, and to assert the belief that the artist as citizen has the responsibility to give a voice to the issues affecting the disenfranchised of our society. The power that art possesses is something that I became acquainted with in the 1970's when I painted murals in the streets of L.A.. Those of us who were part of a social-political movement in which art became an instrument used to educate___and on occasion to incite___experienced the power of art first-hand." … Read More