 |
|---|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|---|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Louis Jacinto
onodream@hotmail.com
www.louisjacinto.com
Louis Jacinto began photographing in 1973 and moved to Los Angeles to begin his third year of college in 1975, when he was 19 years old. Over the years, his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Advocate, Frontiers Magazine, Drop Dead Magazine and features in The Masque Book by Brendan Mullen. Louis is a member of the Los Angeles art collective LAART, and has exhibited extensively throughout Los Angeles.
“PUNKROCKLOSANGELES” is an exhibition of his Punk images depicting a time that greatly influenced him. In 1976 Punk Rock hit and like every other kid, Louis began to wear, listen to and speak the way everyone else did in order to be “in”. Punk Rock railed against anything that corporate America said in music, film, fashion, politics – everything! Nobody had to buy one more thing in order to feel complete; be “in”.”
Of course, over time Punk Rock itself became the “in” thing, but in that brief cultural flash, Louis found liberation from everything that he had followed previously, and liberation from everything that has come since. His book, PUNKROCKLOSANGELES, of which a few images are exhibited here, is a record of the bands that he followed and documented with his camera.
“While I saw a lot of other photographs highlighting the extremes of the scene, I was only interested in this new, fresh sound; this new self-made glamour. That’s what I saw when I looked through my lens. Looking at my 30 year old photographs now, I only see that beauty today. It was a wonderful time for me, my friends and for the bands. It was my last bash as a young American.”
Louis Jacinto continues as a political and social activist. He uses his camera to record his experiences participating in demonstrations and public gatherings.
Permanent Collections
The Claremont Museum of Art
Exhibitions
2010 Urban Sanctuary "Art Within Reach" (Group Show)
Gallery2010 drkrm. Gallery: Mick & Friends: Rock & Roll Photography (Group Show)
2010 Casa 0101 Gallery “A Prayer for Juarez” (Group Show)
2009 Vexing: “Female Voices of East L.A. Punk” Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico
2009 “Beyond Eden” Barnsdall Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 drkrm. Gallery “MONDO GRONK” - GRONKPATSSIPARTY
2009 City of Los Angeles Barnsdall Municipal Gallery “All City Art Open”
2009 Gallery Thirty One -Open Space- (Group Show)
2009 drkrm. Gallery “The Last Picture Show” (Group Show)
2009 I-5 Gallery (Group Show)
2009 drkrm. Gallery “PUNKROCK LOSANGELES”
2008 The Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2007 drkrm. Gallery “Destroy All Music:The Masque and Beyond”
2007 I-5 Gallery “Group Show”
2007 City of Los Angeles, Open Call, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Group)
1994 Tsunami Gallery (Group Show)
1993 LA ART- Installations One Gallery “Censored”
1993 LA ART Installations One Gallery “Photo-Graphy”
1992 LA ART Installations One Gallery “Urban Landscapes II”
1990 LA Art Installations One Gallery “Remembering John Lennon”
1989 LA Art Installations One Gallery “Urban Landscapes”
1989 City of Los Angeles -All City Art Open **** 1985 ONE Inc. (Group Show)
1982 Sunset Junction at The Sunset Juction Street Fair
1980 Beyond Baroque Gallery “Anti-World War III’
 |
 |
* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist