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Jake Prendez
“Dreamers” | Oil on Canvas | 36″ X 24″
I am so excited to unveil my newest painting.
Dreamers is the second in my series Norman Rockwell in Post-Racial America.
I decided to reinterpret the painting entitled Breaking Home Ties (below).
Instead of the rural farmworker with his son going off to college I used a jornalero father seeing his son off to college.
In the Corn vs Flour World Series, we’re down with Los Doyers! (toon)
[You can buy a shirt or print featuring this brand-new character from Jake’s modern Mexican codex at the chingon Jake Prendez website.]
It’s a classic of Mexican art — La Selfie (toon)
La Selfie is one of the newest additions to my contemporary codices series. The series asks: “If we were still creating codices like our ancestors what would they look like? What would our community look like?”
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April showers bring May flowers — and ‘El Paletero’ (toon)
El Paletero is the newest edition to my contemporary codices series. The series asks if we were still creating codices like our ancestors what would they look like? What would our community look like?
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The struggle is real: Churro know my life! (toon)
My militant Pocho Ocho New Year’s resolutions
8. Remove Christmas lights from my Occupy L.A. tent a little earlier this year
7. Scare white folks with the 2012 Doomsday predictions
6. Get Cheech to collect one of my Chicano paintings
5. Train my revolutionary pets Karl Barx and Chairman Meow to attack all Republicanos in mi barrio