Aryana Noroozi
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum celebrated its two year anniversary on June 22 Since opening, the museum has welcomed nearly 100,000 visitors and over 10,000 students from school tours and art classes.
The museum is the result of a public-private partnership between Riverside Art Museum, the City of Riverside and comedian Cheech Marin, one of the world’s leading collectors of Chicano art. The anniversary served as a celebration of featured art in the museum as well as the opening of the Shifting Perspectives: Cheech Collects and Hogar Dulce Hogar exhibitions. Over the past year and a half, artists and collectors have donated 80 works by almost 35 artists to The Cheech Center Collection.
Shifting Perspectives, the latest Cheech Collects edition, explores different mediums including photography and sculpture, paintings, prints, drawings and mixed media works. The exhibit highlights the significance of a home where Chicana/o/x cultural production and thought are centered, and poses the question of what prospects line the horizon when this perspective continues to be uplifted. The exhibition contains pieces from Cheech Marin’s personal collection as well as donations from other collectors.
Hogar Dulce Hogar explores the complex relationship between home, immigration, and the human experience through the lens of 19 different Inland Empire based artists using various mediums. Their work challenges the idea of home not being a fixed place, but rather a place carried through the experience of the heart and mind. The artists hope their work will prompt viewers to reflect on their own memories of home as well as empathize with others.
Shifting Perspectives: Cheech Collects will be on view from June 1, 2024 through April 27, 2025 and Hogar Dulce Hogar will be on view from June 22, 2024 through September 22, 2024.