This exhibit is a visual tale of creative, brilliant Chicano/a/x artistic resistance. Jaime Gutierrez only collects Chicana/o/x Art. He does not see his collection as an act of exclusion, but rather an act of inclusion of the marginalized / colonized pan-nativist indigenous people we rebelliously call Chicanx/a/o.

Chicana/o/x art was born from a cultural and political renaissance in the garages, bedrooms, classrooms, and parks; from the hands of our present-day artists. Although our people are relegated to beasts of burden, this notion that we are intellectually inferior flies in the face of the ingenuity of our ancestors who built profound civilizations. Colonial False Nativism has been the bane of our existence since 1848. The Global Eurocentric Caste System has prevented all of humanity from a beautiful soaring flight. Chicano/a/x Art breaks the chains of mediocrity by daring to do as we please on canvas. Chicano/a/x’s sit in the middle of a cultural Venn Diagram between the U.S. and Mexico.