Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art

Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art is a comprehensive monograph on the artist's work, exploring community, queerness, and Chicano identity. It features essays by C. Ondine Chavoya, David Evans Frantz, Raquel Gutiérrez, and Mari Rodriguez Binnie, as well as biographical entries on additional artists.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2025
Publisher: Inventory Press LLC

Teddy Sandoval's first monograph, Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, explores the work of the innovative yet underappreciated Los Angeles-based artist Teddy Sandoval (1949-1995). A prominent figure in Los Angeles' queer and Chicanx artistic circles, Sandoval was an active participant in international avant-garde movements. For 25 years, he produced subversive and playful artworks in a range of mediums, including ceramics, mail art, painting, printmaking, performance, photography, window displays, and xerography, that explored the codes of gender and sexuality, particularly transforming conceptions of masculinity. This expansive publication surveys Sandoval's work alongside other queer, Latinx, and Latin American artists whose practices profoundly resonate. The expansive catalog features essays by C. Ondine Chavoya, David Evans Frantz, Raquel Gutiérrez, and Mari Rodriguez Binnie, as well as biographical entries on additional artists featured in the exhibition, among them, Félix Ángel, Myrna Báez, Álvaro Barrios, Ester Hernández, Hudinilson Jr., Antonio Lopez, María Martínez-Cañas, Marisol, and Joey Terrill. This book was published in conjunction with the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Williams College Museum of Art, and Independent Curators International.

Dimension: 279 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781941753590