Chicano artist gives performance and critique of contemporary art world at the Ulrich

Chicano artist gives performance and critique of contemporary art world at the Ulrich

Part lecture, part performance, artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña gave part of himself to a crowd at the Ulrich Museum of Art on April 9th.   Vivian Zavataro, the Executive and Creative Director of the Ulrich Museum of Art, began the night with an opening statement about Gómez-Peña “As a writer and performance artist, his work has been read tremendously, confronted, rewritten and restaged so-called ‘Western art’, exposing its colonial legacies and sys…