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Bajitas y Suavecitas

January 21 – March 13, 2025

Reception: January 30, 2025 from 5:00-7:30pm

Bajitas y Suavecitas is a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating women makers and leaders in lowrider culture. The exhibition highlights the complicated gender politics that structure and reflect the lives of women lowriders today through the work of contemporary artists and designers, which includes painting, photography, mixed media, and fashion. The exhibition artists’ works center the bodies of Chicanas/Latinas within lowrider culture and celebrate women-created spaces within lowrider communities which are anchored in self-love, empowerment, and unity.

Curated by Dr. Denise M. Sandoval, CSUN Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

Exhibition artists: Madeline Alvizo Ramirez, Gabriela Campos, Jessica Estrada Silva, Ashley Garcia, Elizabeth Loya, Veronica de Jesus, Amanda Lopez, Valentina Mauro, Stefanie L. Murga, Onni, Cecelia Perez, Irene Shiori, Vanessa Torrez, Jacqueline Valenzuela, Valerie Vargas, and El Pachuco Zoot Suit Shop.

The exhibition is funded in part by the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication; Diversity & Equity Innovation Grant Program; Instructionally Related Activities Committee; and Arts Council for CSUN.

Exhibition Press Release

Image (top): Exhibition title by artist Irene Shiori. Courtesy of the artist.

Image (bottom) : Amanda Lopez, Homegirls, 2008. Photographic archival pigment print, 26.5 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

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