Created 1994 Acquired 19946

the artist trying to wipe on color

Donated to Laguna Art Museum in 1999 as one of 109 works
Exhibited Laguna Art Museum 1998-9 "Life Lessons: How Art Can Change Your Life"

This is pure irony. Carrasco as a blond, green-eyed, Latina woman artist is an outsider to expectation on many fronts. She has to put on dark-skinned makeup ("brown-face") to resemble in stereotype who she already is in her marrow.

"Exh:Laguna Art Museum, 1998-9, 'Life Lessons; ...'"

Barbara Carrasco