On Sunday, June 24, the Crocker Art Museum will bring to Sacramento an expansive exhibition of works by Eduardo Carrillo, a painter, teacher, and social activist known for advancing recognition of Chicano art and culture in California. His large-scale oil paintings have been described as mystical, surreal, and visionary, while his intimate watercolors reflect the artists daily life in self-portraits, still lifes, and images of people and places he held dear. Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo (Testamento del espíritu: Pinturas de Eduardo Carrillo) reflects on the artists relationship to his native California as well as to his Mexican heritage, his early religious upbringing, and the European tradition of art. This bilingual exhibition features more than 60 paintings and watercolors spanning nearly four decades of the artists production, from the
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