, Frank Romero and Carlos Almaraz, and quickly assembled a critical mass of the then-overlooked field. Though the genre is defined as works made by US-based artists of Mexican heritage, typically with a political bent, Marin says he includes other Latinos “when they cross into Chicano territory.”
The thread for him is that each piece offers what he calls “news from the front,” be it a view of the artist’s neighborhood or a take on the day’s social-justice issues. The collection gained fame when he launched it on an extended tour in 2001, eventually persuading over 50 museums to exhibit it. He had to overcome their natural hesitation to show a private collection, but as he tellsMaría Esther Fernández, the Cheech’s artistic director, describes Marin’s determination to spread the word as a “mission.” “Chicano art is one of the most important art movements,” she says. “He breathes that; he lives that.
s offer to devote an entire new branch to Marin’s cache arrived at just the right time. “I had come to the point where I started to say, ‘What am I going to do with this collection?’ ” he recalls. “There’s no more room under the bed, and the garage is full. Then this thing dropped out of the sky.”Courtesy of the Riverside Art Musuemsquare feet, Marin says the area’s demographics were a big sell: Both the city and the surrounding Inland Empire region are majority Latino.
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