Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to present Carlos Almaraz – Los Angeles, the gallery’s first exhibition of work by the artist. A pioneer of the Chicano art movement, Almaraz (b. Mexico City, 1941–d. Los Angeles, 1989) was among the earliest artists who lent his support to causes such as César Chávez’s United Farm Workers, creating social realist works that pushed forward the politics of the Chicano Civil Rights movement, often called El Movimiento. Almaraz created a body of work representative of the rich multiculturalism he experienced as an artist and Mexican American growing up in East LA. Alongside fellow artists Roberto “Beto” de la Rocha, Gilbert “Magu” Luján and Frank Romero—Almaraz co-founded the East Los Angeles-based artist collective Los Four in 1973, working together to create a bi-lingual and bi-cultural form of art making. Presented for the first time in 1973 at the gallery of UC Irvine, Los Four: Almaraz / de la Rocha / Lujan / Romero received substantial attention, and led to its restaging the following year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the first time Chicano artists would receive such institutional recognition.