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NEW UNIMPROVED WASH N' WAR, Placa's Balmy Street Mural Environment, 1984, San Francisco, CA.

Click here to link to the New Unimproved Wash N' War image gallery

Collaborated with La Cinca Artists in response to San Francisco Artists' Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America; co-created a multi-media clothesline installation to (a) act as a visual inducement to the violation and vulnerability in Central America, and (b) reflect the imagery and significance of details in the daily lives of others, washing out bloodstained clothes, despite it all.
Additional Exhibitions:
Vida Gallery, SF, CA., "Celebrando Nuestras Hermanas, " 1985, juried installation.
Casa Gallery, SF, CA., "Placa, " 1984 installation and image/text documentation
Articles:
People's World, Berkeley, CA., "New Murals Bloom in Balmy Alley" 9/8/84
El Tecolote, SF, CA., "Murals Portray U.S. Intervention in Central America" July 1984
North Mission News, SF, CA., "New Murals" 4/85
Daily Californian, Berkeley, CA., "Mission District Artist Mix Politics with Optimism" 9/84
El Dia, Mexico City,"Denuncian en murales la intervencion de Estados Unidos en America Centrale" 8/24/84
Bernal Journal, SF, CA., "Balmy Alley Murals" 9/84
San Francisco Examiner, SF, CA., "Art that is Right Up Your Alley" 6/16/85
Bay Guardian, SF, CA., "Best Mural Showcase" 7/24/85
Videos:
"Balmy Alley", Celeste Genwich, local channel 6, 10/84
"Partners in Crime", Barcar Productions, national channel, 11/84
"Fortune Dane", Barcar Productions, national channel, 11/84
"Santana Says It Again", Bill Graham Presents, National MTV, 2/85
"T.G.I.4.", Margarita Landazery & Stephanie Neonau, local channel 4, 9/18/85
"Balmy Alley", Vicente Franco, local channel 14, 9/84 & 8/85
"Placa Presents Balmy Alley", KO, 85
Film:
"From a Woman in El Salvador Speaks", A.M.E.S., Sara Halprin, 1/85
News Clip:
"Murals," CBS Terry Scott, Carmel, CA., 1/85
Calendar:
Street Murals USA - 1986, Off the Wall Calendar Co., Jamaica Plains, MA.
New Unimproved Wash N' War : month of Sept.
International Invitation:
Ministry of Culture, Managua, Nicaragua, a project to create an environment as a cross-cultural exchange
based on the Balmy Alley Project