· FORWARD System of Independent Culture - Paulo Luca von Vacano,
Publisher
· INTRODUCTION One More Push - Dave Tourjé, Founder, California
Locos
· LOCOS BIOS California Locos Vs. Art History - Shana Nys
Dambrot
· DECADES OF LOCO, 60s - 00s
· ESSAY Riding the Wave of Rebellion – California Locos and the
“Birth of Now”- Michelle Deziel-Hernandez
· CHOUINARD FOUNDATION, 1999
· L.A. ABORIGINAL, 2011
· LOS SAVAGES, 2011
· ART SHOWS, 2014 – 2021
· COLLISION OF VISIONS
· LOCOS SIDEBARS
· LOCOS FILM
· PHOTO CREDITS
Dave Tourjé was born and raised in the culturally eclectic Northeast L.A. of the 1970s and his upbringing amongst the skaters, gangs, and the area’s tribal friction play heavily in his work. Also a musician, Tourjé was a member of the influential L.A. band the Dissidents, playing shows with Camper Van Beethoven, Saccharine Trust, The Minutemen to name a few. Tourjé’s artwork oscillates between high and low, punk and institutional hegemony and was the subject of a one-man exhibition covering 15 years of paintings on acrylic glass at the Riverside Art Museum in 2002. It has been featured at the Oceanside Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, and Laguna Art Museum. In 1998, Tourjé helped to form the Chouinard Foundation after purchasing the home of Nelbert Chouinard, in order to help restore the lost history of one of the great art schools in the world.
"Not unlike a gritty rock 'n' roll band, but with paint and
brushes, colors and forms ... they are crazy-passionate about their
work. That's the integral connection they share, even as their
backgrounds are as varied and divergent as the sprawling metropolis
from which they've emerged"--Bondo Wyszpolski "California Locos in
Manhattan Beach"
The multicultural idea of the California Locos is a shared
experience, a common one in Los Angeles with its melting pot
reality for centuries. NeitherI nor the other original Locos
invented it as much as we observed and expressed it in our time,
being involved variously in the early formation of surf and skate,
graffiti, west coast art, punk rock and blues. We and the idea were
born and raised in the eclectic cultural milieu of our City of Los
Angeles and we celebrate the aesthetic, ethnic and cultural
zeitgeist alive and well here, which has now expanded
internationally as a given.The original Locos do not claim
ownership - we claim our place and role in it as representatives in
that we were all "there" as it began and then unfurled. Before the
"fame" of these subcultures were the unknown and unsung builders of
it - those who did it for no other reason than their love for it
and the fact that it must be done. They helped lay the foundation
and we each know many.--Dave Tourjé "Book"
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