Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Diane Gamboa art documentation collection
- Dates:
- 1980-2011
- Creators:
- Gamboa, Diane
- Abstract:
- Materials of Diane Gamboa, a Los Angeles-based Chicana multi-media artist.
- Extent:
- 2.34 Linear Feet (2 flat boxes)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Diane Gamboa art documentation collection, CEMA 150. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists mainly of one large binder assembled by Gamboa that includes a cross section of documentation representing her work. Materials include ephemera and photographs of the artist's exhibits between 1980 and 2011. The rest of the collection consists of slide documentation provided by the artist concerning her work that is found in the Self Help Graphics and Art Archives (CEMA 3) and in the Shifra Goldman Papers (CEMA 119) also housed in UCSB's Special Research Collections' California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives.
- Biographical / historical:
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Diane Gamboa (1957- ) is a visual artist born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. She attended East Los Angeles College, and earned a degree from the Otis Art Institute in 1984. Gamboa has been producing, exhibiting work, and curating visual art for over 40 years, bridging performance, photography, drawing, and installation together by examining themes of gender, representation, and the politics of everyday life.
In the 80s, Gamboa photo-documented the East L.A. punk rock scene, was involved in the conceptual multi-media performance art group ASCO, and organized site-specific "Hit and Run" paper fashion shows - which garnered so much attention that sevearal of the disposable outfits she created are now perserved in personal collections and in museums. During the 1990s and the 2000s, Gamboa continued to refine her skills and her ideas - branching out to create new works using acrylics, oil paintings, drawings, silkscreen prints, and ink on aluminum. In 1997, she began her "Pin Up" series of ink drawings of the male as subject on vellum as an in-depth study of interpersonal relationships between women and men, the intersection of gender in the body, and the relationships between the body and the inanimate. From these drawings, Gamboa also developed her "Endangered Species" series, which recreates some of her "Pin Up" drawings in a three-dimensional form.
Her work continues to been shown locally and across the nation - such as her solo exhibitions "Bruja-Ha" at the Tropico de Nopal Gallery and "Chica Chic" in the Correia Gallery in Santa Monica, and her participation in nationally traveling group shows like Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA) and Xican-a.o.x. Body.
Outside of exhibiting her own work, Gamboa has been involved in many different forms of art education - ranging from after-school programs, community workshops, art programs for homeless youth, and teaching roles at colleges and universities.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated by Diane Gamboa, 2013.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-04-07 16:36:08 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and may be retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assignees for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Diane Gamboa art documentation collection, CEMA 150. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062