Eduardo Oropeza

Eduardo Oropeza (1927 – September 11, 2003)^[1] is a contemporary artist.

A native of California's Silicon Valley and longtime resident of east Los Angeles, Oropeza began his academic training with Social Studies. After taking an art course, he ultimately changed major and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from San Jose State. He follows this with postgraduate work at San Jose, San Diego State at Long Beach and Palomar College.^{[citation needed]}

Oropeza public art work in Los Angeles is a ceramic mosaic on the Self Help Graphics Workshop building located at Ceasar Chavez and Gage streets in East Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

Oropeza is represented by Glenn Green Galleries in Santa Fe (Tesuque), New Mexico since 1988. Glenn and Sandy Green met Eduardo at Self Help Graphics Workshop in East LA. With encouragement from the Greens he produced a large collection of bronze sculptures.

Oropeza has exhibited his work at the Scottsdale's Museum of the West, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois, McNay Art Museum, among other venues.^{[citation needed]}

Selected collections

LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art
McNay Museum of Art
Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University
City of Sacramento, California
Eartha Kitt
Juanita and Michael Jordan
Black Entertainment Television
Mary Tyler Moore
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago
St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco, Ca
Chris Paul
Mayor's office, City of Los Angeles, Ca

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References

^ "Eduardo Oropeza (United States, California, 1927 - 2003)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-01-29.

External links

[1] "Eduardo Oropeza (United States, California, 1927 - 2003)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-01-29.

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