Oral history interview with Gronk
name: label: Interviewee
content: Gronk, 1954-
label: Interviewer
content: Rangel, Jeffrey J.
label: Names
content: Asco (Group of artists)
label: Names
content: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Gallery)
label: Names
content: Los Four (Art group)
label: Names
content: Dreva, Jerry, 1945-1997
topic: label: Topic
content: Chicano artists
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- California -- Los Angeles
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. Funding for the interview provided by the Smithsonian Latino Fund.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Gronk, 1954-
label: Interviewer
content: Rangel, Jeffrey J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gronk (1954-) is an artist from California. Gronk, whose full name is Glugio Gronk Nicandro, was born in Los Angeles in 1954. As a member of the 1970s activist performance group, Asco (nausea), with Harry Gamboa, Jr., Patssi Valdez, and Willie Herron, Gronk arranged anti-war protests and painted graffiti murals.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Sound cassettes (Sound recording (ca. 6 hrs.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 94 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997 Jan. 20-23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gronk97
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Gronk conducted by Jeffrey Rangel for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Gronk discusses differences between two artists' group, Los Four and and Asco; the Chicano artists view of Asco; isolation from the Chicano arts movement as well as the mainstream avant-garde art scene; his relationship with Jerry Dreva and the development of mail art and the Dreva/Gronk Show: 1968-1978 at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; and his 1983 NEA fellowship for performance/conceptual work.