Oral history interview with Benito Huerta
name: label: Interviewee
content: Huerta, Benito, 1952-
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
label: Creator
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
label: Names
content: Galería de la Raza (San Francisco, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Lynn Goode Gallery
label: Names
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
label: Names
content: Beardsley, John
label: Names
content: Caton, David
label: Names
content: Chin, Mel, 1951-
label: Names
content: Garza, Carmen Lomas
label: Names
content: Hernandez, John, 1952-
label: Names
content: Livingston, Jane
label: Names
content: Pitman, Bonnie
label: Names
content: Vargas, Kathy
label: Names
content: Yanez, Rene
label: Names
content: Zamudio-Taylor, Victor
topic: label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Curators -- Texas -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art criticism
label: Topic
content: Painting -- Technique
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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Huerta, Benito, 1952-
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
label: Creator
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Beniton Huerta (1952-) is an artist from Arlington, Tex. Interviewer Cary Cordova (1970-) is an art historian.
function: label: Function
content: Art commissions
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Sound discs (Sound recording, master (5 hrs., 52 min.), digitial, 2 5/8 in.)
label: Extent
content: 84 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2004 Feb. 29-Mar. 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.huerta04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound discs
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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 Benito Huerta conducted 2004 Feb. 29-Mar. 2, by Cary Cordova, for the Archives of American Art, in Arlington, Tex.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Huerta speaks of his early childhood; interest in art; attending graduate school at New Mexico State University; the exhibition "Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors," 1987; interest in music and planning programs while attending undergraduate school at the University of Houston; his relationship with artist Mel Chin; his exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Lynn Goode Gallery and an exhibition entitled "Aneurism"; criticism of his artwork; living in San Francisco for two years; Galería de la Raza; painting on black velvet; the exhibition "Chulas Fronteras (Beautiful Borders)" 1986; his chalupas series; the value of curating versus making his own art; "Seen and Unseen" at Diverse Works 1983; "Cowboys, Cadillacs, and Computers" Lawndale Art and Performance Center, University of Houston, 1985; his installation pieces; maps and global images in his work; his co-founding of the art Magazine "Artlies"; public commissions; connections to North Carolina; the Serie project; and the artists he has worked with since arriving at University of Texas, Arlington. Huerta also recalls David Caton, Jane Livingston, John Beardsley, René Yañez, Carmen Lomas Garza, John Hernandez, Kathy Vargas, Victor Zamudio Taylor, Bonnie Pitman, and others.