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La Frontera/The Border: An Interdisciplinary Examination

Richard Lou and Robert Sanchez, Los Anthropolocos, 1992

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Los Anthropolocos: Richard A. Lou & Robert J. Sanchez Richard Alexander Lou was born in San Diego, CA. and raised in San Diego, CA and Tijuana, BCN, MX. Richard grew up in a biracial family which was spiritually, and intellectually guided by both an anticolonialist Chinese father and a culturally affirming Mexicana mother. Educated at Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA receiving an A.A. in Fine Art in 1981; California State University at Fullerton, CA receiving a B.A. in Fine Art in 1983; Clemson University, Clemson, SC receiving an M.F.A. in Fine Art in 1986. As a Chicano Artist the consistent themes he has explored are the subjugation of his community by the Dominant Culture and White Privilege. Lou has exhibited in many venues including: DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA; Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City DF, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Cornerhouse Art Gallery, Manchester, England; the 3rd International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea; Miami Museum, Miami, FL; Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. His art work has been published and/or cited in various newspapers, magazines, catalogs, electronic media, and over 30 scholarly books.

Robert J. Sanchez was born in Austin, Texas in 1952. Residence, San Diego, California. RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Robert J. Sanchez:New Interiors for a Restless Border, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA 1999; Border (Meta)Morphosis, Terrain, San Francisco, California, 1998; Los Antropolocos, Cetys Universidad, Tijuana, BCN, Mexico 1998. RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Photographic Memory and Other Shots in the Dark, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, California, 2002; Third Istanbul Biennial, Greater Istanbul Municipality Nejat F. Eczacibasi Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, 1992; Venice Biennale/ XLIV Esposizionale D’Arte, Venice Biennale: Italy, 1990. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Alvarado, Joaquin, “Robert J. Sanchez,” Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art – Volume II, Bilingual Press, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, 2002, pp. 254-255; Johnson, Katytie, “Los Anthropolocos,” Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art – Volume I, Bilingual Press, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 2002, pp. 44-45; Letellier Pascal, “Robert Sanchez/Le Demon De Anges-16 Chicano Artists,”Le Demon De Anges, Nantes, France and Barcelona, Spain, 1989, pp. 130-138 and 212-214. SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Quincy Troupe/Margaret Porter Troupe Collection, La Jolla, California; Irwin/ Taka Weinberg Collection, Chicago, Illinios; Posti-Tele Museum, Helsinki Finland.

Los Anthropolocos was an ongoing fictional narrative about the exploits of two futuristic Chicano anthropologists/archaeologists, Dr. Ritchie A. Lou and Dr. Bobby J. Sanchez, who discover and study white ethnicity. The Colorless Empire (Caucasians) is believed to be extinct and in its stead is the triumphant Chicano nation of United Aztlan. Using what one would consider the Swiftian model of parody and satire, we as Los Anthropolocos, dismantled the System from the usual players, in which, the “normal” relationships of power are reversed. Instead of Caucasian anthropologists perusing and ascribing meaning to the remains of some exotic culture, Chicano anthropologists, operating within the same parameters of Scientific Inquiry and, of course, the expressed authority of the racialized status quo, peruse and declare meaning to the remains of the White Race or as we have coined “them”, the “Colorless”.