Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art

The first monograph on the exuberant, polymorphous art of Teddy Sandoval, whose work explored community, queerness and Chicano identity Accompanying the artists first retrospective, Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art examines the work of the inventive yet overlooked Los Angelesbased artist Teddy Sandoval (194995). A central figure in Los Angeless queer and Chicanx artistic circles, Sandoval was an active participant in international avant-garde movements. For 25 years, he produced subversive and playful artworks in a range of mediumsincluding ceramics, mail art, painting, printmaking, performance, photography, window displays and xerographythat explored the codes of gender and sexuality, particularly transforming conceptions of masculinity. This expansive publication surveys Sandovals work alongside other queer, Latinx and Latin American artists whose practices profoundly resonate. The expansive catalog features essays by C. Ondine Chavoya, David Evans Frantz, Raquel Gutirrez and Mari Rodriguez Binnie, as well as biographical entries on additional artists featured in the exhibition, among them, Flix ngel, Myrna Bez, lvaro Barrios, Ester Hernndez, Hudinilson Jr., Antonio Lopez, Mara Martnez-Caas, Marisol and Joey Terrill.