Claudio Jimenez Quispe

Bilingual Story Time for Preschoolers; Lecture/ Demonstration with Peruvian Master Retablo Artist Claudio Jimenez Quispe; Traditional Candlelight Procession with Giant Puppets and Mariachis (Starting 6pm from Water Street Bistro, on the river in front of 100 Petaluma Blvd N Ste 106, to the Petaluma Art Center for an evening of art, altars, theater, food, music and dance), and a Performance by the Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl and the Oakland Improv Collective (7pm at the Petaluma Art Center) Sunday:

EL PASO -- With apologies to world-renowned retablo artist Claudio Jimenez Quispe, the first time Nancy Hamilton saw a piece of retablo art, the El Pasoan thought it was cheesy.
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Most of the retablo art on exhibit is unsigned, and Quispe's works very well could be on display, Gerst heimer said.

What: Peruvian artist Claudio Jimenez Quispe will exhibit his collection of handcrafted retablos, devotional images typically placed behind an altar or table, April 9 through May 5.

LANCASTER - Peruvian artist Claudio Jimenez Quispe will exhibit his collection of handcrafted retablos beginning Monday at Antelope Valley College's Art Gallery.

Peruvian artist Claudio Jimenez Quispe will exhibit his collection of handcrafted retablos April 9-May 5 at Antelope Valley College's Art Gallery, 3041 W. Ave. K, Lancaster.

This year, some highlights include: Remembering Frida Kahlo with John Zarobell, Phd, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art who will present a review of the traveling exhibit of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work, recently on view at SFMOMA; lecture/ demonstration with Peruvian Master Retablo Artist Claudio Jimenez Quispe; workshop in making traditional sugar skulls, performance by the Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl, and Day of the Dead Alters have been created throughout Petaluma.

Artist Claudio Jiménez Quispe had to flee his countryside home in Ayacucho because of the Shining Path's insurgency. Unable to show his work during the unrest, he secretly chronicled the violence in retablos (traditional wooden display boxes depicting Catholic scenes).
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Claudio Jiménez Quispe and silkscreen artist Alfredo Márquez are also featured in the documentary.
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In the film, Quispe explains that he feared exhibiting his work under Fujimori's rule, and was forced to only exhibit his retablos abroad.

Claudio Jiminez Quispe, a Peruvian artist whose works a local from St Albans brought back from Peru

The University of San Marcos Museum of Art was having an exhibition of crosses by Claudio Jimenez Quispe, an artist from Ayacucho who now lives in Lima.I discovered that his brother owned the gallery/museum in Barranco which was filled with Ayacuchano retablos.I decided to contact Claudio since I was anxious to find other kinds of more traditional art which had taken on a more modern form, portraying social themes.I visited his home and workshop in San Juan de Lurigancho and met his father who was the master retablista in the family.I was quite impressed by Claudio's demeaner and way of speaking.Although the family lived in Lima, they still speak Quechua in the house and his Spanish was accented.It was clear that there was a division between the more commercial retablos that were made en masse for the market by various family members and friends of the family who came to work in the workshop and the more personal work that he designed and executed himself and which was exhibited at the museum.He had visited the US, touring with his work, and said that he liked the experience because there was much more appreciation for his work in the US.