Pride Float, Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade, Chicago
Entry/Object ID
2021.03k
Description
A group of people standing under a balloon arch at Chicago's 1981 pride parade.
Acquisition
Accession
2021.03
Source or Donor
Solís, Diana
Acquisition Method
Purchase
Credit Line
Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, Courtesy of the artist
Made/Created
Artist
Solís, Diana
Date made
1981
Dimensions
Height
14 in
Width
19 in
Exhibition
LATINXAMERICAN
Interpretative Labels
Label
Mexican-born artist and educator Diana Solís has lived in Chicago for the past 40 years where she pursued a career in photojournalism for various local newspapers and publications. The photographs in this series document Solís and her friends, as well as scenes from Pride parades and Gay and Lesbian rallies from 1970s to the 1990s. As a young Mexicana/Chicana photographer during this period, Solís’ life and work were very interconnected with the social and political struggles of the LGBTQ+ and women’s communities in Chicago. Solís has worked on a range of media including comics, illustration, painting, drawing, printmaking, and site-specific murals and installations, but only recently has she come back to photography with a series of works related to COVID in the neighborhood of Pilsen, Chicago.
