Title: A SUNDAY AFTERNOON CAPTURING ìTHE COLORLESS ONESî ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRANDE JATTE, 2002 Artists: ìLos Anthropolocosî - Robert J. Sanchez and Richard A. Lou Exhibition Dates: April 26 – June 15, 2002

Seurat's classic meditation on the poetics of a refined society and its cultural practices is ironically interrupted by “Los Anthropolocos” (“The Crazy Anthropologists”) posing stoically while on a “safari,” in pursuit of the fabled “Colorless Ones” (a supposedly “extinct” specious of the human race). The Chicano artists Robert J. Sanchez and Richard A. Lou (“Los Anthropolocos”) sit reflectively, with their two prized White specimens between them, as they assess and evaluate the monumental anthropological task that lies before them.. Appropriating Seurat's "masterpiece," (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte, 1884-86), “Los Anthropolocos” have transposed the politics of identity and race. Also, they have subverted Seurat's “revolutionary” formalist attempt in developing “Pointillism” (a method of painting that relied upon the observer's eye to “mix” the dots/”points” of colors) through their use of a digital medium. “Los Anthropolocos” invert color as a signifier of power, and explore the relationships of power between communities of color and the “dominant” (“white”) culture, “high art,” the “Western Canon,” "ethnic art," and post-modernity. All this as they contemplate the need for a bigger “net!”