Asco was an East Los Angeles based Chicano artist collective, active from 1972 to 1987. Asco adopted its name as a collective in 1973, making a direct reference to the word's significance in Spanish ("asco"), which is disgust or repulsion.

“ASCO: Without Permission” is an upcoming documentary that chronicles story of a 1970s Chicano art group founded by Patssi Valdez, Willie Herrón III, Gronk and Harry Gamboa Jr.

Mar 27, 2025 · All four founding members of ASCO became some of the most notable Chicano artists, later exhibiting works in revered museums around the United States. But in their early days, the group was...

Asco (1972–1987) began as a tight-knit core group of artists from East Los Angeles composed of Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk, Willie Herrón, and Patssi Valdez. Taking their name from the forceful Spanish word for disgust and nausea, Asco used performance, public art, and multimedia to respond to social and political turbulence in Los Angeles and beyond.

Mar 19, 2025 · In the 1970s and ‘80s, traces of the artist collective Asco, named after the Spanish word for “disgust,” could be seen all over East L.A. The then-teenage creatives pulled all kinds of high ...

Apr 2, 2016 · Asco means disgust or nausea in Spanish and aptly expressed the young artists’ aversion to America’s unjust social and political landscape. The group developed a highly stylized body of work that reflected their avant-garde sensibility and activist impulses.

Apr 11, 2025 · Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger documents 15 years of ASCO, the groundbreaking East Los Angeles-based Chicano art collective, in his latest documentary ASCO: Without Permission.Active during the 70s and 80s, the trailblazing group comprised School of Art faculty Harry Gamboa Jr., Patssi Valdez, Glugio “Gronk” Nicandro, and Willie Herrón III.

Mar 4, 2025 · The new documentary "Asco: Without Permission" delves into the history and legacy of celebrated Chicano art collective Asco.

Nov 18, 2010 · In the late 1960s, four young Chicano artists in East Los Angeles began collaborating in various combinations, eventually forming an art collective and taking the name Asco — as in ‘me da asco’ or ‘it (your art) disgusts me’.

High art being art within the classical pantheon, such as painting and sculpting, and low art being craft, functional, and street art, including textiles, ceramics, and murals.