MENDOCINO — The Mendocino Art Center has recently established a GoFundMe campaign in support of Mendocino artist Larry Fuente. The center seeks to raise $50,000 to help the artist recover from a fire that destroyed his home and workshop July 3.
Much of Fuente’s five decades of creative work and materials were lost in the fire. The Chicago-born artist moved to Mendocino in the late 1960s, after attending the Kansas City Art Institute.
Fuente was unharmed in the fire. An unnamed victim was rescued from the vehicle fire that the burn is suspected to have started in. He was treated on-site for serious injuries and was taken via air ambulance to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento for specialized care, where he is expected to make a recovery.
Fuente was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1947, and as a young adult attended the Kansas City Art Institute where he studied painting for several years in the mid-1960s. After moving to the Bay Area in the 1960s, Fuente transitioned to three-dimensional works. Fuente then relocated to Mendocino, where he has continued to work in the medium of assemblage.
Known nationally for his elaborately adorned assemblage sculptures, one of Fuente’s works, “Game Fish,” is on permanent display at the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He also had one of his art pieces, “Angel,” on the cover of National Geographic magazine.
Recently, the Mendocino Art Center hosted Fuente’s exhibition, “New World Hoarder,” in late 2019.
This solo exhibition was his first at the Art Center since 1980, and featured many of his most popular assemblage works — adorned with beads, rhinestones, shards of pottery, buttons, statuettes, religious icons, symbolic features and other ornamental objects.
That exhibit included his “Mad Cad,” a 1960 Cadillac affixed with various embellishments, which was parked in the MAC’s front yard for the duration of the showing.
The car took Fuente five years to cover in over 1,000,000 beads and baubles. The ornate Cadillac has been called historically significant to the community, and is usually a prominent feature of the Mendocino Fourth of July Parade. Fortunately, firefighters were able to save it from the fire.
His 1988 sculpture, “Game Fish,” is in permanent display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery.
Donations may be made through GoFundMe at gofundme.com/f/larry-fuente-fire-fun or through a link on the Mendocino Art Center website home page at https://ift.tt/1LoaWOx.
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