approach: Joe Zaldivar was born in Rosemead, California and has been working as a studio artist at First Street Gallery Art Center since 2011. studied art at Mount San Antonio College. He works in a variety of styles and media but is best known for his innovative use of Google Maps. Using his iPad as a reference material, Zaldivar creates aerial view maps of locations around the world, often autobiographical, as well as street level renditions of the same locations using the Street View function of Google Maps. The resulting works, which combine technology and perspectival architectural drawing in a style reminiscent of cartoon animation, twist time and space both spatially and conceptually.
Supported studio: First Street Gallery Art Center-Tierra Del Sol Foundation
Studio website: https://www.tierradelsol.org/programs/1st-street-gallery-art-center/
Previous exhibitions/projects: Joe Zaldivar's work has been receiving great press recently, with articles about him and his work published recently in The Avenue Magazine and The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Zaldivar was honored with two solo shows in 2015 at First Street Gallery Claremont Community Foundation and has participated in group shows at such venues as Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremont, California, Storefront of Architecture in New York, New York, The SPecial Olympics World games in Los Angeles, California, Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, California Baptist University in Riverside, California, West Los Angeles College Gallery in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles City Hall Bridge Gallery in Los Angeles, California, and The Doll Factory in Los Angeles, California.
