Exhibit on famous Chicano murals of LA comes to SF
Jessica Hough was in a Los Angeles alley studying a mural on a decaying downtown wall when she heard a woman’s voice greet her from over the fence.
“Can I help you?” said the voice.
Turns out Hough could use the help because as director of exhibitions for the California Historical Society, she was working on the curation of a new show, and the woman over the fence was the mother of Willie Herron III, who painted “The Wall That Cracked Open” in 1972. That image now makes its Northern California debut in “Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/o Murals Under Siege,” in the historical society’s main gallery on Mission Street in San Francisco.