California Locos

Dave Tourjé was born and raised in the culturally eclectic Northeast L.A. of the 1970s and his upbringing amongst the skaters, gangs, and the area’s tribal friction play heavily in his work. Also a musician, Tourjé was a member of the influential L.A. band the Dissidents, playing shows with Camper Van Beethoven, Saccharine Trust, The Minutemen to name a few. Tourjé’s artwork oscillates between high and low, punk and institutional hegemony and was the subject of a one-man exhibition covering 15 years of paintings on acrylic glass at the Riverside Art Museum in 2002. It has been featured at the Oceanside Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, and Laguna Art Museum. In 1998, Tourjé helped to form the Chouinard Foundation after purchasing the home of Nelbert Chouinard, in order to help restore the lost history of one of the great art schools in the world.

• · FORWARD System of Independent Culture - Paulo Luca von Vacano, Publisher· INTRODUCTION One More Push - Dave Tourjé, Founder, California Locos· LOCOS BIOS California Locos Vs. Art History - Shana Nys Dambrot· DECADES OF LOCO, 60s - 00s· ESSAY Riding the Wave of Rebellion – California Locos and the “Birth of Now”- Michelle Deziel-Hernandez· CHOUINARD FOUNDATION, 1999· L.A. ABORIGINAL, 2011· LOS SAVAGES, 2011· ART SHOWS, 2014 – 2021· COLLISION OF VISIONS· LOCOS SIDEBARS· LOCOS FILM· PHOTO CREDITS