(b. Dinuba, California, 1944).
Estér Hernández is a painter and graphic artist who uses her work to make statements about Chicano culture and the negative impact of economic forces on it. Her art especially looks at rural farm communities in California. Hernandez was born in Dinuba California, in 1944. As an ex-farmworker of Yaqui-Mexican ancestry she concentrats around the Chicana woman. She was very involved with the Women Muralists in California. The last mural done by the group was titled, Rhomboidal Parallelogram, this ten feet by thirteen feet long six-panel painting portrayed the life of Latin American women. Her ideas foster life in both the beautiful and the ugly. She focuses on issues that revolve around the environment. She tends to draw from images that are geared towards nature. In her Sun Maid raisin box serigraph, she integrates the harmful usage of pesticides and herbicides. She makes a commentary on the civil war in Guatemala, Central A
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