ABSTRACT
Formed in the early 1970s by four Chicano artists from east Los Angeles, the Asco collective set out to test the limits of art-its production, distribution, reception, and exhibition. Its founding members,1 Harry Gamboa, Jr., Gronk, Willie Herrón, and Patssi Valdez, engaged in public, performance, and conceptual art in a direct response to the social and political turbulence in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early 1970s.2
