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Patssi Valdez (born 1951) is an American Chicana artist. She is a founding member of the art collective Asco. Valdez's work is a part of Chicana avant-garde expressionism, ranging from an assortment of mediums, such as painting, sculpture, and fashion design. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Valdez' installations are considered feminist works that defy cultural expectations of a woman's role in society. The temporary nature of her installations also tap into the "Mexican cultural practice of the impermanent."
Since the 1980s Valdez has focused on her painting. She honed her skills and invited honest critique of her first works which helped boost her confidence in her painting. Valdez's painting are bright, colorful and "seem just a little enchanted." "I've been trying to get away from the brighter palette for years," she says, "but the more I try, it just comes out." Her "vibrant" work is very emotive and has a sense of magical realism. Valdez's subject matter is often focused on the female figure or domestic scenes and settings. Her work draws on her "private experiences, the nature of which are distinctly painful and feminist." Valdez's multi disciplinary Avant Garde practice has encompassed various mediums, including her lesser known works in Fashion design. Her works in fashion have been part of multiple national and international installations that have exhibited her unique Paper Fashion Designs. It was said that in a 2014 conversation at The University of Nottingham's with Lucy Bradknock Valdez described her relationship with fashion during her time within her the Asco Chicano Art collective in a way that revealed the importance fashion held in her designs as an expression of the times underlying socio-economic and political concerns as a Chicana feminism artist.
In 2000, she showed at Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica. In 2006, she showed at the Angels Gate Cultural Center. In 2011, she showed at Fowler Museum at UCLA.
In 2017 to 2018 she was part of the area wide Pacific Standard Time exhibition, her exhibit Judithe Hernández and Patssi Valdez: One Path Two Journeys. was at the Millard Sheets Art Center. "These artists have profoundly influenced the aesthetic voices of Latinas in the latter half of the 20th century, and for the first time will be shown together."
Her work is included in the Xican-a.o.x. Body group presentation, which traveled from the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, California, to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, in 2024. The exhibition and accompanying publication is an expansive take on the Chicano experience and its intersection with contemporary art narratives from the 1960s to present day. Patssi Valdez is located in the show both individually at PAMMTV, and as part of Asco collective.
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