Art. Latino/Latina Studies. The B-movie THE GIANT CLAW is Gronk's Citizen Kane in this reprise of Mitch MacFee's and Mlle Mathematician's meeting with, what else, a giant claw. Drawing for Gronk is writing, or perhaps writing is drawing, possibly a book of poetry, since its language is images, each page organized with the fragility of poems, laced with elegant verbal and visual puns. 100 illustrations. Foreword by Gail Wronsky translated into Spanish by Alicia Partnoy.

Author City: Los Angeles, CA USA

Chicano painter, printmaker, and performance artist Gronk contributes the cover art for What Books Press. Known for his murals, Gronk also has created stage design for the Latino Theater Company, the East West Players, the LA Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera. He's also collaborated on music composed for the Kronos Quartet. He has exhibited at or curated work for many museums, include the UCLA Hammer, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, the San Francisco Mexican Museum, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, and the San Jose Museum of Art. He was given a career retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he was in residence. He was a founding member of ASCO, a multimedia arts collective in the 1970s. Born in East Los Angeles, he now makes his home in downtown LA.