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Jacqueline Valenzuela with her lowrider "La Playgirl." Valenzuela highlights women and the LGBTQ+ community in lowriding culture through her artwork and the car club she helped found.In these challenging times, the need for reliable local reporting has never been greater. Put a value on the impact of our year-round coverage. Help us continue to highlight LA stories, hold the powerful accountable, and amplify community voices. Your support keeps our reporting free for all to use.
And while the combination of her love of lowriders and fine art makes sense to her, it’s not always obvious to others. “It’s funny that in the art world, sometimes I'm not taken seriously because of the lowrider aspect, but then in the lowrider world sometimes I'm not taken seriously because of the fine art aspect.”
She gained the confidence to pursue fine art as a career while getting her art degree at Cal State Long Beach, and her work is now in galleries and museums. “I feel like it's so embedded in culture,” Valenzuela says, “that unfortunately it's gone into the lowrider community as well. That's why we thought it was important to carve out a space for ourselves and make sure that people that we love and really care for feel safe in the space that we're like making for ourselves in the lowrider community.
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