Gilbert "Magu" Lujan, an Art advocate during the sixties, helped to define Chicano Art as the founder of Los Four. They changed art history, by having the first Chicano art exhibition in the city of Los Angeles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1974. Magu and Los Four brought to the forefront, a sample visual vocabulary of 'Chicano Culture' as part of the larger 'community movimiento' seeking both definition and validation.

In his artworks, Magu has continued to promote visual examples of Chicana/o culture as a means to gain appreciation for its' aesthetic substance. He takes social phenomena as Low-Riding and Grafitti and presents it as an artistic outlet for public consumption,as compared to sculpture and calligraphy.

Art education and organizing artists via the "Mental Menudo" talk forums has been a preoccupation of his for over 35 years. These sessions were designed to advance, promote, network and discuss the notion of a chicano/ a cultural aesthetic. These aesthetic viewpoints as ethno-cultural experiences are wide and varied, producing a broad band of artistic intents and directions. We are also seeing an expanded measure of economic progress by a larger participation of Latinos in Xicanada art-collecting as a relatively new phenomena, as both an investment and cultural identification.

"Magulandia, drive-thru , Aztlan" is a serigraph print and an enhanced version of one of the tiles made for the Hollywood/Vine metro station. The anthropomorphic characters play out the human condition, as with the popular cultural ritual of cruising and drive-thru food stands. These narratives are meant to document and illustrate the jovial cultural characteristics of contemporary life with a humanistic template. Humor, puns and irony are common elements of his body of work and further recognizable for its' refined folkish 'rasquachiness'.

Magu's residence/ studio is located in the Pomona Art Colony, a burgeoning art community. Located approximately thirty miles east of Los Angeles, off the San Bernardino freeway and is available for art services, commissions and consultantships.