Supported by the patronage of further art professionals, Gutierrez finished his graduate studies at the Instituto Allende in Mexico’s San Miguel de Allende, an outpost of Berkeley art instructors, GI Bill students, and international modernism.
Luis Gutierrez is a Mexican-American artist based in Los Gatos, California, United States of America. He received an Associate of Arts degree from Diablo Valley College in 1954. A Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University in 1957. And an Master of Fine Arts degree from the Instituto San Miguel Allende in 1958.
He has taught at Pittsburg High School and San Jose City College.
There, Gutierrez continued working through the influence of Picasso and Matisse. Returning to San Jose, he took a teaching job at San Jose City College, where he inspired students with unorthodox assignments, such as making a piece based on a shameful secret, or drawing with the left hand, so as to circumvent the censorious left brain and its obedient right hand.
Gutierrez assimilated aspects of Abstract Expressionism, the Bay Area Figuration, Beat, Funk, and People’s into his practice. Gutierrez retired in 1995.
1958: Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 1960: Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California 1961: San Jose State College, San Jose, California 1971: De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California 1973: Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California 1974: Chico State University Art Gallery, Chico, California 1979: Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California 1994: Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California 2000: Tercera Gallery, Los Gatos, California 2007: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California 2010: Axis Gallery, San Jose, California 2011: Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, California.
