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SUBVERTISEMENTS:

Using Ads & Logos for Protest & Solidarity

CSPG's 2025 exhibition, Subvertisements, features posters that remix and parody well-known logos and advertising imagery to draw attention to social issues and protest injustice.

Some posters promote real boycotts against real products, such as Gallo Wine, Nestlé, Coca Cola, and Tesla. Others are fake ads about real issues, including the Viet Nam and Iraq wars, climate catastrophe, and genetically modified food. Corporate logos are used to make anti-corporate statements about globalization, consumerism, and worker exploitation.

Whether the posters in Subvertisements amuse or enrage, their purpose is to encourage us to look at the world and our role in it more critically.

SECTIONS

Dig deeper into the exhibition's themes with the annotations.

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People Over Profits!

Las Personas por Encima de los Beneficios

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Corporate Media

Los Medios Corporativos

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Real Products Real Protest

Productos y Protestas Reales

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Health Care Not Wealth Care

​Cuidado de la Salud, No el Cuidado de la Riqueza

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Big Banks

Los Grandes Bancos

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Anti - War

Contra la Guerra

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Pollution, Climate Change & Environmental Justice

Contaminación, Cambio Climático

y Justicia

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Education Not Incarceration

Educación No Encarcelamiento

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Olympics Protests

Protestas Olímpicas

EVENTS

Take a look at past Subvertisements exhibition events

 PRINTMAKING 

 WORKSHOP 

RSVP

Led by Ernesto Vazquez

FREE
Space is limited

June 7 | 1 - 4 PM

Mercado La Paloma

3655 S Grande Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90007 

NOT FOR SALE:

Subverting Ads to Take Action

Join us for a virtual panel discussion between artist Lalo Alcaraz, SA Bachman, and Winston Tseng. Moderated by CSPG Archive Director Emily Sulzer.

RSVP

Via Zoom

June 12 | 4 - 5:30 PM

FREE

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