George Yepes
(20/21st century)
George Yepes is active/lives in California. George Yepes is known for mural painting-Chicano themes.
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Biography George Yepes
"George Yepes was born in East Los Angeles. He earned a degree
from California State University, Los Angeles, in business
administration. He also took painting classes at East Los Angeles
City College and worked both as an accountant and a muralist.
Yepes is a former member of East Los Streetscapers, a group of mural
painters active from 1979 to 1985. He has exhibited in 12 solo and 45
group shows at venues that have included the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art and the Sitges-Barcelona Olympics Exhibit. He has designed
more than 30 public murals as well as an album cover for Los Lobos, a
Grammy Award-winning music group from East Los Angeles. Yepes
established the Academia de Arte Yepes, the fir
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