ASCO (Spanish for “nausea”) is the celebrated avante garde Chicano art collective founded by Harry Gamboa, Jr., Gronk, Willie Herron and Patssi Valdez in 1972. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s ASCO was the premiere urban art collective, working in traditional art forms like murals and paintings but more renowned for their flamboyant performance art productions. When the group disbanded, each artist went on to continue an enviable career in the arts. Latinopia wanted to find out how this legendary group got started and so asked members Harry Gamboa, Jr. and Gronk to talk about the early years of ASCO.