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Cruising low and slow: The ‘Lowrider Capital of the World’ is seeing a rolling revival—thanks to local pride, pageantry, and hydraulics
“Car culture is central to life in many American small towns: Rituals like weekend cruises and fixing up a first beater become rites of passage where distances are long, gas is cheap, and public transportation nonexistent. But even among the most car-crazy of small towns, Española, New Mexico stands out. It has long been the…
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Artist: Robert Vanderslice
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/robert.vanderslice.35?fref=nf Videos: Robert Vanderslice: 11 Miles of Tape “Rob Vanerslice, artist and award winning custom car painter, takes us through his personal journey and the process of bringing a lowrider to life through paint.” 25 min Articles: Artist Profile: Rob Vanderslice Interview with Rob Vanderslice with Lay it Low. https://www.layitlow.com/threads/rob-vanderslice-paint-jobs.173745/ Creating the “Rob…
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Artist: Luis Tapia
“Luis Tapia is a pioneering Chicano artist who for forty-five years has pushed the art of polychrome wood sculpture to new levels of craftsmanship and social and political commentary. Tapia’s extraordinary figurative works speak to the complexity of a multilayered Latino/Hispano/Chicano identity, history, and contemporary culture, offering compelling insights and challenging perspectives on life in…
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Artist: Jack Parsons
Photographer Jack Parsons has spent almost forty years investigating the light, landscapes and cultures of the American Southwest. In September 2006, New Mexico honored his unique career with the Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts. http://www.jackparsonsdigital.com
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Lowrider Lifestyle – Raising the Bar on Chrome and Banana Seats
“As the story goes in the early 1960s kids all over California started taking part in the lowrider lifestyle by customizing their bicycles and mimicking what they saw their older brothers or fathers were doing to cars and motorcycles. Just because you were a kid, it did not mean you could not have some cool…
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Artist: Orlando Martinez
Articles: Betting Big On This 1983 Monte Carlo That’s Remained In A Constant State Of Change Introduced in 1970 and touted as the “personal luxury car,” this custom 1983 Chevy Monte Carlo is the epitome of that label. The car derived its name from the famous city in Monaco and has since become a piece…
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Artist: Pam Jaramillo
Lowriders: Riding High The coolest cars in the Southwest take it low and slow. Two museum exhibits and a new book fuel a native son’s journey of discovery into their blue-collar roots and metal-flake future. https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/lowriders-usner/
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Artist: Nani Chacon
Nani Chacon has more than twenty years of experience painting in public spaces. Early on, she began as a graffiti artist, learning and growing from the challenges the medium presented. Chacon worked to develop her technical skills as a large-scale painter, excelling in scale, color, design, composition and style. The experience also taught her about…
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Artist: Arthur LowLow Medina
Articles: Lowrider scene’s got girl power For the Medina sisters, lowriders have always been a part of life. https://www.abqjournal.com/1340121/lowrider-scenes-got-girl-power.html Lowriders Are the Beating Heart of Chicano Culture in the Southwest Outside El Santuario De Chimayo, 20 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Arthur “Lowlow” Medina leans forward on his wooden staff. The local artist…
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Artist: Rose B. Simpson
Rose B. Simpson is a mixed-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. Her work engages ceramic sculpture, metals, fashion, performance, music, installation, writing, and custom cars. She received an MFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2018, is…
