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Artist: Joey Montoya
Daman-Grafix https://www.deviantart.com/daman-grafix/about#about Daman-Grafix Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOH1LhvO8veF5X1dnJtajw Articles: Market Daze “Before, the only airbrush art you really saw was on lowrider cars and T-shirts. Now I believe there are three or four people including myself in the market who do either airbrush, spray paint or something that isn’t typical oil, acrylic, bristle brush,” the 33-year-old says.…
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Video: How Chicano Lowrider Culture Found a Home in Japan
In 1987, Junichi Shimodaira fell in love. He was visiting the United States for the first time when he spotted a car driving low and slow in Southern California. Steadily, Chicano car clubs—an outlet for cultural and political expression that dates back to the 1940s—won Junichi over. At his Paradise Road shop he repairs and…
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Artist: Victor Goler
“Gustavo Victor Goler was raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico among a family of Latin American art conservators and restorers. Goler’s early years were spent apprenticing in his families conservation studios where he learned wood carving skills by restoring 18th, 19th and 20th century Saints from Latin America and New Mexico. Goler began carving original…
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Article: Creating the “Rob job”: Car painter Robert Vanderslice
When you’ve got etched, polished chrome exhaust pipes snaking down the length of your ride, a gold or silver grill, a sparkling engine, rims, hood ornaments, and hydraulics, you need a flashy paint job to go with it. You would be hard-pressed to find a painter with a reputation as solid as that of Albuquerque…
