Vincent Campos injects a sense of whimsy and strangeness into a form that is often serious and pious. Retablos, known as lámina in Mexico, depict saints or other Catholic iconography on a tablet of wood or tin, meant to be placed behind a church’s altar. Campos’s retablos stick to this script, representing saints and other Catholic imagery, but his figures have odd or humorous details: a caricatured face, a bag of Wonder Bread…
