Mysterious Marriage
The original hangs in the permanent collection of the Albuquerque Museum of Art, Science and history. Dressed in Pachuco style (the original “Zoot Suit”), the newlyweds are of opposite colors, evoking the Yin and Yang of cosmic union. The altar screen features New Mexico’s favorite saints, from Our Lady of Guadalupe, San Antonio, San Martin, the Santo Nino de Atocha. The congregation includes living plants and flowers, and behind the night sky is star-studded and a full moon rises.
24" X 21.5" $520.00
20" X 17.9" $360.00
16" X 14.3 $230.00
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Pilgrimage
The original is in the permanent collection of the Harwood Museum in Taos. During Holy Week there are pilgrimages all over New Mexico and Mexico. Here all the rich diversity of New Mexican culture is featured, from Native American and Spanish to crypto Jews, all joined together in procession.
21" X 25" $520.00
18" X 21.5" $390.00
12" x 14.4" $170.00
These cars are painted with flowers, a mermaid, and brilliant metal-flecked colors. They have come to a fiesta that could be anywhere in New Mexico or Chihuahua.
35" x 15" $500.00
28" x 12" $340.00
21" x 9" $190.00
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Adobe Oven-Cooked Corn Day
This is a visual recipe in two parts, Chicos de horno Day and Night. This is the final stage of the recipe. When the corn has cooked all night in the oven the door and smoke hole seals are removed and the corn is removed, the husks are peeled back and braided into ristras and hung in the sun to dry. Prepared in this way, corn will last for years and cooked with beans will provide a complete protein.28" x 16.8" $450.00
23" x 13.8" $300.00
17" x 10.2" $170.00
Adobe Oven-Cooked Corn Night
This is the first stage of a visual recipe, when corn with the husk on is piled over coals in an adobe oven. The door and smoke hole is sealed, and the corn is left to cook overnight. Adobe has tremendous thermal-storage capacities and holds enough heat from the fire and coals to slowly bake the corn until the flavor is perfect – like no other corn.
28" x 16.8" $450.00
23" x 13.8" $300.00
17" x 10.2" $170.00
Kitchen of the Saints
The chefs are Sor Juana Inez and San martin de Porras. Sor Juana (born 1651 in Mexico), here portrayed wearing her funeral crown, was a nun who became the most widely-read poet of her time in the Americas. She corresponded with the greatest minds of her time and was known as an excellent cook. Here she is seasoning a dish held by a cherub. San martin de Porras, (1579, Lima Peru) was a lay Dominican brother who worked in the kitchen. In my heavenly kitchen there is deep democracy, hence even the little demon has a job, feeding the fire under the tile stove, a skill he has perfected over eternity.
18" X 24" $435.00
14" x 21" $300.00
10" x 15" $150.00
ME, MY BONES AND MY ROSES
This is a self-portrait of the artist holding the most fortuitous of the Tarot cards. The view from the window is from a favorite restaurant in Guanajuato, El Gallo Pitagorico or The Pythagorean Rooster.
18" X 25" $450.00
14.4" X 20" $290.00
10.8" X 15" $180.00
My Beloved Dead
In New Mexico death bears the name of Dona Sebastiana, and she is represented driving a little wooden cart and carrying a drawn bow and arrow. The artist gave her a cart with low rider fenders, emerald-green diamond-tuck upholstery, and a beaded quiver for her arrows. The passengers are those family and friends who have gone on, including her parents who are sitting in the front seat. Her father, Alfredo Antonio Rodriguez is taking a photograph of the funeral taking place on earth below.19" x 26.1" $500.00
16" x 21.9" $340.00
12" x 16.5" $200.00
Patron of The Sobadoras
There is no English equivalent for the traditional sobadoras of New Mexico, who practice a healing art that combines Rolfing, massage and Reiki. This is an image of the spiritual patron of sobadoras. She towers above the landscape, and her giant hands radiate power. At her fee tis a shelf made to hold “ofrendas” or offerings of flowers, candles, crystals and found objects.30" x 15.6" $450.00
25" x 13" $325.00
20" x 10.4" $200.00
QUANTUM CURANDERA
In the immense solitude of the Grand Canyon, a figure from another dimension makes magic and manipulates energy in a mysterious ceremony while brother wolf keeps watch. This is a hand carved “nicho”, four inches deep.
27" x 18.5" $450.00
22" x 15.1" $330.00
16" x 11" $175.00
Sanctuary of the Animals
San Francisco, who loved animals, is seated at the fountain, Holding a lemur and cupping a frog with his left hand. San Martin, the founder of the first dog and cat hospital in the Americas, releases a flock of parrots into the sky. Animals of all kinds are gathered here, in the safely and beauty generated by these iconic figures of our feathered, furred and scaled fellow creatures.
18.75" x 25" $450.00
15" x 20" $300.00
11.25" x 15" $170.00
The corrridos are ballads extolling the exploits of Mexico’s heroes, telling the legends, folklore and current events. The corridos are kind of musical newspapers, sung by Mexico’s most beloved singers with great passion and emotional intensity. This rendition of the “Corrido de la hija de nadie” is so full of feeling that it makes even the cherubs cry.
30" x 17.5" $520.00
24" x 14" $340.00
18" x 10.5" $180.00
My Low Rider Heaven
In my Low Rider Heaven cars run on non-polluting energy, hence animals such as bears, coyotes and bears are glad to join the procession along with masked dancers and ancestors . On the right we seen San Isidrio, patron saint of farmers, with a plow decked out with colorful low rider fenders. The banners carry feminine archetypical figures, such as Giaia and the Guadalupana. Some members of the congregation are plants and flowers.
17.5" x 29" $500.00
14.5" x 24" $340.00
10.3" x 17" $170.00
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PAREJA BAILANDO
A couple dance flamenco on the edge of the ocean. The checkerrboarrd pattern so common in the artist's work represents the uneven space time continuum.
24" x 21" $400.00
20" x 17.5" $340.00
10" x 14" $140.00
CASA DE LA CURANDERA
This shows a traditional curandera, or healer, using an egg to diagnose her client. The egg is rubbed all over the patient's body, broken into a glass of water and read just as one reads tea leaves, or the Tarot.
24" x 21" $500.00
20" x 17.50" $340.00
16" x 14" $225.00
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