Luis Jimenez - El Paso, Texas
Luis Jimenez, El Paso, Texas

Luis Jimenez - El Paso, Texas

Luis Jimenez (1940-2006), was a sculptor born in El Paso. He grew up in the Segundo Barrio neighborhood. At the age of six Jimenez started to work in his father's shop, which created signs. There, he became familiar with industrial materials such as fiberglass and the paints that could be used on them. These materials would play a great role in his later work. Read more: http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Fl-Ka/Jim-nez-Luis.html#ixzz3O5E7tp8l Jiménez worked in the industrial, unabashedly commercial medium of fiberglass, and he drew on such commonplace art traditions as Mexican wall calendar prints, cowboy imagery, and "lowrider" truck decoration. Yet his work reflected a detailed knowledge of Mexican and European artistic traditions. He made sculptures for public places, intended to be seen and understood by the thousands of ordinary people, in many cases of Latino descent, who would pass by them every day, yet he also had a strong following among sophisticated art collectors.

Area: Central / South Central

Source: Special Collections

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