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Rudy Herrera was born in El Paso Texas in 1985 and is of Tigua decent. He left El Paso at the age of . He spent his youth in El Paso and the surrounding area, specifically Jaurez. His move to San Antonio was a hard transition but he would later embrace it as his home. As it was the first time in his youth that a structured and stable home life was available. He found a family as well as later created one. Leaving for some time he came back to the city he loved wanting to be one of the many success stories that inspired him. All the while staying a practicing artist even when it was not lucrative or sustainable financially. Today, rudy still strives to push himself in his artistic endeavors. Rudy Herrera creates large colorful imagery. Often murals, but sometimes large canvases. Rudy uses this medium to speak to an audience who may not gravitate to the galleries as he himself has a natural aversion to such curated paces. He speaks to those he views as his peers and contemporaries and makes them his first and most important audience. He uses spray paint and acrylic but has also resorted to use anything that will leave large marks. He speaks from a transitional generation in a brown voice. One that is just as far away from his Native culture as it is close to what may be considered American culture. With an honesty and confusion, Rudy works to push or instigate a dialogue to make him and others feel less foreign to each other.
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Artist Type: Other; Visual Arts: Ceramist, Constructions/Collage, Craftsperson, Illustrator, Maker, Mixed Media Artist, Muralist, Painter, Printmaker, Textiles
Artist Style: Visual Art: Conceptual, Contemporary, Decorative/Ornamental, Documentary, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Environmental, Experimental, Expressionistic, Figurative, Icongraphic/Iconoclastic, Illustrative, Narrative/Historical, Non-Objective, Portraiture, Representational, Site-Specific, Social Commentary, Still Life
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
I like to paint big. Murals. i believe there is more to offer artistically when the work is assessable and can be viewed by all. I do have a studio practice and my belief is that art is a language for all. I speak my experience as a brown man in America right now. With my murals i hope to put the language out there in the hopes that others see it and recognize that we are talking. I am first generation, native american as well as father and shopper of HEB on Fredericksburg. The goal is to talk from a place that is authentic and genuinely me while also showing that were are the same at minimum as much as we are different. I believe if we can meet at that space a lot of what ails us all can be treated there. My hope is to do that with my art. I'm the crescendo of every one of my ancestors before me who were stewards of this land and labored to leave a better place then they came into. Like them i strive to do the same with what i have.
