Rudy Herrera: The boy

January 12 - April 30,2023

From Artpace: "On view in our Main Space gallery is The boy, featuring new work by local artist Rudy Herrera. Herrera often works on large-scale, colorful artworks that are intended to reach a broad audience - in particular to reach his peers who don’t naturally gravitate to art museums, galleries, and other curated spaces. Utilizing spray paint and acrylic, Herrera communicates with his first and most important audience, his contemporaries, and peers.   In The boy, Herrera explores his ancestry and, more specifically, the men in his family. Utilizing laminated aluminum, foam, wood, and acrylic, the artist has created a scene that depicts multiple generations of men in his family. One of the displays includes a man pushing a shopping cart with a boy sitting inside it. The man pushing the cart is Rudy in the present, while the boy in the cart represents Rudy’s son and all the men that raised him. The entire scene is a story about the artist’s family, and although he doesn’t know much about the men that came before him, he sees himself as an accumulation of all of them. "

Reception: January 12, 2023 | 6-8 pm

Artpace 445 North Main Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78205
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