“Undulating fabrics, richly embroidered scarlet sashes, and woven rebozos seem to leap from a wall. Somehow both instantly recognizable and subtly abstract, these images offer a lens through which we witness a plenitude of forms drawn from the center of the Mexican soul. But there is a profound version of trompe l’oeil at work in the works of this contemporary Mexican master. Taking the vernacular objetos tipicos of Mexican popular culture, especially from his home of Guadalajara, Vargas uses incomparable techniques across a host of media to transmute them into an inventory of timeless implements, a glimpse into a world that is simultaneously sacred and ordinary, deeply Mexican, but pre-eminently human in its sources. You think you’re seeing something you’ve seen a thousand times before. Instead, you’re invited into a space of epic imagination, the Inframundo of the Mexican imaginary.” John Phillip Santos.