Alejandro Diaz American, b. 1963

Since the beginning of his artistic career, Alejandro Diaz has explored contemporary consumer culture by utilizing everyday materials. Through mixed-media elements such as neon signage, cardboard, buttons, and iconographical symbols of South Texas and Mexico, Diaz's work challenges the traditional boundaries between "high" and "low" art. Diaz’s background enables the artist to comment on socio-political issues in an ironically humorous way, drawing from principles of rasquachismo and Mexican American do-it-yourself culture.