Michael Menchaca, Vignettes of San Antonio, 2018, Oil paint and mixed media on yellow French paper, 19 x 25in, 48.3 x 63.5 cm
"Some cities have artists who become sort of visual ambassadors for the aesthetic and culture. When I imagine New York in the 1980s, all the graffiti in my mind is Basquiat pieces. In San Antonio, we’re quite lucky to have dazzling, insouciant artists like Michael Menchaca. In the ecstatic current show at Ruiz-Healy in San Antonio, Menchaca took the howling, void-like desolation he felt from the election of Donald Trump and turned to creativity as a way of catharsis."
-Niel Fauerso
