Alejandro Diaz, El Burrito, 2025, Signed and dated on reverse, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in, 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Texas native Alejandro Díaz developed an artistic practice over thirty-five years grounded in the bicultural and visual mix of South Texas and Mexico, with formative ties to Mexico City in the early 1990s. He is known for multi-media work: cardboard signs, neon, sculpture, furniture, tapestries, ceramics, paintings, and installations. Early in his career, he was best known for witty, text-based cardboard signs and their subsequent neon versions, which use humor to address class, race, border politics, tourism, and the art market.
