Alejandro Díaz, A Latino Texan-New Yorker Exhibits at Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery

By Dr. Ricardo Romo

 

Alejando Diaz’s work is widely collected and exhibited, held by institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Fundación Colección Jumex, Mexico City; RISD Museum of Art; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; and McNay Art Museum, San Antonio. Grounded in wit and cultural observation, Diaz’s multimedia work—spanning cardboard signs, neon, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, tapestries, paintings, and installations—uses humor and vernacular aesthetics to probe issues of class, race, border politics, tourism, and the art market.