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World renowned El Paso artist Gaspar Enríquez, who grew up in the Segundo Barrio, has touched generations of disadvantaged youths and artists through his teaching and mentorship. His artwork, which

World renowned El Paso artist Gaspar Enríquez, who grew up in the Segundo Barrio, has touched generations of disadvantaged youths and artists through his teaching and mentorship. His artwork, which

The Art Car Museum’s reopened retrospective spotlights the deeply personal collages made by one half of Texas’s legendary art power couple.

After losing his dominant right hand from a Vietnam War injury, he began chronicling Mexican American culture with his left.

Treviño’s biographer reflects on the artist’s legacy.

Ruiz Healy opened her Olmos Park gallery in 2006 and expanded her scope with a New York City location in 2019.

Hickey will be remembered as on of the most influential art and cultural critics of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The visual art scene, however, lacked a center. Local artists were creating work that could compete in New York, but Texas galleries weren’t interested in showing contemporary art, and few buyers knew what to select to impress their friends. “It was just bluebonnet paintings,” remembers the artist Barry Buxkamper, who was an undergraduate student at UT when he first met Hickey. This was the void Hickey set out to fill.  The name “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” was a reference to a rathe...