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Luis
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Roots of Ceremony, 2025, 40x30", acrylic, canvas 🪶
#artist #painter #painting #art
#surrealism #visionaryart #narrativeart #culture #tradition #ceremony #honor #respect #land #nature #cycles #legacy #persist #resist
Roots of Ceremony The roots of a tree are the anchors to its life. They burrow, spread into the Earth. There is a reciprocal nature with the land and the tree. The Earth feeds the nutrients to the soil, helping the tree grow. In turn, the tree spreads it's canopy provides shelter and organic material to feed the land. Our ceremonies are like the roots that keep us grounded, connected to the Earth, and each other. We spread our canopy, giving shelter, we feed, share our knowledge, wisdom, beliefs, ideas, hopes, and dreams to each generation. Each generation, in turn, continuously continues the legacy of our ancestors, thus ensuring our connection. Each of us is a tree with roots of Ceremony, remember.
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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'Reflecting Pool' 2019, 20x 16" acrylic, canvas 🏵🕯🙏🏿🪶🦋
#painter, #painting #art, #latinxartist, #visionaryart, #contemporaryart, #portrait, #narrativeart #diadelosmuertos #remembrance #ancestors #family #friends #cultural #heritage #tradition, #hope, #resilience, #resistance, #resist, #exist
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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'Ancestral Spirit', 2024, 12 x 9", acrylic, wood panel🏵🦋

#painter, #art, #painting #latinxartist, #visionaryart, #contemporaryart, #portrait, #narrativeart #exhibition, #diadelosmuertos #mictlan #cultural #heritage #tradition, #hope, #resilience, #resistance, #resist, #exist
October 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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'Nagual', 2021, 43x36, assemblage, acrylic, wood panels, wood, canvas🦋✨️

#painter, #art, #latinxartist, #visionaryart, #contemporaryart, #portrait, #narrativeart # surrealism #assemblage #cultural #heritage #tradition, #hope, #resilience, #resistance, #resist, #exist
'Nagual', 2021, 43x36, assemblage, acrylic, wood panels, wood, canvas A nagual is folklore from Mesoamerican and Toltec traditions referring to a person who can access spiritual power through transformation, often associated with shapeshifting into an animal form. It represents a dual aspect of human existence, balancing the known self (tonal) with the deeper, limitless self (nagual) for personal and spiritual growth. 🦋✨️🪶
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Hello Everyone ✨️
Tomorrow is the reception for my solo exhibition, 'Seeds of Tradition', @richmondartcenter, from 1-3, 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond. I hope to see you there. Thank you for the support. Take care.🪶🙏🏿
September 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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'Pledge Allegiance' 2025, 20x16", acrylic, canvas
'Pledge Allegiance' 2025, 20x16", acrylic, canvas Hello, everyone. So every year around my birthday (Sept. 29th) I create a self portrait, to represent aspects of my journey, personal, spiritual, and artistic. This year, instead, I decided to create a portrait of the grim reality we have been experiencing in the country. I don't think I need to say anything or explain what the piece means. I want to thank those who continue to resist and stand up for those who can't. I hold hope in my heart. Much love and strength to all of you.🦋 #painter, #painting #art, #latinxartist, #visionaryart, #contemporaryart, #artistsoninstagram, #portrait, #narrativeart, #politicalart, #immigrant, #experience, #dismantling, #rascism, #socialjustice, #hope, #resilience, #resistance, #resist
September 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Coming up
My Solo Exhibition, Seeds of Tradition', at Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA.
Opens 9/24
Reception 9/27 , 1-3
Artist Talk 10/11, 12:30🦋🙏🏿✨️
#painter #painting #art #latinxartist #visionaryart #contemporaryart #artist #fineart #narrativeart #soloexhibition #artexhibition #culture #tradition
September 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Dropped off my work for my upcoming
Solo Exhibition 'Seeds of Tradition' @richmondartcenter
I am very excited and honored, thank you!
Opens 9/24
Reception 9/27 , 1-3
Artist Talk 10/11, 12:30🦋✨️
#painter, #art, #latinxartist #visionaryart #portrait #narrativeart #soloexhibition #artexhibition
September 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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The ledge, 2020, 18x10" acrylic, canvas panels
Part of the homelessness series 🦋🙏🏿
#painter, #painting #art, #latinxartist, #visionaryart, #contemporaryart, #portrait, #narrativeart #politicalart #socialjustice #equity #homelessness #safetynet #tradition, #hope, #resilience #resistance #resist
September 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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'Broken Down', 2020, 14x14", acrylic, canvas
Part of the homelessness series 🦋
#painter #painting #art #artist #latinxartist #visionaryart #contemporaryart #artistsoninstagram #portrait #narrativeart ##politicalart #equity #socialjustice #homelessness #hope #resilience #resistance #resist
August 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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'Insurmountable', 2020, 48x36, acrylic, wood panel
Part of the homelessness series 🦋
#painter #painting #art #artist #latinxartist #visionaryart #contemporaryart #artistsoninstagram #portrait #narrativeart ##politicalart #equity #socialjustice #homelessness #hope #resilience #resistance #resist
‘Insurmountable’ is an expression of how homeless individuals may see their situation while at the same time showing how society feels about the situation. Each side's sensibilities are viewing the problem as Insurmountable. Homeless individuals spend most of their time outside, in the harsh elements. To visually exhibit this brutal way of surviving, I decided to meld an individual into the Matterhorn. I chose the Matterhorn because it is a well-known mountain and it is in Switzerland, which some would say is the Banking Nation of the Wealthy. The yellow bowl he is holding represents a sense of hope of want. To amplify this sensibility, I inserted a wish bone inside the bowl. In the distance, on the side of the mountain is a City Skyline, in which silhouetted individuals appear, slowly waiting in a soup line. The work was made right before the Pandemic took grip of the country. The Pandemic and other current social catastrophes have further exposed inequities and a lack of any social safety net, putting more individuals at risk of falling into this insurmountable problem.
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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'Weathered', 2020
Objects like people carry the scars of time. Some are more weathered than others..
Part of a homelessness series🙏🏿
#painter #painting #art #artist #latinxartist #visionaryart #contemporaryart #portrait, #narrativeart #equity #society #homelessness #struggle #hope #resilience #resist
August 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Sin Nombre (nameless), 9x12, acrylic, canvas 🦋
#painter, #art, #artist #latinxartist, #visionaryart, #contemporaryart, #politicalart, #portrait, #narrativeart #immigrant #dignity #humanrights #hope #resilience #resistance #resist #abolishice
August 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Older than America, 2024, 14x14, acrylic, canvas🦋

#painter, #art, #artist #latinxartist, #visionaryart, #contemporaryart, #surreal #narrativeart #culture #cultural #heritage #tradition, #hope, #resilience, #resistance
August 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Dahlia, 2024, 14x14", acrylic wood panel 🦋

#painter, #art, #latinxartist, #visionaryart, #contemporaryart, #surrealism, #portrait, #narrativeart #culture, #cultural #heritage #tradition, #hope, #resilience, #resistance
August 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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'Shadowcatcher' 2018, 40x36" acrylic, canvas
#painter #art #latinxartist #visionaryart #contemporaryart ##abstractart
August 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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"Shepherd", 24 x 20 ", acrylic, canvas🦋
#painter, #art, #latinxartist, #visionaryart, #contemporaryart, #narrativeart, #portrait, #fineart
#surreal, #portrait, #culture #resist
August 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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New Work, thank you for the support.💙

Indigo, 2025, 40x36", acrylic, canvas 🦋

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Indigo A resilient blue, you do not fade in time. The sun rose riding in like a serpent in the sky. The traveler set ablaze the path, giving light to the many cultures that grew and migrated out from the land of Aztlan. Divine ancestor, sacred being, beautiful sister adorned in indigo, carrying the fabric and color of life, your gift of maize we recieved. We grew like the milpa fields that nourished us, each kernel blessed by her presence. Loving aura, energy, radiant, bringer of hope, change, birth, death, your roots grew deep into Earth, into the brown dirt. Your presence sits there patiently. Some may forget these truths, but the brown dirt that caresses us, colors our skin, reminds us. It tells us to be the resilient blue. Blue of sacrifice, blue of strength, blue of ceremony, Indigo that adorns our walls, our art, our bodies, our spirit. A resilient blue, like it, we do not fade in time. Resist/Persist
July 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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'Blue Bird', 2022, 16 x 20, acrylic, canvas.
#painting #painter #art #latinxartist #visionaryart #contemporaryart #abstractart #fineart
May 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Hola🐝
I wanted to share a new piece I just completed.
Thank you for the support 🦋

'Drift', 2025, 40x30", acrylic, canvas 🪻

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Drift Yellow brilliance of hope, at dawns early light. The land mourns. Huddled mountains, standing sentinels. Bear perpetual witness. Mists of blues and lavender arms hug, caressing the veil that shrouds their purple majesty. Tides of time that ebb and flow. Emerald, Aqua blue, crystalline dreams. Culture bearer remains afloat. You, the life (boat), bouyed, feeling a sense of direction. Whisper to the wind your oral history. It will carry the kernels of tradition. Paddle of aspiration keeps the faith. Wisdom prevails, and tomorrow always comes. Just stay afloat.
May 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Iris, 2023, 20x16, acrylic canvas 🦋 🌷
#painter, #art, #latinxartist #visionaryart #portrait #contemporaryart #art #fineart #personalnarrative #flowers #iris #culture #bloom
#mythology
The mythology of the Iris flower dates to Ancient Greece when the goddess Iris, who personified the rainbow (the Greek word for iris), acted as the link between heaven and earth The piece is a representation of this mythological goddess, painted in a way that reflects my cultural heritage. In Spanish, the word Arcoiris means rainbow. The young girl in the piece is Panchimalco, celebrating the flowers and palm festival. Panchimalco are descendants of Pipil Indians fleeing the Spanish takeover of San Salvador during the 16th century, into areas originally inhabited by Mayan and Nahuatl peoples. Panchimalco is known for its indigenous population and its festivities.
April 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Beauty blooming 🌷
#spring #bloom #iris
#beauty #nature #flowers #plants
April 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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'Keepers of the Fire'
2019, 40x30x2, acrylic canvas 🦋

#painting #painter, #art, #latinxartist, #fineart #contemporaryart #portrait #visionaryart #indigenous #feminism #strength #leadership #respect #resistance #resist
'Keepers of the Fire' 2019, 40x30x2, acrylic canvas🦋 Indigenous women activists have stood up to Patriarchal colonization and have demonstrated bravery throughout history. They have shown spiritual strength, discipline, and organizational skills. They have stood up for indigenous rights, anti-colonial resistance, the environment, and cultural traditions. The piece “Keepers of the Fire” depicts a few of these women: Toypurina was a Tongva warrior who resisted, fought the Spanish colonization, and evaded capture for many years Rigoberta Menchu a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has dedicated her life to promoting Indigenous rights internationally Truganini, a Tasmanian indigenous woman, is a strong, defiant woman who stood up against the colonization of her homeland. She is a symbol of the survival of the Tasmanian Aboriginals.
March 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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🦋🙏🏿🙌🏿
March 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Happy Spring Equinox
Everyone
Our world is in turmoil. We are in trouble. Find solace in the Natural World.🙏🏿🌱🌺🌻🌼🌷🏵🪻🌹🦋
'Primavera' 10x10 acrylic wood panel
#painting, #painter, #art, #latinxartist, #contemporaryart, #portrait, #respect , #naturalworld, #nature #peace, #energy #equinox
March 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM