El Moises

Growing up in the Southwest, the soon-to-be artist named Moises would gain a love for the Chicano cultural and scene at an early age. It helped a lot that his father used to work on cars and paint lowriders too. That in itself would give him the opportunity to look at lowriders up close and hands on. “I was influenced largely by the paint and pinstriping schemes that adorned lowriders. That influenced the ‘folk art’ part of me, as some of the first type of pinstriping I did was applied to many shapes of pottery I had made, and if you notice the striping on the cars that I painted, it resembles the style and looks I used on my pottery.”

Born in Baja, California, the Albuquerque artist grew up in Yuma, Arizona and Phoenix before moving to New Mexico. He is completely self-taught. Today he’s known as a modern-day artist bringing the essence of urban culture and barrio flavor to mainstream fine art, steeped in the visual traditions of Mexican-American pop culture and lowrider cars.