RUDY HERRERA

Rudy Marco Herrera was born in El Paso Texas in 1985. He left El Paso at the age of 9. His  family is of Native decent . He spent his youth in El Paso and the surrounding area. He embrace San Anto as his new home. Rudy found a family as well as later created one. Later he would leave to Houston for school, but came back  wanting to be one of the many success stories that inspired him. All the while staying a practicing artist even when it was not lucrative or sustainable financially. Today Rudy still strives to push himself in his artistic endeavors and hopes to make the city he loves proud.

SAD DOG

Rudy Herrera creates large colorful imagery. Often murals but sometimes  large canvases.  Using this medium to speak to an audience who may not gravitate to the galleries as he himself has a natural aversion to such curated paces. He speaks to those he views as his peers and contemporaries and makes  them his first and most important audience. He uses spray paint and acrylic but has also resorted to use anything that will leave large marks.  He speaks from a transitional generation  in a brown voice.  One that is just as far away from his Native culture as it is close to what may be considered American culture.  With an honesty and  confusion Rudy works to push or instigate  a dialogue  to make him and others feel less foreign to each other.