By Susan Froyd – WestWord.com – Photo: Wes Magyar.
Photo: Carlos Frésquez, “The Obsidian Ranfla Series #1,” spray paint, screen print and oil paint on mdf panel, 1999.
Denver native and artist Carlos Frésquez’s people came from the centuries-old Mexican borderland culture of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, but he experienced his roots from a city boy’s cross-cultural perspective. It’s an intrinsic part of who he is as a human and as an artist: community-driven, rooted in religion and folklore, yet radically political and often satirical.
