Opening May 29 at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, is Santo Lowride: Norteño Car Culture and the Santo Tradition, a new exhibition that focuses on the lowrider culture in Northern New Mexico.
Rose B. Simpson (San Ildefonso), Maria, 2013, 1985 El Camino. Photograph by Kate Russell. Courtesy of the artists.
“One thing that was really fun to research and explore was the exhibition’s scope within Northern New Mexico,” says curator Nicole Dial-Kay. “People come to a lowrider show with the assumption that it is all rooted in a Chicano-Latino movement, but in Northern New Mexico it is very multicultural. And the exhibition has space for everyone. The material we have goes all the way back to pre-Columbian, Aztec and Mayan traditions, Hispano-Latino traditions and Indigenous.”
The exhibition, which continues through October 10, will take up the entire ground floor of the museum. Material on view includes lowrider car hoods, trunks, wheel wells, upholstery, bikes and motorcycles, photographs and videography, all of which will be on view alongside 19th- and 20th-century Santos and contemporary devotional art.
Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Coyote Tales No. 1, 2017, limited edition archival fine art photograph, ed. of 5, 37 x 37”. Printed by the artist on Legacy Platine Papers. Courtesy of the artist.
Two Native American artists with works in the show include photographer Cara Romero, who has photographed lowriders in some of her work, and Rose B. Simpson, who created Maria, a custom 1985 El Camino painted in the style of a Maria Martinez blackware pot. While the whole car won’t fit in the museum, Simpson is sending a duplicate hood to be shown in the exhibition.
For more information about the show, visit www.harwoodmuseum.org.
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