Hal Marcus
Hal Marcus was born in 1951 in El Paso, Texas. His interest in painting began in high school and developed into a life-long passion of the arts. His sense of color originated from the influences of Mexico where as a child he accompanied his grandmother on weekly visits to the Juarez market.
Manuel Acosta
Manuel Acosta was born in Mexico in 1921and his family moved to El Paso when he was an infant. He lived in El Paso his entire life until his untimely death in 1989. Manuel studied under Octavia Maggoffin Glassgow at Bowie High, designed sets and eventually went to Texas College of Mines (later UTEP) where he studied with sculptor Urbici Soler.
Tom Lea
Tom Lea was born on July 11, 1907, in EI Paso, Texas, across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. His father, a lawyer, served a term as mayor from 1915 to 1917 during the Mexican Revolution. Lea’s high school teacher encouraged him to attend art school, and at age seventeen he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Willibald de Cabrera
Born in 1968 in the small town of Puerta de Cabrera in the state of Durango, Mexico, Willibald began drawing when he was six years old. From the beginning, he developed a love for figurative work, becoming an obsession at this tender age. While attending secondary school, de Cabrera was introduced to painting by Efrain Rincon Lira, maestro.
Teresa Fernandez
Teresa Fernandez has been interested in art from early childhood. Fascinated with color, texture & innovation, Teresa began her artistic journey with a successful career in fashion design. In 1992 Fernandez began painting.
Adelaide Marcus
Adelaide Marcus explores the full spectrum of expression. As a reflection of her eccentric lifestyle and background in psychology, her art exposes the power of the mind, the allure of the goddess, and the delicate dance of duality. Adelaide loves to blend taboo subjects with the feeling of purity, often merging loaded concepts with light-hearted feels & whimsical color.
Mauricio Mora
Mauricio Mora was born in 1968, in Cd. Juarez, Chih., Mexico. He began sketching at a very early age. After having studied graphic design and business administration at the University of Texas, he decided to follow his natural talent and began painting at the age of 24.
Daniel Padilla
Daniel Padilla was born in 1972 in El Paso Texas, but was raised in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico for his first five years. While attending school he was encouraged to paint and at times he was inspired and supervised by his father who was a fine artist until his death in 1994.
Bill Rakocy
Bill Rakocy was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1924. He went on to receive his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute.
Krystyna Renata Robbins
Scottish born of Polish parents, raised in London and one of the last Ellis Island immigrants to the United States, Krystyna received her degree in Commercial Art from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
Francisco Romero
Francisco Romero was born in 1958 in Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. At the early age of 6, he started drawing from cartoon magazines that were on display in the newspaper stands in the streets of Juarez. Painting and music was an integral part of his everyday life throughout his school years.
Diego “Robot” Martinez
Born and raised on the El Paso/Juarez border, I was always around bright colors, and influenced by the beauty of traditional Mexican culture. I have always been around creative minds. I’ve learned from and have been inspired by the many artists and musicians in my family. The universal language of creativity has always been a part of my life.
Cecil B. Lee
I first began painting in my mid-teens having been inspired by my sister’s paintings. The greatest influences in which I still draw off of are the early abstractionists, Kandinsky, Picasso, Van Gough, Miro, Jackson Pollack being a few. However the entire world of abstractionism captured me ever since I knew there was such an art form.
John Warden MacKenzie
John Warden MacKenzie begins his paintings by directly sketching onto canvas with pencil. He allows his hand to move freely as his imagination unfolds. Sometimes, these initial pencil drawings are still visible beneath the paint he later applies.