Artists

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. …

Manuel Acosta

1921-1989

Manuel Acosta was born in Mexico in 1921and his family moved to El Paso when he was an infant…

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.

Teresa Fernandez

Mixed Media Artist

Teresa Fernandez has been interested in art from early childhood. Fascinated with color, texture & innovation…

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.

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.…

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…

Adelaide Marcus

In August of 2005 Adelaide moved to San Diego to create the Middle Eastern Dance Company, The Shimmy Sisters, with her sister Leilainia.…

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…

Mauricio Mora

Mauricio Mora was born in 1968, in Cd. Juarez, Chih., Mexico. He began sketching at a very early age…

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…

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…

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…