“Art is responding to life and to the things that we're going through, and fundamental questions that go to — where have we been, where are we at, where are we going?” LatinoVoicesWTTW
Standing outside of Su Familia Real Estate in West Elsdon, where he recently completed a mural on each face of the building, artist“Art is responding to life,” he said. “To the things that we're going through, and fundamental questions that go to — where have we been, where are we at, where are we going?”Su Familia’s owners commissioned the mural on the occasion of their 25th anniversary.
“The title of it is ‘Hope: the Journey Together Towards the Future’ and it features a couple of different elements that are central to what I think is a shared goal of home. When you establish home, whether it’s your apartment or you buy your first home that you’re thinking about your kids, you’re thinking about your family, you’re thinking about your community, your neighbors, the city,” he said.
Serrano is one of Chicago’s most prolific artists – this year alone he completed four towering murals all over the city. When he’s not painting, he’s an arts educator and a karaoke host He hearkens back to Mexican history and post-revolution muralism as a way to develop national identity when reflecting on what it has meant for public art to make a home in Chicago.“I was blessed to grow up in Pilsen that has this amazing rich cultural history of public art, all of these giants that paved the way for this ongoing conversation that's happening about Mexican American identity as a whole,” he said.
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