A walk through the Dallas Museum of Art’s Concourse transforms into a lowrider cruise night on the streets of East Los Angeles with Guadalupe Rosales’ immersive mural, Drifting on a Memory. The mural is on view through July 10.
The mural, with its disco ball and vibrant hues of red, orange, yellow and hot pink resembling a brilliant Texas sunset, is evocative of the cars’ intricate customizations. “At first, it was really challenging because we wanted to do everything traditional which is airbrushing materials Lokey would use on a car,” Rosales said. “So, we really had to think of a new way to execute this project but also use materials that are water-based house paints.
Rosales also incorporates two lightbox sculptures featuring her photography as well as photographs of Calderon’s family. “I wanted to bring in the idea of the multi-exposure photography and memory and time,” Rosales said. “I don’t see memory and time as linear, but something that comes as a constellation, in pockets.”
Rosales recounts the criminalization of cruising with police putting up “no cruising” signs on streets where lowriders were known to gather. That criminalization is why Rosales wants to create these cultural archives. “I’m also interested in celebrating,” Rosales said.
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