Los Vendedores de Tijuana

San Diego-based artist Roberto Salas created an installation titled "Los vendedores de Tijuana" for inSITE94. Drawing from his own experience of selling a variety of things as a child, Salas made a selection of the traditional items one would find being offered while waiting to cross the border from Mexico to the United states. Anyone having been through that experience will know that vendors roam the rows of cars with all their wares draped across their bodies, stacked on their heads, or filling their arms. Salas chose to use the seemingly endless plaster cast figures made to appeal to American tourists, such as Mickey Mouse, skulls, hamburgers, Madonnas, Ninja Turtles, and so on, to create what he referred to as "monumental shamans of kitsch." --inSITE94

• 1994

• Salas, Roberto (American muralist and sculptor, born 1955)

• InSITE94

• Nemour, Leslie (American painter and curator)

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 328)

Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College

paper (fiber product); plaster; paint; found objects

• InSITE94

• Mexican-American border region
• Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)

• Drawings (visual works)
• Installations (visual works)
• Sculpture (visual work)

• Border art
• Kitsch
• Paintings (visual works)
• Portraits
• Street vendors
• Totem poles

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715609

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Drawings and Watercolors

Paintings

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Unknown (US)

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2020-10-27