Photo: Meridel Rubenstein. The Medina Family, Bad Company, ’68 Chevy Impala, Chimayó, New Mexico. 1980. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist. © Meridel Rubenstein.

Photo: Meridel Rubenstein. The Medina Family, Bad Company, ’68 Chevy Impala, Chimayó, New Mexico. 1980. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist. © Meridel Rubenstein.

Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales has declared 2016 “Lowrider Summer” with Sunday, May 22 the first official Lowrider Day, kicking off a series of exhibitions and events citywide including Con Cariño: Artists Inspired by Lowriders, on view at the New Mexico Museum of Art, now through October 10, 2016.

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Featuring more than fifty works from the 1970s to the present, Con Cariño features photographs, paintings, sculptures, and videos from contemporary New Mexico artists including Lawrence Baca and Ron Rodriguez, Justin Favela, El Moisés, Meridel Rubenstein, Rose B. Simpson, Luis Tapia, and Don Usner, among others.

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The beauty of the lowrider lies in the love for the automobile and the ability to customize it to become the ultimate personal driving experience. The first lowriders appeared in Los Angeles during the 1940s and ‘50s, as post-war prosperity swept through Los Angeles, finding itself in pockets of Mexican-American neighborhoods. The kids had style, and they had finesse. And they were going to cruise as low and slow as they could get.
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