observing san diego-tijuana urban life 
Most people think they are more creative in the morning. Well, this morning Tijuana tested the theory with its second “Creative Mornings” event. At 8 AM at the offices of the advertising agency Fotográfika in downtown Tijuana, the creative community of the city gathered for gourmet coffee, delicious fresh breads, […]
Tijuana va a participar en un movimento mundial. 7 de junio, 2014 ¡No faltes!
Tucked inside a parking lot off Calle Primera in Tijuana’s Zona Norte, a mural now covers what was once a blank wall. This past week, members of the graffiti crew HEM (Hecho en Mexico or “Made in Mexico”) marked a milestone together–twenty-four years of bombing the streets and alleys of […]
March 9, 2013 SATURDAY NIGHT 6-10 PM VISUAL Shop 3524 Adams Ave San Diego, CA 92116 With wheatpaste art & paintings by Tijuana artists: 1102, Panca, and Spel Teodora Craft beer by Francisco J. Garcia of Studio 2287, Tijuana The concept of my exhibition is to explore—through my photos— “that […]
Damn! Just wait until you see the amazing work these women painted on my wall!!! The graffiti collective Few and Far Women.com finished up their west coast tour yesterday at my house in Colonia Lindavista, Tijuana. The ten artists painted for one week making stops in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los […]
In Tijuana, urban art is everywhere, and artists find their most important contributions lie in the way their work can reactivate spaces that lie far beyond the official “front stage” of tidy commerce in the city. As the urban theorist Michel de Certeau argued in The Practice of Everyday Life, […]
This past week, on Monday, Dec 12, local Tijuana urban artist Alonso Delgadillo, who paints under the name of El Norteño, was awarded the Premio Estatal de la Juventud de Baja California 2011, giving an official stamp of approval to the life’s work and trajectory of this local artist whose most […]
In August, I was privileged to join Alfredo Libre Gutierrez in Ensenada to document a mural project at CEARTE, Ensenada Center for the Arts. Gutierrez was commissioned by the ICBC (Instituto Cultural de Baja California, Ensenada) to paint a mural. It was refreshing, he told me, to get an open commission and have control over […]
Here’s a terrific video with interviews with various artists who participated in the project Pantone Onírico in the Tijuana colonia of Camino Verde, headed by the group Reacciona Tijuana. Reacciona Tijuana explains the objective of the project: The project hopes to reaffirm and enrich the cognitive map of the residents […]
Another gorgeous mural from Camino Verde, painted by El Norteño (Alonso Delgadillo), a visual artist and professor at UABC-CITEC, the Center for Engineering and Technology at the University Autonoma of Baja California. Driving around Tijuana, you will see many works of street art by El Norteño in random out of the […]
