Vaquero

Texas-based Luis Jiménez is known for his cartoonish public sculptures, which parody traditional European equestrian monuments. In this related work, Jiménez replaces a stately king with an exagerratedly wild Mexican I>vaquero, a term derived from a 17th-century Spanish word for a horse-mounted livestock herder, similar to the American cowboy. The print’s glittery surface evokes the sheen of Jiménez’s polychromed fiberglass sculptures.