Artist,John Medina discusses his work in Corridos Visuales LatinX Art Exhibition.

Corridos Visuales presents the work of 10 LatinX artist printmakers with Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Latin American roots, curated by FAU printmaking professor Joseph Velasquez. Before teaching at FAU, Velasquez operated a mobile printmaking project, traveling more than 200,000 miles across the United States, meeting numerous LatinX printmakers. More recent travels to Mexico and the Caribbean have introduced Velasquez to many more LatinX artists and their printmaking practices. Works in this exhibition share common passions and expressions made tangible through diverse, innovative use of printmaking processes, wide-ranging narrative voices, and bountiful Latin identity expressions.
The artists present diverse interests, struggles, and themes relevant to LatinX artists. Including but not limited to social and political themes and the importance of indigenous peoples and cultures in the Americas. Most of the artists create figurative works that blend representational realism with mythic and spiritual influences. Many of the artists push printmaking beyond the traditions of ink on paper through large-scale use of unconventional materials and conceptual and humorous strategies that critique commercial media showing us the possibilities of worlds beyond our mundane realities.
John Medina was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, the hometown of Whataburger and Selena. He received his BFA from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and his MFA from Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois. He currently lives and works in San Antonio as an artist, designer, and educator.
Medina often incorporates various media into his artwork but has an affinity for hot glue, relief printing, and digital media. His artwork is influenced by Mexican folklore, Texas history, urban legends, cryptozoology, pop culture, religious iconography, cultural traditions, science fiction, comic books, breakfast tacos, and drunken story-telling.
In this video, Medina discusses his works and their meanings.
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