Here come the brothers! And it’s July 4th weekend. Fireworks appropo!

As the LA Times wrote in a 2008 review: Mixed media doesn’t get any more mixed than in the outrageously smart, irresistibly ugly, gloriously provocative work of Einar and Jamex de la Torre.

For their residency, Einar and Jamex plan to pick up where they left off when they were last working in the Hot Shop in 2005. If taken literally that could mean Taco Time and Cactus with Spiked Heart.

Taco Time

Cactus with Spiked Heart

Mexican born artist-collaborator brothers, Einar and Jamex de la Torre came to the US in the early seventies, going from an all boys catholic school in the Guadalajara of the late sixties to (co-ed) public schools in a Southern California surf town. In the eighties, while studying sculpture and glass blowing in art school, they began a flame-worked glass figure business that ran until their art careers took over. Artistic collaboration started in the late eighties, from small mix media works, to Biennial installations in the late Nineties and later branching into Public Art. Currently, the brothers live and work on both sides of the San Diego-Baja California border, a binational life style that very much informs their work. Working and exhibiting extensively nationally as well as internationally, their work can be found in galleries, museum collections, museum catalogs, as well as in various public art installations. For more information, please visit their website: www.delatorrebros.com

See you in the Hot Shop.

Liz Stockhausen Cepanec