During the lecture, Valdez also pointed out a subtle detail in “Just a Dream (In America)”: a small tattoo on the boxer’s ...

Vincent Valdez’s Siete Dias/Seven Days is a 2022 series comprised of silkscreened panels depicting individuals who vanished in Central and South America and seven spelling out the days of the week in ...

Chevy headlights light the scene, throwing it into dramatic chiaroscuro. Erect white hoods crease and wrinkle over their wearers’ heads and wisps of smoke and dust stain the satiny black sky. What we ...

Valdez doesn't just probe America's past; he also brings it uncomfortably close to the present. Just a Dream… includes the four-panel painting "The City I," which depicts 14 Klansmen peering into the ...

NORTH ADAMS — There's much to celebrate this weekend at Mass MoCA. The museum is culminating its yearlong 25th anniversary celebration with a full slate of events over Memorial Day weekend, including ...

Vincent Valdez’ drawing, “III: Main Event,” from his Stations show at the McNay, demonstrates how the series explores male identity, objectification, commercialization, and martyrdom through a ...

Boxing is a brutal sport. Holyfield lost a chunk of ear, Sugar Ray Leonard suffered brain damage, and, on average, five boxers die each year in the ring. It’s no wonder artist Vincent Valdez chose to ...

Years ago, as artist Vincent Valdez was working to get his fledgling career going, he spent a lot of time at the home of Joe Diaz, his first collector, carefully studying the works on display there.

How did we get to this place? America, land of the free and home of the brave, has become unrecognizable to a mass majority of its inhabitants, as citizens and non-citizens are dragged from their ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas (ACLU of Texas) named Houston-based painter Vincent Valdez and Austin-based author KB Brookins recipients of its artists-in-residence program for 2025–26.