Sculpture on the Puerto Vallarta Boardwalk
One of my favorite sculptures on the boardwalk (Malecon) is the “Vallarta Dancers” sculpture created by Jim Demetro. Banderas News has a great article which explains the story behind the “Vallarta Dancers” sculpture and how it was produced.
The sculpture is located near the Starbucks on the main plaza. From the [...]
Enmarcados GMC, better known to most as Memo’s Frame Shop, is one of the businesses we patronize. And as I have mentioned in many other posts, I like to promote local businesses which I feel are a cut above. I don’t do it because their is anything in it for me. I do it because [...]
Friday, November 23rd, Art by Design and Glass Galeria EM in Marina Vallarta are having their season opening reception. On the first weekend after Thanksgiving, the two galleries host a great cocktail reception attended by a couple of hundred people. We have gone every year for the past four years and I expect this year [...]
Art by Chase in Puerto Vallarta
If you were wondering who painted the murals that popped up around town, I have the answer. They were done by a Belgian artist named Chase who lives in L.A. Below the pictures is an email forwarded to me in which Chase describes how the mural project came to be [...]
Ian Sanchez is a good friend and my favorite artist currently working in Puerto Vallarta. His talents are numerous. He is a painter, a published illustrator, filmaker, musician, and certified paramedic. He describes his artistic style as whimsical naïve and takes much of his influence from the town of Tepoztlan, Morelos where he grew up. [...]