Mariachis on my Mind

The Works of Kathy Sosa
Kathy Sosa moved to San Antonio from Alabama as a child and immediately fell in love with the blended culture of the Texas-Mexico border region. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at St. Mary’s University, she spent years in advertising and political consulting. Kathy began her life as a painter during her late 40’s and embraced the artistic expressions of the Mestisaje culture. Her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Latino Center in Washington D.C. and regionally in Texas; it has also been featured on CNN and in various publications.

“Everything in my body of work is about the Mestizo culture that I live in, and I would like to bring to people’s attention to the very cool things about the blended culture in the Texas-Mexico border land… It’s a distinct culture of its own” ---Kathy Sosa

Found Objects Series
In this series, Kathy Sosa takes found objects and reproduces them then adding in her own marks.  The found object can begin with a tiny bit of novelty fabric, which is digitally enlarged many, many times and reproduced as a background to her hand painted portraits.

Kathy Sosa (American, b. 20^th Century)
Mariachis on my Mind, 2009
Archival pigment on watercolor paper with hand gilding
Signed, dated, inscribed with “Mariachis Found Objects Series, gilded” on mat l.l.
33½ x 24 inches