Gregg Chadwick Heavy Mex (Sergio Arau) 12"x12" oil on panel 2018 private collection Los Angeles (Exhibited and Sold at The Other Art Fair , Los Angeles 2018) With his music, words and images, Sergio Arau has inspired me to create a series of paintings that feature him as the main character in my painted movies. Rock Star, actor, director, screenwriter, and artist Sergio Arau has often performed while wearing gear honoring Mexico's most famous wrestling star El Santo (The Man In the Silver Mask). Known as lucha libre, Mexican wrestlers such as El Santo are defenders of the poor and vulnerable. By taking on the persona of the Luchador (wrestler), Josh Kun writes in Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America , Sergio Arau and his bands have mixed "the traditional with the contemporary, the rural with the urban, the American with the Mexican, the charro with the rockero." My painting Heavy Mex (Sergio Arau) carries Sergio Arau into a Los Angeles rock clu...
