Vincent Ramos’s collages show Jewish and Italian American musicians who posed as Mexicans (Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass) and Latin-American stars such as Anthony Quinn (born in Mexico to a Mexican mother and a first-generation Irish-Mexican father, who impersonated Italians, Greeks, Arabs, Frenchmen, Jews and the Hunchback of Notre-Dame), Raquel Welch whose father was an aeronautical engineer from La Paz Bolivia, Linda Ronstadt, whose father was of Mexican descent and Joan Baez whose father was born in Puebla Mexico. Everything omnipresent, in an everchanging Chicano rasquachismo jigsaw-puzzle with damaged, faded, reversed and missing pieces. (Hans Theys)

“Maybe just think of it as an experimental audio book from a drug store paperback rack, picked up somewhere in Orson Welles’s ‘Touch of Evil’ border town. Or possibly the lost script for a gritty neo noir film meets ABC after school special starring a pre ‘Falcon Crest’ Ana Alicia, with a ‘Rise’ era Herb Alpert soundtrack.” (Vincent Ramos)