AMADO PENA, JR.

Painting of an Indigenous woman with gray hair tied into a ponytail. She is sitting on a patterend shape holding a pot painted with a road runner in and other traditional shapes. Her shirt is beautiful purple with a large turquoise pendant and her boots and skirt are a stark black and white pattern that contrasts.

This painting is from Pena’s Mestizo Series and is called ‘Mi Tesoro.’ It is an acrylic gouache on canvas painting of an Indigenous woman with gray hair tied into a ponytail. She is sitting on a patterend shape holding a pot painted with a road runner in and other traditional shapes. Her shirt is beautiful purple with a large turquoise pendant and her boots and skirt are a stark black and white pattern that contrasts brilliantly. 2022