This is a unique hand pulled screen print created in the studio of Cruz Ortiz, located in an old train station in South San Antonio which is in the vicinity of two Spanish Colonial Missions and the San Antonio River. The process included making multiple positives to create the stencils using black gouache and tracing paper, a technique Cruz learned in the early 1990’s from David Mercado Gonzales, a Vanguard Chicano Printmaster from the Westside of San Antonio. “COWBOY CUMBIA” was made using 4 different screen printing stencils, each printed one layer at a time. This limited print run of 40 prints are all signed and numbered. This print highlights some of the bold graphic hand-made mark makings that Cruz is known for, using strong angled shapes, high contrast colors, and Tex-Mex spanglish. The subject matter revolves the voices within the musica de la frontera like cumbias and corridos that tell of love and tradgedy . Many of Cruz’s artworks are known to be based on country, punk and mexicano music genres to build an ongoing romantic narrative of his experience living in Texas. The print is 18”x24” on archival paper