Armendariz signing the Modern Prometheus Unbound (Remix) edition.
Richard Armendariz was born in El Paso, Texas, and is currently living and working in San Antonio, Texas. Being raised on the U.S.-Mexico border heavily influences his artistic, aesthetic, and conceptual ideas. Images that have cultural, biographical, and art historical references are carved and burned into the surface of his paintings, drawings, and prints.
Armendariz states, "Growing up in El Paso, Texas, with Juarez, Mexico in my backyard, I was saturated with a mix of romanticism for the new and old West, American culture, and the iconography of my ancestral past. I am influenced by the mystique of the border region, including mesas, honky tonks, and big skies reaching as far as the eye can see"