Rubén Ortiz Torres, Shopper Hopper

2016

Ortiz-Torres’s work updates the aesthetics of Pop art with his deployment of everyday materials, objects, and forms that are associated with Latino culture in the popular imaginary. By boldly combining the hydraulic lift mechanism commonly found in upgraded low-rider cars with a shopping cart associated with domesticity, the working-class, and unhoused people, Ortiz-Torres has created a work that is imbued with social consciousness and humor.