Curator Ruben Cordova explains why the photorealist style, which is so arduous to master, appealed to Treviño: “I think initially he was driven to capture something very specific about his neighborhood and his family and his people, and I think in part that’s why he did a photo-realist style,” Cordova said. “He said he wanted to make work that was intelligible, that everybody could understand, that was universal. And, if he had [a] kind of painterly style, maybe not everybody could understand what he was doing.”
