Maceo montoya art and photography

"Son to a painter, brother to a poet, how could Maceo Montoya not move in tandem to his family’s journeys? With this heartfelt self-portrait of an artist, Montoya honors his distinguished lineage by claiming an independent voice through language and imagery that matches the labors of the well-known Montoya legacy.

That voice, limned with sorrow and loss, tells the personal stories that shaped the visions of a household of artists, including his own. But to that end, this touching book also celebrates community, how one man’s trek on the hard-won path to individuality led him back to the Chicano home, the birthplace of muse and music, narrative and lyric, where he invariably discovers that: 'the great pain in my heart, the aching store of my creativity, has never been mine alone.'"

- Rigoberto González

"'[W]here does it all come from, Andrés?

The images, the words?' Posed early on, the question unleashes a mestizaje-of-a-tome—that is: a book that marries