Scott Andrews
San Antonio artist Jesse Treviño handed away after a battle with most cancers on Feb. 13.
A portray by late San Antonio artist Jesse Treviño will once more grace the partitions of College Well being’s Texas Diabetes Institute after being eliminated for restoration and reframing.
Trevino’s La Curandera, which interprets to “The Healer” in English, will probably be unveiled this Wednesday on the West Aspect medical facility. The paintings greeted quite a few TDI sufferers within the 20 years it served as a focus within the foyer.
Courtesy of College Well being
La Curandera portrays a scene from a botanica, a conventional Mexican natural drugs retailer.
Like a lot of Treviño’s works, the piece affords a slice-of-life have a look at San Antonio tradition — on this case a scene from a botanica, or conventional Mexican natural drugs retailer. The lady behind the counter within the paintings is Adela Gonzalez Gardea Mireles, who ran Botanica Casa Mireles till it closed its doorways in 2005.
College Well being commissioned the portray to pay homage to folk-healing traditions and the well being companies that practitioners continues to supply on the West Aspect, in accordance with a press launch from the hospital system.
Treviño died Feb. 13 at age 76 after a battle with most cancers,
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