Join us for an outdoor celebration with Klique and Drastic Car Clubs, lowriders and all, and a DJ set by Yesenia Rojas (LOKA).
Tumbados is a long-term public artwork on the Storefront facade by Los Angeles artist Guadalupe Rosales with Dallas artist Lokey Calderon. Referencing the rich history of lowriders, which are a style of customized, colorful, and intricately painted cars with a dropped suspension, the work pays tribute to this multigenerational art form in Mexican-American culture and its significance within the built environment—from Los Angeles to New York, and beyond.
Originating in Southern California in the 1940s, lowriders, or “tumbados,” are more than just cars: they are extensions of those who drive them, embodying family traditions, neighborhood ties, political practices, and personal style. In this context, the term “cruising” is used when lowriders are paraded slowly through the streets. Cruising exists as both a community ritual and a contested practice, and is often met with the policing of brown bodies. Across the Storefront facade, Tumbados queers, rescales, and recontextualizes the aesthetics of this Chicanx art form, challenging its criminalization and creating a space for collective reclamation and celebration.
This work is the second commission of Storefront’s Groundworks series, which invites artists to present public artworks on Storefront’s iconic facade for an extended period. By engaging passersby through the gallery’s exterior wall, this initiative positions Storefront’s facade as a site of critical discourse, weaving together notions of place and identity within the built environment. Through each artistic commission, the series fosters understanding around the complex ideas of public life, celebrating the community, history, and politics that are inextricably linked to the construction of cultural identity within specific times and contexts.
Learn more about Tumbados, Groundworks, and the artists here.
