In an episode of the PBS documentary series American Masters, the musician Ry Cooder described the painter Vincent Valdez as ...

The artist's first major museum survey, "Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream..." at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, tracks 20 years of his identity-driven photorealism.

Vincent Valdez's studio in East Los Angeles is packed with large canvases, some still in progress. There's a painting titled Supreme of the Supreme Court with portions unpainted and sketched on ...