website: niadart.org
Luis Estrada (b. 1982) is an artist who has been creating work at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, CA since 2004. Estrada refers to himself as “The Weatherman," and for years he has meticulously recorded environmental changes, catastrophic weather events, and the natural phenomena impacting our daily lives. As Luis describes, “Far away in Mexico and Texas, there's tornados. There’s earthquakes 365 days a year, and New York City is frozen.
Everything happens, the weather changes real fast. The weather changes backwards.” Estrada’s practice ranges from notational paintings and drawings to figurative ceramics and embroidered textiles, and also explores themes relating to personal history, celebrity WWE drama, and the passage of time. Estrada’s work has been collected and exhibited nationally, and was most recently featured in exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California and Wave Pool Gallery in Cincinnati, OH.