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Through courtesy of the artist, and as part of our research on “Car Customizing & Outlaw Aesthetics,” we’ve put together a little gallery of some of Robt. Williams’ automobile related oil paintings.
With a distinct bouquet of gasoline fumes and burnt rubber, these images will chase you down like ethnographic hallucinations, vibrantly artistic, generously fantastic. We think you might dig!
![[Painting by Robt. Williams showing a nude drive-in waitress in front of a drive-in in ruins.]](img/robt-williams-a-carousers-ode-460.jpg)
Painting Robt. Williams
The first item off the “Car Customizing and Outlaw Aesthetics” desk was a gallery of New Mexico lowriders by photographer Jack Parsons. Jack is the grandson of pioneering anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons, and tells us he has “a soft spot for cultural anthropology.”
The pictures are from Low ’n Slow: Lowriding in New Mexico (Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999).
Back while he was doing fieldwork among lowriders in the southwestern states of USA, American Ethnography’s owner and editor Martin Hoyem photographed the people he met and their cars.
Here’s a gallery of Hoyem’s photos from his fieldwork. We’ve called it Southern California Lowriders: Los Angeles 2005.
