Painting by well-known local artist Ada Colorina in the fine art gallery Galeria Corsica (since 2002)
Ada was born in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco  in 1970.

She creates her works in her rural studio and permanent gallery, being inspired by the town, its people, customs and traditions.
    She "gives life on canvas to what she enjoys most and makes her heart vibrate",
and has been part of the Vallarta art scene for many years.

La fiesta de Jalisco / The party of Jalisco by artist Abelardo Favela from Mexico City
Mexican art work on display in Puerto Vallarta

 Huichol yarn art from the Artesanias Kalihuey shop at 479 Juarez street in downtown
I love this piece and have some like it. Photo thanks to antefixus at Flickr

Bark art by Humberto from the state of Colima, March 2018
Photo thanks to David Cannon

Gay-owned art gallery Muy Guapo Vallarta (see their facebook) showcases old and new art from Mexico and
Latin America. Vintage textiles of varied sizes and periods, antique Mexican folk handcrafts,
contemporary pottery and wood crafts, as well as 19th century devotional art and more.
Owners Richard Parkman and Enrique Zepeda, located at 310 Venustiano Carranza.

Day of the Dead altar at the native art collection of the Galeria Indigena

 
Civilization (2016) by artist and gallery director Brewster Brockmann, owner of the fine Galeria Olinala
located at 274 Lazaro Cardenas at Ignacio Vallarta street on the South Side since 1978.
A one of a kind gallery and one of my favorite over the years. Tel: 222-4995
Terra Cotta and Mixed on paper on wood / Terra cotta y Mixta sobre papel sobre madera

 Painting by local artist Marenal from the old Galeria A.L. Arte Latinoamericano
 

From the Evelyne Boren opening at the prestigious Galerie des Artistes at 250 Leono Vicario street
downtown on February 22, 2013.
She arrived in Vallarta in 1972 on holiday to paint, and as the story goes, within 24 hours
she had met her husband-to-be and essentially never left -
hence she is the oldest living original artist in town.
Visit her website evelyneboren.com

Evelyne Boren apparently maintains a permanent studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico and also one in Sayulita, Nayarit
(just north of Puerto Vallarta along the Pacific coast) where she resides and paints during the winter.
I like the scene, the vibrant colors and perspective of the painting above.

 
The colorful Lazaro Cardenas Park on the South Side in Old Town

Charro en Azul / Cowboy in Blue painting by Bill White, oil on canvas 75 cm x 43 cm.
at The Loft Gallery, one of Vallarta's finest international boutique art galleries

 
The bronze, Turning point P/A, 86 x 76 x35 cm, by artist Victor Salmones at the Galeria Dante
 Salmones (1937-1989) was the most widely-known sculptor living and working in Mexico
during his lifetime. His work is held in museum collections world-wide. He attended the Instituto de Bellas Artes.

Professional friendly service at the Sheol art gallery downtown at 726 Morelos street with owner Jose Eduardo Gomez (left),
who would be glad to give advice on the art work exhibited at his terrific gallery

Local artist Mara Diaz at work, September 2015

Santa Rosa of Lima - was sculpted in the early 1700s for a Queretaro church and
greets guests in the open-air courtyard of upper Conchas Chinas villa Casa del Quetzal
Saint Rose became the first person of the Americas to be canonized in 1671.
 

Galeria Uno the oldest Puerto Vallarta art gallery since 1971. Showcasing art work by over
40 Mexican and international artists such as Alejandro Colunga, Alberto Fregoso, Stefan Lokos,
Luz Elena Moreno and Jesus Lopez Vega just to name a few. A fine and eclectic collection of graphics,
paintings and sculptures. Galeria Uno is one of the more interesting galleries in town,
and is located just off the downtown malecon at 561 Morelos street
 

The Washer Woman bronze statue by Jim Demetro placed in 2008 near the Cuale River bridge
and in front of the Molino de Agua condos along the malecon boardwalk
which now stretches from downtown into Old Town up to the new Los Muertos pier
 

The artistic and rather extravagant and beautiful foyer of the Le Bistro restaurant on the
Cuale River Island, once one of the top gay-owned dining spots in town.
 

Solitary musician in the downtown Zocalo or public square
playing his violin one afternoon

Gay-owned Galeria Corsica at 756 Guadalupe Sanchez at Leona Vicario street
Contemporary fine Mexican art, with one of the larger and more impressive
collections of sculptures, paintings and art objects in town.
Located across the street from the famed Cafe Des Artistes restaurant
 

Vallarta sand sculpture - artist at work on the downtown beach right off the Malecon boardwalk putting
the finishing touches on his artwork

Jim Demetro's public artwork - the bronze sculpture known as Andale Bernardo,
unveiled in February 2014 and located in the west end of the Lazaro Cardenas park

From the gay-owned Vallarta Galeria Contempo at 252 Basilio Badillo street in Old Town
Pool Players / Jugadores del Billar, a recent painting by well-known Mexican artist Abelardo Favela, 2014
 

ART VallARTa offers plein air painting on the Playa Los Muertos beach
every Tuesday morning at 9am-Noon from December to April with
instructor Adrian Rojas, who painted the piece above.
Photo thanks to the folks at the art vallarta studio
 

Some of the huichol yarn paintings and fine Catrina dolls at one of the two
Tierra Huichol stores, located downtown along the Malecon and also
at 246 Olas Altas street, right next door to the Banorte bank.
 

Cecilia Rivera's painting 'untitled' from
the old La Pulga gallery (now closed) which was downtown at 230 Leona Vicario street
 

Some beautiful public native art painted on wall of the artesanias store
on the Cuale River Island at Insurgentes street, representing many of the traditional
Huichol figures such as the sacred deer, cayman, swan, lamb and mountain cat.
 

 
Native hand-painted art at the Colectika Gallery
 on Guadalupe Sanchez street at Allende in downtown
 

Statue of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and a leader of the War of Independence
from Spain of 1810, in the park which bears his name, Hidalgo Park
located just north of the downtown Malecon boardwalk 

Fine mexican indigenous and native art at Galeria Indigena,
located downtown at 628 Juarez street.
Indigena has a wide selection of dance and ceremonial masks, handcrafted Oaxacan black clay pottery,
unique Day of the Dead items, religious arts & figures,
hand blown glass, Huichol Indian bead and yarn work, and majolica pottery from Tlaxcala, etc.

The watercolor, Puerto Encantado, 57 x 76 cm, by artist Luis Valui
at the popular Galleria Dante, open since 1988, and still
located in Old Town at 269 Basilio Badillo street
 

Inside the La Pulga gallery downtown (now closed) 

 
Painting by artist Claudia Nery, who was borin in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1963,
at the popular Galeria Uno, the oldest gallery in town open since 1971, and still
located in downtown at 561 Morelos street
 

   
Blown glass sculptures at the Tierra Huichol store on the Malecon, located at 592 Paseo Diaz Ordaz street.
Photo thanks to Danielle R. at Yelp. Many beautiful hand-crafted items there. Unique.
 

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"We are all made of the same clay, but not from the same mold."  - Mexican proverb

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