Painting my mother, my brothers … and how important that was!” Treviño said.Īnd that’s exactly what he did. “I was thinking about paintings I’d never done. Trevino went on to find national accolades and to paint what came to him in Vietnam, lying in a muddy rice paddy. While hardly instantaneous, over time his mind taught his left arm to paint, and exceedingly well. You don’t lose that talent.’ ”Įventually, Jesse picked up that brush and began to learn painting with his non-dominant arm. I lost my painting arm.’ And I would say ‘Jesse, you lost a painting arm, but you’ve got another one. “I would tell him every day, ‘Jesse, look - there’s a canvas, an easel, paint. So he secured an easel, canvas, brush and paints. He didn’t want to talk to anybody,” Albarran recalled. Jesse Treviño doing maintenance on La Veladora. I could tell you every square footage of this space.” “This was sort of our bicycle raceway, right here. “This is the block on which Jesse lived, and I lived down the street, Cisneros said. Henry Cisneros, for San Antonio mayor and HUD secretary in the Clinton administration, did his interview in a car while he was driving down the street both he and Jesse were raised on. Beamer’s documentary weaves stories from Treviño himself, and friends and family to tell one of the city’s most amazing stories. I didn’t think I was ever going to make it.” “I got blown up by a booby trap and got shot into my leg at the same time. “That’s when I got drafted, and I ended up in Vietnam,” Treviño said. Treviño said that move would never happen because of the Vietnam War. Treviño moved to New York’s pre-hippie enclave of Greenwich Village, and after much success at school, was contemplating a move to Paris. chose New York because he had a family member living in Brooklyn.” “He won all kinds of contests, grade school and high school, and then he won scholarships to both the Art Students League of New York and the Chicago Art Institute. Moves to San Antonio with his family when he is four, is a child prodigy in arts and is going to do great things,” Beamer said. “He is born in Mexico into poverty, one of 12 children. Jesse Treviño: The Artist, The Man lives up to its expansive title, showing lots of art, and it also does a deep dive into the man who created it.īeamer said Treviño’s life is a great example of overcoming odds.
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