The artist known as Buddah Barrios grew up on the city’s south side and became known for his style of urban boudoir and street photography and for producing art shows.

Buddah is the latest guest on the Register Star’s “Meet the Artist” podcast where we meet the artists who make our community a more beautiful place. 

Buddah’s photography subjects are more often Latinas and women of color. He’s equally comfortable working with natural light outside city buildings as he is shooting in the privacy of a bedroom or an empty living room.

One of Buddah’s early artistic influences was his grandmother’s cooking for family meals. Later, Buddah drew inspiration from his older brother’s custom painting on cars.

The latter influenced Buddah’s curation of local art shows in which he included colorful low riders and custom motorcycles as well as two dimensional art works in the gallery.

Buddah’s latest project was the Dia de los Muertos Art Gallery, which took over an unused floor of a south side building on November 9th.

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More information

Rockford Register Star: www.rrstar.com

Host: Scott P. Yates; 815-987-1348; syates@rrstar.com; @scottpyates

Buddah Barrios Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/b_easy_photos89/

Dia De Los Muertos Art Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/DayoftheDead815/

Music:

Music from https://filmmusic.io

"Sancho Panza gets a Latte" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)