{"title":"Mario Ayala","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"mario-ayala-100-tows","title":"Mario Ayala: 100 Tows","description":"\u003cp\u003eSurveying one hundred tow sign paintings produced over the past several years,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e100 Tows\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a comprehensive look at Ayala’s ongoing Tow Sign series. Meticulously airbrushed, these works recreate the “Unauthorized Vehicles Will Be Towed” signs found throughout Los Angeles parking lots. Rendered with industrial precision, the paintings often read as printed objects, collapsing the distance between image and material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAyala is known for isolating these signs as quiet instruments of regulation embedded in the urban landscape. By replacing standard language with personal names, neighborhoods, studio information, and references drawn from Chicano visual traditions, the works transform bureaucratic warnings into intimate records of place and identity. Across the series, the signs function as a form of pseudo portraiture, tracing relationships, labor, and the lived experience of navigating a city shaped by constant monitoring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollected here for the first time, the one hundred works accumulate into a layered archive. Read together, they reveal repetition and subtle variation, charting how authority, memory, and authorship circulate through everyday visual language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Highway Liaison, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eText by Ted Gerike\u003cbr\u003eHardcover with slipcase, 215 pages, English, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mario Ayala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44303197274227,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/3699\/4062\/files\/Kordansky-2026-01-22_001-hr.jpg?v=1770935844"},{"product_id":"mario-ayala-seven-vans","title":"Mario Ayala: 7 Vans","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished by Colpa Press on occasion of \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eMario Ayala: Seven Vans\u003c\/span\u003e, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, November 14, 2025 – June 21, 2026. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssay by Patricia Restrepo, Assistant Curator \u0026amp; Exhibitions Manager at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 162 pages, English, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst printing of 300\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mario Ayala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44937946431603,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/3699\/4062\/files\/DKG_MA_5-wr.20-wr.26-0_FormattedCover-wr.jpg?v=1779479220"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/3699\/4062\/collections\/MAY-24-077-image.jpg?v=1776897397","url":"https:\/\/shop.davidkordanskygallery.com\/collections\/mario-ayala.oembed","provider":"David Kordansky Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}