Sol Dorado Art Gallery

The most beautiful selection of the Mexican Art and the widest selection of silver in jewelry and sculptures made by great masters.

We have been the best in town since its foundation in 1983 by Rosa Luz Duran the owner personally selects all the pieces of the gallery. We will be really honored by your visit to our gallery.

Artists on exhibition

SCULPTURES	PAINTINGS	CERAMIC	BLOWN GLASS	JEWELLERS
Rodo Padilla	Cruz Coldivar "7"	Maximo Huerta	Rodolfo Pila	Vanessa Arregui
Cruz Coldivar "7"	Alberto Vazquez Navarrete	Arte Cruz	Tonala	Alejandro Marquina
Vicente Martinez	Israel Vazquez Roman	Ken Edwards	IGNEA	Rodo Padilla
Dominique Haas	Rodolfo Pila	Erandi	Fused Glass	Taxco Jewelers
Fray Robertino	Juan Silva	Amora		Dichroic Glass
Mario Gonzalez		Great Style		Endo Lozano

The Huichol indians have a long artistic tradition. Before the Europeans arrived, they used to create art similar as today, except they didn't have beads. They used shells, rocks, seeds, Thorns and wood, dyed with natural colors derived from bugs and berries. Now they do vivid bead designs depicting visions from their rituals and the wisdom of their lives.

He dedicates his heart and soul, to each and every of the pieces he paints. His future is full of work and He states, whatever I design, I will never stop painting, because here is where I (express my self), I feel Alive and then let my mind fly free.

His sculptures are made in ceramic and bronze are limited and numbered editions, each one has an authenticity certificate signed by the artist. The figurines and sculptures are fired at high temperatures at 1250°C (Stoneware), and the bronzes are painted

One of the masters of ceramics in Tonala, he is a schoolteacher of many famous ceramic artists. He create ceramic sculpture eggs with the sun and moons inside, it also creates frogs, butterflies and mushrooms.

it’s been the years of dedication heart and soul that have allowed me to live spiritually in everyone of my painting.

He is a tireless, insatiable seeker: he observes investigates, design and models in order to share limited edition pieces with his unique vision of the world dreams and fantasy are his main source of ideas: other wordily beings forces through a slow, uncensored metamorphosis under his hand and eye.

Born in Mexico City in 1952. He studied architecture and initiates his career as an artist at his father atelier, Mr. Antonio Vazquez Parra. In 1995 he receives the

Honorary International Citizen New Orleans award. Conception: generic colors, soft tonality, transparent and vibrant chiaroscuro (contrast for perspective), scales of gradual iIIumination missing white with the tonal grays or compensatory colors to give the balance, match and clarity.
Medium: Fresh oil colors, applied with a palette knife on a stretched white untextured canvas that has been treated with resins.
Theme: Typical Mexican landscape showing the traditional characteristic customs.
Style: Basically is objective and symbolic impressionism, but uses expressionistic drawing, claroscuro and temporal chromatic atmosphere to form this unique style.

Born in Cuernavaca, Mor. The technique used: From drawings, watercolors true mixed (Oil and acrylics) apply on wood and canvas treated with marble dust.

Juan Silva
He learned the art of Tables Votives from his mother's people the Huichol Indians. His abilities to depict the traditional tribal themes were soon recognized. In 1976 he moved to Baja California where his traditional works soon came in to demand. Studied under Spanish artist Marcos Robinson who taught him how to put motion in to his art. The enhancement of the ancient art form of the Huichol Indian portraying new objects has caught the eyes of many art admirers. The Huichol Indians They pride themselves as being the only tribe not conquered by the Conquistadores. Family historical events and religious offerings were preserved in pictures crafted in this medium. Juan Silva works present visual pleasures of satisfying colors and designs.

Oil pantings on canvas with texture and themes of Mexican people and scenes from mexico, marine drawings, sailing boats and desert scenes.

From many generations transmits all the beauty from Tonala Town in drawings and decorating blowing glass pieces and ceramic. One of the best artist on flag ceramic earthenware. a true artist with the soul of Mexico.

Leather masks - He began sculpting leather and selling his work in 1987. specially prepares the leather and later shapes for each mask from one seamless piece. He works alone in a small rustic studio attached to his home. Some of his more elaborate sculptures require weeks or even months to complete.

Without any doubts the most finest talavera from puebla is signed by Máximo Huerta the more experienced man with the ancient abilities of the craftsmen from Puebla enriches the typical process of creating excellent pieces of talavera. the pieces are painted by hand with the patience and imagination bake to 1922 F, that converts them into those brilliant and colorful works recognized all over the world as authentic Talavera.

These Talavera signed by Arte Cruz with his owner Marino Flores made The most complete talavera vajilla sets with his unique drawings and colors that every one should have on that special dinner. You will find it on exhibition at Sol Dorado – Art gallery.

In 1959, after residing in Guadalajara, Jalisco for 4 years, he began the production of stoneware ceramic. the world famous traditional Tonalá hand-painted
decoration; the ancient Chinese –technology
of reduction-fired celadon stoneware with enclosed under glaze ceramic production in Tonalá without losing its rich popular tradition. The exquisite variety of its forms and decoration has made it a widely accepted line in national and international markets

Erandi
whom since July 1986 has been fully dedicated to preserve and maintain the “Millenary” STATE OF THE ART” from the Cultural Roots of the people of this aware of the area, being able to crate therefore, artistically pieces of exceptional beauty. The group of people takes pride on their past, but look also at the future being aware of the goals to be accomplished in order to be competitive on the requirements of the modern world.

The beauty drawings on this lead free ceramic and with different artists you will find best quality ceramic The Different artist we show: Hortensia Amora, Pedro Espinola, Mauricio Preciado, Talavera Gamez.

Expectacular pieces on blown glass; vases in many colors forms and shapes will decorate any place bringing exquisite creations to your soroindings.

Rodolfo Carrillo - Fused Glass
Exclusive hand painted fused glass at 1,500 °F Art expresses itself in different ways and it’s projection beautifies our surroundings, it brings out the different perceptions.The art
impressed in glass and with technique and images unique in his style. The Artist Rodolfo Carrillo creates unique designs trough the fused glass and the images hand painted of our Mexico with a great rustic vision and beautiful decoration.

Hand Made Engraved glass with precious metal applications, 23 k Gold, platinum, Silver, Bronze. Ancient features cover the surfaces of these works. At sight loud sonority will accompanies the epopee of his
Pass thru live. Images of ancient sounds full of life and heroic mysticism, in perfect concordance, with the universe. Luminosities that pours from heaven, fulgurated flashes. Of magical daybreaks of magical shade that recalled the
universal travelers. Vertiginous transit thru abstract intellectual lines that are molded with unusual strength and has no age or origin defined, only that which we give it with our own references. With this line IGNEA brings us the memories of eras that comes from the confines of golden ages and unknown and that comes to us wrapped in bottomless mysteries, but full of a heritage that belong to us and which it is here, ready to be recognized and appreciated surrounding of our intimated spaces. All the works is an example of an original
artistic beauty work and very functional. IGNEA has developed the technique that allows the fusion of glass at very high temperature with precious metals like gold, silver, platinum and colorfully copper.
Paper Mache Animals

Step forward in the art of alebrijes". An art finely carved, fantastically colored, radiating with beauty and imagination. Olegario Luis Sosa, originally from Mitla, Oaxaca, has become one of the grand masters of the art of "alebrijes". Thanks to his perfectionism he has developed a style that he has mastered known as "fine alebrijes". This represents a step forward in the development of this type of art, characterized for its color, fantasy and movement. It is an art finely carved, fantastically colored, radiating in beauty.

These are carved wood pieces and hand painted called folk Art in Mexico. Full of colors and pieces strange to the eyes some made form imaginations of people that lives on the mountains of Oaxaca.
The artists Joaquin Hernandez Vasquez made commercial pieces very colorfull. Olegario Luis Sosa from Mitla, Oaxaca. carves his own designs of fine pieces different to the other standard pieces call alebrijes.

Without any doubts, one of the most important handcrafts in Mexico is the lacqueur tecnique. Olinala is located in the mountain area in Guerrero state bordering the states of Puebla and Oaxaca..There materials : chiaseed oil, linseed oil, soils and pigments. The chiaseed oil Scratching the piece,they decorate while the piece is wet; most are animals and birds in different aspects, jumping up, jumping down, playing, alert ,etc. Finishing the scratching they apply pigments.They usually do the scratching with cactus thorns. The dotting is made with the point of a turkey feather. It take aproximate 55 days to finish one piece. Other technique is the golden work . The used litlle gold leafs and silver stripes that you applied with the chiaseed oil. Each one is unique and has the time and heart of this wonderful artists.

Dichroic coated glass is produced by a process called “thin film physics” and is generally referred to as a color separator. It’s normally used as an interference filter in scientific measuring or correcting applications. To get this effect, thin layers of metallic oxides, such as titanium, silicon, and magnesium are deposited upon the surface of the glass in a high temperature, vacuum furnace. The glass to be coated is carefully cleaned, and fastened to a planetary arm in the top of the furnace chamber. The oxides are placed in a crucible on the bottom of the chamber. Air inside of the chamber is removed with a high vacuum-producing gyro-pump, and the chamber is heated to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The glass being coated can be a flat or rippled glass and the color will differ on the different textures. This artists presents the most beautiful jewelry in sterling silver .925 with his creastions of dichroic.

Designer of beatiful jewellery from Guadalajara, Jalisco. One of our youngest designers but totally accepted in designers world. She uses swaroski cristals and sterling silver .925

Hammered jewelery on Bronze with exclusive designs on jewelery the natural state of the art with roots of an ancient times. He learn the technique from his father who made pieces to the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

has dedicated to crete art pieces, sculptures and pictures on silver, copper and gold. The quiality on these pieces will satisfy you with a total guaranty we use .999 silver. We think on our roots creating a prehispanic line reach and appreciate all the worldwide, an animals line art, pictures and figurines with a total of 156 different models. Having in these lines limited edition pieces for the quality with the respective certificate of authenticity which is guarantee at acquire limited edition pieces.

amazing pieces on iron forge making art pieces very decorative art work. Candle holders, bars, chairs, ables, vases, fountains. and a hole variety of furniture we specialize in unique candle holders

Exclusive and rustique furniture Credenzas, Tables, chairs, Bars all made on mesquite wood and others. we have a wide selection.

The composition is Aluminum 89.18 %, Cooper 3.19 %, Silicon 7.63 %, Lead 0.00 %. Each piece is manually molded in fine sand with an original model; when the sand mold is ready, metal is poured into it. Then it is highly polished by a high quality craftsmen. the process of sand modeling, which is done by the hands of our Mexican craftsman. Even though the pewter has a silver appearance, in reality it is a very special allow of several metals made to fit the advantage of pewter. As decorative objects, need very little maintenance, dusting and cleaning can be done as simple as with a damp cloth. But the best part is that they are ment to be used in the kitchen. The ability is keeping hot or cold food. You can use them in the oven. Great presentation of your food.

IRON FORGE	PAPER MACHE	FURNITURE	CARVING WOOD	HAND CRAFTS
Candle holders	Ernesto Lopez	Credenzas	Huichol	TIN METAL ART AND LAMPS
Fountains	Mario Gonzalez	Tables	Olinala	HAND EMBROIDERY
Decorative Pieces	Ruvalcaba	Chairs	Olegario Luis Sosa	MEXICAN PEWTER
Bar, tables and chairs	Sermel	Bar
Plant vases

Sol Dorado - Art Gallery