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# Learn How to Build a Lowrider
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/learn-how-to-build-a-lowrider-petersen-automotive-museum/
- Published: 2018-04-11T14:10:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:55:39.000Z
- Description: Artists at the Petersen Automotive Museum will teach various techniques, from hydraulics and engraving, to painting and pin-striping.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Events, Los Angeles, Lowrider, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

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“El Rey” (1963), Chevrolet Impala (photo by Ted7)

The American love affair with the automobile finds its most exuberant expression in the lowrider, the highly customized cruising vehicle that Chicano/a artists and craftspeople throughout the American Southwest have been building for decades. With its mix of pin-striping, upholstery, airbrush painting, and hydraulic wizardry, the lowrider can be thought of as an automotive *gesamtkunstwerk*, or total work of art*.* The exhibition [*The High Art of Riding Low: Ranflas, Corazón e Inspiración* ](https://www.petersen.org/the-high-art-of-riding-low?ref=hyperallergic.com)currently on view at the Petersen Automotive Museum, celebrates their legacy and cultural influence, featuring work by 50 artists focused on the legendary car.

This Saturday, the lowrider tradition will come to life at the event “[How to Build a Lowrider](https://www.petersen.org/events/build-a-lowrider?ref=hyperallergic.com),” featuring demonstrationsof various techniques from hydraulics and engraving, to painting and pin-striping, with several exhibition artists. Participants include [Alberto Herrera](https://www.instagram.com/quality%5Fart/?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com), [Yely Diaz](https://yelydiaz.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), [Chino & Lolo Vega](https://www.facebook.com/C-L-Customs-220180278029844/), [Hoppos Hydraulics](https://www.hopposonline.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), and others.

**When:** Saturday, April 14, 11am–2pm  
**Where:** Petersen Automotive Museum (6060 Wilshire Boulevard, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles)

*More info at* [*Petersen Automotive Museum*](https://www.petersen.org/events/build-a-lowrider?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*