Mario Ayala

Mario Ayala was raised amid the car-centric culture in his small town west of Los Angeles. “Music album covers, skateboarding, [street] signage, and car customization” were visual markers of his childhood, he says. After studying painting and drawing at the San Francisco Art Institute, Ayala kept returning to the idea of cars as art. In his spare time, he photographed “the rear [window] of these vehicles that I would come across, whether I was back home in LA or on my commute or traveling,” he says...