A lowrider show for the ages in Watsonville — and it’s not over

If you missed it last Sunday, Main Street in Watsonville was the stage of a magnificent art show. Let’s call it automotive art. 

Pajaro Valley Arts and the Watsonville Film Festival opened their joint art show at PVA’s Porter Building gallery on Sunday. “More Than Cars: Celebrating Lowrider Culture” celebrated its opening reception on Sunday afternoon, which was followed by a thrilling “cruising” demonstration of a few dozen awesome lowrider cars, with bedazzling paint jobs and accessories, many of them “performing” with the wild hydraulic suspension that has them raising and lowering on each individual wheel. 

“More Than Cars” is a fabulous show and a chance to see PVA’s newest gallery, the downtown Porter Building tucked nicely in between the Watsonville Plaza and the public library. The show features all kinds of art celebrating the amazing cars that are a mainstay of Chicano culture, especially in California. It also presents big displays from five individual car clubs from Watsonville. If you’re into cars, you have to see it; and if you’re not, you probably will be after seeing it.

There’s plenty of time to check it out, more than three months. The show runs through the end of June.

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