About

WERC Alvarez is a conceptual artist and muralist working across painting, sculpture, performance, and sacred design systems. Raised in Ciudad Juárez, on the US/Mexico border, his practice weaves ancestral cosmology with capitalist iconography—decoding empire through commercial glyphs, sacred codes, and ritual interventions that transform public life.

Beginning with graffiti in the early 1990s and evolving through Chicano muralism, his work now moves beyond walls into systems of public ceremony. Through street performances, sculptural forms, and codified paintings, Werc reimagines public art as a site for spiritual practice—where ancestral cosmologies, vendor economies, and capitalist symbols collide in acts of resistance and renewal.

His evolving body of work explores systems of lineage, exchange, and ritual—centering immigrant labor, urban ecologies, and Indigenous timekeeping. His practice transforms everyday materials into portals of ancestral knowledge, memory, and resistance, revealing how the everyday carries encoded systems of power, labor, and cultural memory.