Jari WERC Alvarez is an artist whose work builds operative systems from ancestral cosmology, commercial glyphs, and public ritual. Raised between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso on the US/Mexico border, he works across painting, sculpture, murals, performance, and coded visual forms to examine how power is structured through time, labor, exchange, and belief.

His recent work centers Commodity Codices, a new body of work in development constructs a generative engine that structures ancestral foods and corporate glyphs as operative units within a larger calendrical system. Within this field, Chromatic Time Index, or CTI, is a temporal translation protocol in development that moves dates through Indigenous calendrical logic into computational form.

Across murals, studio works, and ritual interventions, Alvarez treats everyday materials as carriers of memory, conflict, and cosmology. His practice connects immigrant labor, urban ecologies, food systems, and Indigenous calendars, asking how ordinary objects encode larger structures of power and how alternate systems of relation can be made visible.

Alvarez has been commissioned by institutions such as LC Museum of Art, various universities and brands including NASA, Bulgari, Pantone, Toyota, Google Play, Modelo USA, Audible, Lufthansa, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. His work has been funded by the Gelman Foundation. Public artworks include the 2023 Aplomado Falcon mural, recognized for its cultural and ecological significance.