About Eduardo
Read Christina Waters’ Lyric Ode to Eduardo Carrillo in Catamaran Literary Magazine
Even now, almost twenty years after his death, it’s difficult to separate the man from his work.
Both burned brightly, bursting with energy. Now only the paintings remain.
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El Centro Regional de Arte
John Fitzgibbon Remembers El Centro Regional de Arte:
I found Ed in La Paz, Baja, California, in 1969 where he had gone in 1966, after taking the M.A. from UCLA on the strength mainly of some really excellent visionary landscapes.… Read the rest
Memorial Article by Mark Van Proyen
Exerpt from On Point
Mark Van Proyen
Artweek
December 1997
Mutatis Mutandis- the more things change, the more they stay the same. The large oak tree that spreads over the lawn next to the UC Santa Cruz art department could… Read the rest
Santa Cruz Sentinel Biography
UCSC art professor dies in Mexico at age 60
Dan White
Santa Cruz Sentinel
September 12, 1997
Accomplished muralist and UC art professor Eduardo Carrillo dies in Tijuana on July 14. The internationally known artist, who drew his inspiration from… Read the rest
Memorial Text by Christina Waters
University California, Santa Cruz
Christina Waters
1997
Adios, Eduardo, UCSC Professor of Art Eduardo Carrillo died on July 14, 1997, leaving a rich legacy of artwork and a collective broken heart.
Born on April 8, 1937 in Los Angeles, Carrillo… Read the rest
Mary Holmes Speaks at Eduardo’s Memorial Service
It’s a great joy to me, even in these circumstances, to say anything about Eduardo because I have been his ardent fan for about forty years. I knew him when he was a young man at UCLA and I instantly… Read the rest
Ed and Mary Holmes
by Alison Carrillo
Mary Holmes was a gorgeous, long-legged painter, teacher and mother who loved horses even more than she loved men. She was forty five, smarter than most, outspoken, iconoclastic, with a quick eye for what mattered: painting. She… Read the rest