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WHO: Elijah Zane Echeveste, 28

MEDIUM: Guitar picks, oil paints

BEST KNOWN FOR: Graphic design logos and playing the blues at Sam’s Burger Joint.

CURRENTLY: Echeveste has fostered his love for music into visual art and fashion. Most recently, Echeveste made a tight, but wearable minidress out of red, blue, yellow green, white and black guitar picks that give the dress a snakeskin-like texture. Echeveste sewed the dress as a sheet, and then a friend helped him with the final touches.

The Rock N Roll Dress, which is made of 2,449 picks and fits a woman sized zero to four, just seemed like a logical fit combining Echeveste’s interests — the aesthetics of the woman, music and fashion.
“I’ve always fancied the woman’s body,” Echeveste said. The dress has made a few appearances around San Antonio on mannequins and live models.

Echeveste’s paintings also capture his passion for music. His oil paintings are a series of abstract-form guitars. Echeveste uses simple, biomorphic forms and bright colors on the canvases to create the instrument of his choice.

Plans for another dress, which Echeveste hopes can be auctioned off in October for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, are in the works.

WEB SITE: Pickswear.com

BACKGROUND: Echeveste was born in Victoria and moved to San Antonio in 2000. He has been a blues musician for 13 years. He has worked as a graphic designer, creating everything from menus to videos, for roughly eight years.

PERSONAL LIFE: On Thursday nights, Echeveste can usually be caught playing his guitar at Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St.

CHECK HIM OUT: The Rock N Roll Dress is up through Aug. 10 at Galería Ortiz, 514 W. Commerce St. The gallery is open 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and noon-4 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call (210) 226-3036.

Emily Messer | 210SA contributor