Jaguar Serpent (study) announces itself through texture before color, its surface built up from stucco, broken dish mosaic, and ceramic tile fragments that catch light and cast small shadows across the panel. Patrick Martinez layers these materials with acrylic, spray paint, and latex house paint, arriving at a surface that feels simultaneously archaeological and urgently contemporary. The mosaic tradition embedded in this process carries deep roots in Mesoamerican visual culture, and the jaguar-serpent iconography reinforces that connection, invoking a symbolic vocabulary that predates colonial disruption while being filtered through Martinez's East Los Angeles sensibility and his longtime engagement with neon, signage, and the aesthetics of overlooked urban space. At thirty centimeters square, this is an intimate work, a study in the truest sense, concentrated and exploratory, bearing the directness that comes when an artist works at reduced scale without reducing ambition. Martinez uses the panel format to test material relationships that recur throughout his larger practice, and the result reads less like a preparatory sketch than a self-contained object with its own resolved logic. The broken dish mosaic is particularly compelling here, each shard contributing an edge and a glint that gives the surface a quality of accumulated time, as though the image has been assembled from fragments rather than simply painted. Signed by the artist and offered through the Vincent Price Art Museum Benefit Auction, this work represents an opportunity to acquire a piece by one of the most thoughtful voices working at the intersection of Chicano heritage, Los Angeles vernacular culture, and contemporary craft-based painting. The work ships from Monterey Park, California, with all applicable shipping costs and fees the responsibility of the buyer.