tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48772208547781029632024-03-29T04:02:33.233-07:00MAC ARTMAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-86378834145397265922023-08-15T12:14:00.002-07:002023-08-15T12:21:13.960-07:00New EL MAC prints: 'Mystical Rose'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJuSHzCz8a4z6HGocEfqKPJBR9GlDB2nuy4CZLE8suL_qWm5e3JTlaHrZhitktFGXwcO5n5auxYY5TUPWRXjHfTWf-5uz_Qx0HOput9hPrrp8RW_S_Q4nhCYk79av7qBwONf7HRNtrpcCK-TOVrqqp4DQ1bW4uQpOjxfHc3JSa2Pck--TjZEj1s9WjSvuw/s4491/IMG_8005c1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4491" data-original-width="3159" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJuSHzCz8a4z6HGocEfqKPJBR9GlDB2nuy4CZLE8suL_qWm5e3JTlaHrZhitktFGXwcO5n5auxYY5TUPWRXjHfTWf-5uz_Qx0HOput9hPrrp8RW_S_Q4nhCYk79av7qBwONf7HRNtrpcCK-TOVrqqp4DQ1bW4uQpOjxfHc3JSa2Pck--TjZEj1s9WjSvuw/w281-h400/IMG_8005c1.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Purchase at <a href="http://elmac.art">http://elmac.art</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Sale opens Friday @10am PST<br />Print details:<br />"Mystical Rose"<br />Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist.<br />Hand-pulled screenprints made with Andres Zavala in Boyle Heights, California. Serigraphs printed using seven colors, with a few thin layers of clear ink over some of the linework.<div>Editions I, II, and V printed on archival + acid-free, 100% cotton, 300 gsm, Saunders Waterford paper made by St. Cuthbert's Mill in England.</div><div>Editions III + IV printed on colored, archival + acid-free, 100% cotton, 300 gsm, Pescia paper made by Magnani in Italy<br />21in x 27in paper size<br />(18.5in x 23.5in printed area)</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />There are five completely different color editions of this print:<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"Mystical Rose"</b>:<br />edition of 40<br />reds and blues<br />$475<br /><br /><b>"</b><b>Mystical Rose</b><b> II"</b>:<br />edition of 34<br />oranges and greens<br />$525<br /><br /><b>"</b><b>Mystical Rose</b><b> III"</b>:<br />edition of 25<br />grays on cream paper<br />$575</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"</b><b>Mystical Rose</b><b> IV"</b>:<br />edition of 25<br />blues on light blue paper<br />$575</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"</b><b>Mystical Rose</b><b> V"</b>:<br />edition of 17<br />gold (oranges and yellows)<br />$650</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Artist's statement about the work:<br /></div><div><br />The rose, symbolic of love and beauty, as well as the transience of life and the material world, has long been considered the 'queen of flowers'. 'Mystical Rose' is also a poetic title for the Blessed Mother. Painting this image earlier this year was an expression of love and gratitude, and a way of processing the passing of my own beloved mother, who helped shape my approach to life, love and beauty.</div><div>In a 1964 interview the legendary jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams said "I am praying through my fingers when I play…I get that good 'soul sound', and I try to touch people's spirits." </div><div>I was instilled with a similar understanding, because art-making can sometimes be a form of prayer—a meditative, devotional practice of creation and connection, where if the work is soulful at all it might touch some spirits. I hope that this simple image might also touch some spirits.<br /></div></div></div><div><br /></div>MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-51321533887243190492023-02-24T14:41:00.009-08:002023-06-30T22:40:32.262-07:00New EL MAC prints: 'El Obrero'<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1EkNrkHrfW8IUtpYU8ouxubgoLGc9nKtE0cr23Bmr4CnvG5FJxWDKxnlg-3os_Mm2ETmRi1W4EGitoM4_ssq6SE61VDdFbJD1WtrJXWz7QaqS7yX0JoJrs2ya7sx7H37RwwRwQWBujYhCS8PMCNmF-kmaCDEkKVHeA-Ya9Y3bTXHTgir-3yHyXXNzeQ/s4256/IMG_6945cbest3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4256" data-original-width="2888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1EkNrkHrfW8IUtpYU8ouxubgoLGc9nKtE0cr23Bmr4CnvG5FJxWDKxnlg-3os_Mm2ETmRi1W4EGitoM4_ssq6SE61VDdFbJD1WtrJXWz7QaqS7yX0JoJrs2ya7sx7H37RwwRwQWBujYhCS8PMCNmF-kmaCDEkKVHeA-Ya9Y3bTXHTgir-3yHyXXNzeQ/w271-h400/IMG_6945cbest3.jpg" width="271" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtn85hUJ6Cfsw4nlZD8YJJTzLNygdI6fbu0Ji9CdSJ5DYiw397V_YXcFi3WH_SYc2EwzhxurkR2aL7gK0sOryHnTd_msiLpTUEPrYlEslNbffPxR8WDI1Bc1nxNg5mjHnvsDCWANYiKH68DvGvWS_enkDADOFdB36YHtFSY82DcpzuHA1GLALLdloFGg/s3648/El%20Obrero%20print.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Purchase at <a href="http://elmac.art">http://elmac.art</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Sale opens Saturday @10am PST<br />Print details:<br />"El Obrero"<br />Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist.<br />Hand-pulled screenprints made with Tony Clough at Serio Press in<br />Pasadena, California. Serigraphs printed using 11 colors.<br />Printed on acid-free, 100% cotton, 330 gsm, Italian-made Revere paper.<br />33in x 26in paper size<br />(30in x 22.5in printed area)<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />There are three different color editions of this print:<br /><br /><b>"El Obrero"</b>:<br />edition of 62<br />warm colors over black base<br />$500<br /><br /><b>"</b><b>El Obrero</b><b> II"</b>:<br />edition of 26<br />warm colors over dark blue base<br />$600<br /><br /><b>"</b><b>El Obrero</b><b> III"</b>:<br />edition of 6<br />warm colors over light blue base<br />$750<br /><br /></span></div>Artist's statement about the work:<br /><br />These prints are adapted from an acrylic painting that I worked on over the last two years. The image was inspired by a protestor I saw at an immigrant and worker rights march many years ago. It follows a long tradition of Via Crucis/Path of Sorrows imagery in devotional western art, but I also saw it as a meditation on labor and mutuality.<br />I was raised with a sort of philosophy of work, where art making and creative labor can be a kind of prayer, where there can be beauty in striving to become better at whatever we do and in the giving of oneself in service to others. Love, beauty, and work—all can be connected.<br />We are, nearly all of us, workers in some form or another, but that commonality gets overshadowed so often by cultural, racial, or various identity issues. Despite all our increasing digital connectedness we seem to be further separated and isolated in many ways. When we look at the world today and see that despite all the advancements much of our global family still suffers to some degree or another from poverty, exploitation, marginalization. Power and wealth continue to concentrate among a tiny few, while working people as a group steadily fall further into precarity. This is a trend that does not help build a world where it is easier for people to live or to love each other.<br />Just before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated he was helping striking sanitation workers, and in his last speeches he spoke of the dignity of labor and the importance of solidarity with other working people, of a kind of "dangerous unselfishness" described in the parable of the Good Samaritan. And what is dangerous unselfishness if not self-sacrificing love?<br />"To work to increase our love for God and for our fellow man (and the two must go hand in hand), this is a lifetime job. We are never going to be finished. Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others.”<br />-Dorothy Day</div></div>MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-29762485429475914402022-10-20T19:00:00.001-07:002022-10-21T04:34:20.637-07:00New EL MAC prints: 'Totlazonantzin'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bsF06HE_t4iHcIA_Iz_U6fO7nv3w_Bh_tHINAw7FhoYKL0DtDov2U9lK4f6KqPrzQcdd98H_o8C9B6pBJTFE9KOcW6kqWNFIts8tYXopafpxfLMgdaHDcjqUontAZJx4A35smgH75f2Hs5i14a60aEm7tfxwIemP1LgLOhY5bQ-oB1vyhZDleKwykQ/s3672/IMG_1268cw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bsF06HE_t4iHcIA_Iz_U6fO7nv3w_Bh_tHINAw7FhoYKL0DtDov2U9lK4f6KqPrzQcdd98H_o8C9B6pBJTFE9KOcW6kqWNFIts8tYXopafpxfLMgdaHDcjqUontAZJx4A35smgH75f2Hs5i14a60aEm7tfxwIemP1LgLOhY5bQ-oB1vyhZDleKwykQ/w314-h400/IMG_1268cw.jpg" width="314" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Purchase at <a href="http://elmac.art">http://elmac.art</a></div><div><br /><div>Sale opens Friday @10am PST<br />Print details:<br />"Totlazonantzin"<br />Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist.<br />Hand-pulled screenprints made with Andres Zavala in Boyle Heights, California. Serigraphs printed using five colors, with a few thin layers of clear ink over some of the linework.<br />Editions I-V printed on soft, acid-free, 100% cotton, 300 gsm, German-made Hahnemühle paper.</div><div>(Editions VI + VII printed on colored Italian-made Magnani paper)<br />21in x 27in paper size<br />(18.5in x 23.5in printed area)<br /><br />There are seven different color editions of this print:<br /><br /><b>"Totlazonantzin"</b>:<br />edition of 40<br />orange and turquoise<br />$450<br /><br /><b>"Totlazonantzin II"</b>:<br />edition of 34<br />grayscale<br />$500<br /><br /><b>"Totlazonantzin III"</b>:<br />edition of 23<br />purple and blue<br />$550<br /><br /><b>"Totlazonantzin IV"</b>:<br />edition of 19<br />grayscale (inverted)<br />$600<br /><br /><b>"Totlazonantzin V"</b>:<br />edition of 12<br />dark blue and peach (inverted)<br />$750</div><div><br /></div><div><b>"Totlazonantzin VI"</b>:<br />edition of 12<br />orange, light turquoise and indigo</div><div>printed on cream paper</div><div>$750<br /><br /><b>"Totlazonantzin VII"</b>:<br />edition of 12<br />all blue tones</div><div>printed on light blue paper<br />$750</div><div><br /></div><div>Artist's statement about the work:<br /><br />Totlazonantzin translates to "our beloved mother" in Nahuatl, and can be seen in the Nican Mopohua ("Here It Is Told"), the first recorded account of the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe, written in the mid-1500s and first published in 1649. <br />In my own experience growing up in the southwestern US, the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was very familiar and seemingly ever-present. She could be seen at home and in the homes of friends, inside churches and on the outside of liquor stores, sometimes accompanied by tough-looking Old English letters or flowery script on clothing, blankets, lowriders, etc. One of my favorite t-shirts I wore in the late '90s had an image of Our Lady carrying an injured or dying cholo underneath the phrase "mi vida está en tus manos(my life is in your hands)". Almost a century earlier she'd adorned the banners of Zapata's revolutionary peasant armies, and a century before that was on Hidalgo's banners fighting for independence from Spain. In the words of Octavio Paz, she is "the consolation of the poor, the shield of the weak, the help of the oppressed". The icon of La Guadalupana can represent, among other things, the idea of a celestial and loving maternal figure, a comforting presence both human and cosmic, natural and supernatural. As a feminine counterbalance to the patriarchal emphasis of much of Western religion, she is our heavenly Mother, la Madre del Cielo. <br />I think of the depth of the love between myself and my own mom, and the love between my son and his mama, and I see the imagery of Nuestra Madre/Our Mother as carrying some sense of that kind of love. As an artist I do believe that 'beauty will save the world', and there's great beauty and poetry in this enduring, popular celebration of divine motherhood. I painted this humble interpretation of the iconic image with reverence and sincerity, and a desire for it to transmit some of the love that went into it and the motherly love it symbolizes.<br /></div></div><div><br /></div>MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-77119431059359558042022-02-21T22:15:00.004-08:002022-02-22T10:29:57.292-08:00New EL MAC prints: 'All Shall Be Well'<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFUH-8VInuhHO_eZqO5rKjbFTrr0s9diENHTg8fdBL87xCcxY1KcvYt8oVbxaPG7H1UTtjOLhUFVKbK2AIJ9tuIjR9kcX2tbFd62wMU6vhIWoFh05QuHYFnFJhmC4SH4XUUUP4UDOUgpkN3lO5iXxpi0ehymUYt7RQOw76Pm6516jshh-6muWzP13xVA=s3884" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3884" data-original-width="2914" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFUH-8VInuhHO_eZqO5rKjbFTrr0s9diENHTg8fdBL87xCcxY1KcvYt8oVbxaPG7H1UTtjOLhUFVKbK2AIJ9tuIjR9kcX2tbFd62wMU6vhIWoFh05QuHYFnFJhmC4SH4XUUUP4UDOUgpkN3lO5iXxpi0ehymUYt7RQOw76Pm6516jshh-6muWzP13xVA=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>New print release this Wednesday, February 23rd. Purchase at <a href="http://elmac.net">http://elmac.net</a></div><div>Sale opens Wednesday @10am PST</div><div><br /></div><div>Print details:</div><div>"All Shall Be Well"<br />Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist.<br />Hand-pulled screenprints made with Andres Zavala in Boyle Heights, California. Serigraphs printed using four colors, with four thin layers of clear ink over the darkest linework.<br />Printed on acid-free, 100% cotton, 320 gsm, USA-made Coventry Rag paper.<br />27in x 22in paper size <br />(24in x 19in printed area)<br /><br />There are four different color editions of this print:<br /><br /><b>"All Shall Be Well"</b>: </div><div>edition of 27</div><div>red over cream</div><div>$450<br /><br /><b>"</b><b>All Shall Be Well</b><b> II"</b>: </div><div>edition of 26</div><div>dark red over light red</div><div>$500</div><div><br /></div><div><b>"</b><b>All Shall Be Well</b><b> III"</b>: </div><div>edition of 26</div><div>dark grey over light grey</div><div>$500</div><div><br /></div><div><b>"</b><b>All Shall Be Well</b><b> IV"</b>: </div><div>edition of 25</div><div>dark blue over light blue</div><div>$600</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Artist's statement about the work:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The title of these prints,<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> All Shall Be Well</em>, comes from English mystic and theologian Julian of Norwich, who at the age of thirty in May of 1373 had a series of visions while seriously ill and seemingly close to death that she took to be revelations from God. After recovering she wrote about the experience, while devoting the rest of her life to spiritual contemplation as an anchoress willingly confined to a small room adjoined to a church, and providing spiritual counsel to the public from that room through a small window. Her text, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Revelations of Divine Love</em>, is the earliest known writing in English by a woman.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This book includes a number of celestial reassurances that 'all shall be well' through an all-encompassing and everlasting universal love. Some of these parts could sound like cheerful platitudes if taken out of context, but it's important to consider that Julian lived through a violent time of wars and suffering, when over a third of Europe's population died from the plague. So things were far from being well back then, but this remarkable theologian and mystic sought to share her profound conviction that there is a force of love surrounding us greater than any suffering and despair, that love is the meaning of life, and through this love, all <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">shall</em> be well. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope that in some small way my art, and recollection of this message, might also carry a little bit of that love.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'And thus our good Lord answered all the questions and doubts I could put forward, saying most comfortingly, ‘I may make all things well, I can make all things well and I will make all things well and I shall make all things well; and you shall see for yourself that all manner of things shall be well.’</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-Julian of Norwich(1343-1416)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Revelations of Divine Love</em>, chapter 31(long text)"</span></p></div>MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-54015939344979887032021-04-21T13:11:00.003-07:002021-04-21T13:13:25.065-07:00New EL MAC prints: 'Rebirth'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqCSTCAv44numW_7qg5dte-eSz57g5yGg9EAw_0UeizFQmH4oNoSINOssFWFw6BvBDY-0Gz4fY11iZoRdb43rVrwtQIErGzJ8ekq6cVKPKu2Y_vQU4RXXkKOYGXcIa9cs8YLEXyZONFVh/s1589/Rebirth+I+sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Purchase info will be posted that day at <a href="http://elmac.net">http://elmac.net</a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Print details:</div><div>"Rebirth"<br />Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist.<br />Hand-pulled screenprints made with master printer Tony Clough at <a href="http://seriopress.com/">Serio Press</a> in Pasadena, California. Serigraphs printed using two to three colors with five thin layers of clear ink over the linework.<br />Printed on acid-free, 100% cotton, 330 gsm, Italian-made Revere paper.<br />39in x 32in paper size (plus natural deckled edge along bottom)<br />(36in x 28.5in printed area)<br /><br />There are four different color editions of this print:<br /><br /><b>"Rebirth"</b>:<br />edition of 43</div><div>split-fountain blend of two shades of dark red over bright vermilion red</div><div>$600<br /><br /><b>"Rebirth II"</b>:<br />edition of 16</div><div>black over cream</div><div>$750</div><div><br /></div><div><b>"Rebirth III"</b>: </div><div>edition of 16</div><div>black over grey</div><div>$750</div><div><br /></div><div><b>"Rebirth IV"</b>:</div><div>edition of 12</div><div>split fountain blend of two shades of medium red over cream</div><div>$850</div><div><br /></div><div>Artist's statement about the work:<br />This image is adapted from a large acrylic brushwork on wood panel painting that I worked on at various times from 2013 until 2019, progressing slowly line by line, pattern by pattern. </div><div>When I began the painting it was sort of a symbolist meditation on trauma, and the feeling of being overwhelmed by the misery and pain of this world. A phrase from Erich Fromm stayed with me as I worked on it—"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often". I worked on the painting periodically over the course of time in between other paintings and murals, while our family saw illnesses, weddings, deaths, and, around the time of this painting's completion, a birth. The feeling behind the image had transformed into something a little bit more hopeful, and eventually Fromm's line was replaced in my mind by another, from John Berger— "And so to find an exit from the darkness". The initial exploration here of the fetal position as a protective response to trauma then came to also be about healing, and of the potential for new beginnings and brighter futures. I put a tremendous amount of care, love, and time towards trying to make this image beautiful, and I hope that might help transmit some sense of rebirth and renewal.</div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-35035709761171956962021-04-15T08:26:00.003-07:002021-04-15T09:16:17.510-07:00New EL MAC mural with AISE BORN in Ohio: "AXIS MUNDI"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibrBSxTlXhdOEYnsMGx-4njTED0l57lSORRVGXnb6Ep9a2wq4p23UoBpnT2FpB8jAXtRXRGoCBf1ZlTdifct3qamq1kmHnMn7on7DwgLQK7lp6yyL6i-pU2fhrGjo6hxk1sM8rGMaJhp1E/s1656/IMG_4394c2sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="1656" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibrBSxTlXhdOEYnsMGx-4njTED0l57lSORRVGXnb6Ep9a2wq4p23UoBpnT2FpB8jAXtRXRGoCBf1ZlTdifct3qamq1kmHnMn7on7DwgLQK7lp6yyL6i-pU2fhrGjo6hxk1sM8rGMaJhp1E/w400-h296/IMG_4394c2sm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_rlz8eN950YZ9MMhvnKUY4SlND7bonC1iqcCd__3OlM9GPxg5C1gebbJ6hHOoKboik217ILD27HFOAcKVbsw324diOzX1bBTBDF_qo98ORHIkpvVGLCXPhs59f8olG5CQVjNh5p368ww/s1656/IMG_4366c+11x15sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1656" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_rlz8eN950YZ9MMhvnKUY4SlND7bonC1iqcCd__3OlM9GPxg5C1gebbJ6hHOoKboik217ILD27HFOAcKVbsw324diOzX1bBTBDF_qo98ORHIkpvVGLCXPhs59f8olG5CQVjNh5p368ww/w300-h400/IMG_4366c+11x15sm.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>This mural is a collaboration with my friend Jacori "<a href="https://www.aiseborn.com" target="_blank">AISE BORN</a>" Perry, commissioned for the exterior of the <a href="https://www.akroncivic.com" target="_blank">Akron Civic Theatre</a>, painted last year in Akron, Ohio. It was in the works for more than a year, part of a larger <a href="https://thedevilstrip.com/2020/11/18/muralists-use-life-and-art-to-help-revitalize-downtown-parks/" target="_blank">downtown revitalization project</a> that includes a number of public art commissions from both local and national artists.<div>Aise and I visited Akron for a week last July to get a feel for the area, and although limited by Covid restrictions we also photographed people there as possible subjects for the mural. During that first visit we learned of the city's decline from its manufacturing heyday, but were also struck by its vitality, and the diversity and warmth of the people we met. We were also impressed by lushness of the surrounding nature, with all the giant trees, water, and greenery everywhere. (We even found ourselves experiencing some childlike excitement about seeing fireflies for the first time—so much so they were included as a motif in the background.) We visited local parks, churches, <a href="https://akronartmuseum.org" target="_blank">museums</a>, cemeteries, and landmarks such as the <a href="https://www.summithistory.org/abolitionist-john-brown" target="_blank">John Brown House</a>, all in search of inspiration and a sense of the local history and culture. Aise and myself, having both become fathers fairly recently, felt that imagery celebrating youthful purity and potential would be appropriate for this setting. We photographed a number of people, including a now four year-old girl named Laila that we randomly came across as she was with her parents playing with sticks and rocks at a local park. She ended up being <a href="https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/entertainment/arts/2020/12/26/whos-little-girl-lock-4-mural-shes-4-year-old-laila-akron/4006667001/" target="_blank">the model for the figure of the girl in this mural</a>, while the boy on the right side was modeled after my own toddler son, Max.</div><div>This mural's title, '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_mundi" target="_blank">Axis Mundi</a>', is an ancient Latin term for “axis of the world”—a point where heaven and earth meet. Akron is named after the Greek word for “summit” as it is located at a slightly higher elevation than surrounding areas. The mural is roughly eight stories high, and situated a couple stories directly over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_and_Erie_Canal" target="_blank">Ohio & Erie Canal</a>, a massive engineering work from the early 1800s that connected Akron with Lake Erie. Nearly the entire mural is suspended high above flowing water, in an impressive public space unlike any I've ever painted before. <br />We began painting in late September and worked day and night on the mural for about two months. I was excited and proud to involve and collaborate with my younger crewmate AISE on this—I think this is some of the best public work he's had the opportunity to create so far. During a year characterized by division and fear, of COVID-19 social isolation and racial injustice protests, this mural project was a chance for us to create something positive and beautiful, something that hopefully conveys friendship, mutuality, and youthful innocence. It really felt like we were doing something special and important, channeling a little bit of celestial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Très_Riches_Heures_du_Duc_de_Berry" target="_blank">divinity</a> onto this old brick wall in Ohio. Of course it's impossible to make public art that everyone will connect with or appreciate, but I know we put a massive amount of love and soul into this work and it's bound to retain and transmit at least some of that. I hope that this mural of these two children at play with the cosmos might offer some lasting light, hope, and inspiration.<br /><div><br />Many thanks to everyone who helped make this project possible—my wife and son, AISE and his family, Howard Parr and the team at the <a href="https://www.akroncivic.com" target="_blank">Akron Civic Theatre</a>, special thanks to <a href="https://www.hieronymusobjects.com" target="_blank">Rick and Alita Rogers</a>, extra thanks to Liz Gage, Courtney Cable, <a href="https://www.curatedstorefront.org" target="_blank">Curated Storefront</a>, my brother <a href="https://www.elhoxxoh.com" target="_blank">HOXXOH</a>, Louis Jensen, Matt Jennings, The Akron Civic Theatre Board of Trustees and the '<a href="https://www.akroncivic.com/page/staging-the-future" target="_blank">Staging The Future</a>' capital campaign committee, the Akron Community Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the GAR Foundation, Laila, Monte Vales and Andrea Smith, as well as all the other families who allowed us to photograph them, <a href="https://www.land-studio.org" target="_blank">LAND Studio</a>, <a href="http://janussmallassociates.com" target="_blank">Janus Small</a>, Mike Screwes, The Urban League, John Fiume, <a href="https://www.januarypaints.com" target="_blank">January Paint & Wallpaper</a>, <a href="https://artxlove.com" target="_blank">Mac Love</a>, Beers, <a href="https://www.mustardseedmarket.com" target="_blank">Mustard Seed Market</a>, and all the other people of Akron and Ohio who showed support or kindness.</div></div><div><br /></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMh0pGCwLl2KSDDJTCrW9VYVPjKIjX2tRNQpfF3hlmCqF36caA4VUc_-dYscq-hzs0kfhFOaFOcvPfnO9TaJi16ibg7UBpb7AwabO2Te_-cWjCqWJF3K0n6RD2N2AFFt2YGBQSpLbBudJA/s1600/IMG_3873csm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMh0pGCwLl2KSDDJTCrW9VYVPjKIjX2tRNQpfF3hlmCqF36caA4VUc_-dYscq-hzs0kfhFOaFOcvPfnO9TaJi16ibg7UBpb7AwabO2Te_-cWjCqWJF3K0n6RD2N2AFFt2YGBQSpLbBudJA/s400/IMG_3873csm.jpg" width="323" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It's already been a year since the last one—finally a new print release this Saturday, October 3rd. Purchase info will be posted that day at <a href="http://elmac.net">http://elmac.net</a></div><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div>
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"<b>Sun and Clouds</b>" (gray)<br />Relief print, hand-pulled, edition of 60<br />Signed, titled and numbered by the artist.<br />Four-pull relief print from photopolymer and reduction linocut with split fountain blend roll, on archival French-made Johannot paper, with natural deckled edge along bottom.<br />Printed by master printer Brent Bond at <a href="https://santopress.com">Santo Press</a> in Phoenix, Arizona, using a 1961 <a href="https://santopress.com/about">Vandercook printing press</a>.<br />14 3/4" x 19" paper size<br />(11 5/8" x 15 1/2" printed area)<br /><br />"<b>Sun and Clouds II</b>" (blue)<br />Relief print, hand-pulled, edition of 20<br />Signed, titled and numbered by the artist.<br />Two-pull relief print from photopolymer and reduction linocut, on archival German-made Hahnemühle Copperplate paper.<br />Printed by master printer Brent Bond at Santo Press in Phoenix, Arizona, using a 1961 Vandercook printing press.<br />14 3/4" x 19" paper size<br />(11 5/8" x 15 1/2" printed area)</div><div><br /></div><div>Artist's statement about the work:</div><div>This print edition was adapted from a 2019 drawing of my son when he was not quite a year old. The drawing was inspired by his radiance– that special radiance found in small children that glows with love and joy, and can part the clouds in the sky. Leonard Cohen wrote that "as our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder"– a fundamental part of being an artist is having and maintaining some sense of wonderment at the world around us. Enchantment with the world helps give us purpose and helps keep that best, childlike, part of us alive. Maintenance of this light and wonder can carry us through dark days and serve as a beacon or spark for others.<br />This image hopefully carries along, in some small way, a little bit of that light.<br /><br />“Clearly this music doesn’t sound too much like what’s going on today—war, riots, the stock market getting busted up. And the reason it doesn’t, I realized, is that I’m optimistic. I believe in hope and peace and love. It’s not that I’m blind to what’s going on, but I feel this music is a forward look into what could be a bright future. The philosophy represented in this number, and to a large extent in the album as a whole, is child-like. But not childish. By that I mean there are certain elements of childhood we lose and wish we could have back—purity, spontaneity. When they do return to us, we're at our best. So what I'm telling the world is: 'Speak like a child. Think and feel in terms of hope and the possibilities of making ourselves less impure.' “<br />-Herbie Hancock, 1968<br />(Liner notes for “Speak Like a Child”)</div><div><br /></div>
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Painted this mural at the beginning of the year in downtown Tucson, Arizona, in the heart of the Sonoran Desert. The figure is holding a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro" target="_blank">Saguaro</a> blossom, and is based on my wife. The mural is on the outside of <a href="https://cobraarcadebar.com/" target="_blank">Cobra Arcade Tucson</a>, commissioned by its <a href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/see-el-mac-and-david-choes-medusa-mural-at-cobra-arcade-bar-in-downtown-phoenix-7968214" target="_blank">owner</a> <a href="https://javamagaz.com/?p=6123" target="_blank">Ariel Bracamonte</a>–my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAbFtujQnFo/" target="_blank">compadre</a> and one of the <a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2008/07/car-hood-piece-in-works.html" target="_blank">best people I know</a>.<br />
Tucson has been a special place for me ever since my first visit as a little kid when I caught a sunrise with my parents at Mission San Xavier Del Bac–the same place where I would eventually marry my wife and baptize our son decades later.<br />
In the late 90s and early 00s I painted some murals with <a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2015/05/nuestra-gente-new-mural-in-phoenix.html" target="_blank">NG crew</a> in downtown Tucson including <a href="https://www.graffiti.org/tucson/tucson_2.html" target="_blank">behind the old Chicago Music Store</a>. I remember there was a mural downtown from the early 90s by visiting NYC graffiti OG's Futura, Lady Pink, Lee, Stash, and Chico collaborating with locals <a href="https://mandorascon.com/" target="_blank">Fyce</a>, Such and Tackz, which symbolized to me back then just how hip this sleepy, dusty desert city was.<br />
I associate Tucson with a certain warm spirit of <a href="https://nomoredeaths.org/en/" target="_blank">love</a> and creativity, a tranquil Sonoran vitality, and I hope this mural can capture or transmit some of that desert soul.<br />
Thanks to Ari + the Bracamonte family, and the Cobra Tucson crew for helping make this mural possible, thanks to Kim + Máximo for putting up with me, and thanks to the good people of Tucson.<br />
(Photos 2, 3, 4: Fernando kAZual)MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-78400161232939606612020-05-18T14:35:00.000-07:002020-08-11T22:15:42.737-07:00New EL MAC murals in Miami: 'A Love Supreme (Wynwood Saints)'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These are my first murals in Miami since 2009, and some of the largest and most visible in Wynwood. They're a permanent public art work commissioned by the <a href="https://www.relatedgroup.com/art.html" target="_blank">Related Group</a> through <a href="https://www.thisisprimary.com/" target="_blank">Primary Projects</a> for the <a href="https://www.wynwood25.com/" target="_blank">Wynwood 25</a> building (next to <a href="https://thewynwoodwalls.com/" target="_blank">Wynwood Walls</a> and the <a href="https://museumofgraffiti.com/" target="_blank">Museum of Graffiti</a>). They were created with thousands of spray cans, no painting assistance, and months of long, hot, often rainy or windy nights from dusk until dawn, high up on a swing stage. Every line and pattern that these figures are composed of was spraypainted with the hope that together they might transmit to the viewer some of the love and soul that went into them.<br />
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Returning to Miami for this project was a pretty big deal after having last painted murals in Wynwood with Retna during Art Basel in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CABYNPkh4_7/" target="_blank">2007</a>, <a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-mural-in-miami-with-retna.html" target="_blank">2008</a>, and <a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2009/12/margulies-mural-in-miami.html" target="_blank">2009</a> as part of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/meadaura/2152713628/" target="_blank">Primary Flight</a>. I was very proud of those murals but, after seeing how saturated the area was becoming with what was starting to be labeled "street art", it seemed time for a break. Ten years passed and then this opportunity came along to paint some of the best and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/arts/design/miami-murals-wynwood.html" target="_blank">most visible walls</a> of my career in this place that had, for better or worse, become a world famous epicenter for public art. I was a little hesitant to take on such a massive task around the same time I was becoming a father, but I couldn't say no to such an epic platform. Although there were already a number of art spaces in the Wynwood area when I first painted there in 2007, it was still mostly a blue collar, working class area so I was blown away to see <a href="https://vimeo.com/110682099" target="_blank">how much had changed</a>. I take my responsibility to the communities I make art for seriously and approach every project with conscientiousness, especially so with this project considering the scale, location and context. I wanted to paint something representative of this place, its history, and its people, while conveying strength, dignity, balance, solidarity, and love. To begin, through the assistance of some local friends and contacts including YoungArts, I met and photographed a number of awesome local young folks for references. I eventually ended up painting three: the figure to the left was modeled by a young woman named Mandolina who helps run a nearby community garden, the figure in the middle was modeled by a young ballet dancer named Jamaii, while the figure on the right was modeled by a local Seminole boy named Kyle. While the paintings do carry the likenesses of those three, they've also been generalized in such a way as to resemble many other young people as well. These figures might be seen as either imploring or offering, funereal or uplifting, mournful or hopeful. If nothing else, they portray monumental, everyday saints—prayerful, resilient, and representative of upliftment, beauty, and loving kindness.<br />
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I faced a great deal of stress and difficulties working on this project, including delays that sometimes lasted for weeks due to lift equipment problems, unexpected expenses, persistent rain, heat, and wind, and worst of all long periods of separation from my infant son during his first year of life. There were many challenges, but for the most part I was able to maintain my patience, focus, and joy in my work. I’m thankful for the opportunity, and extremely proud of this project and the tremendous amount of energy, persistence, and sacrifice that went into it.<br />
I strongly feel that the creation of art can be, at its best, a spiritual vocation, a means of responding to the world in service of truth, beauty, and goodness. The artist can be, in the words of John Coltrane, a force which is truly for good. Another great jazz musician, Mary Lou Williams, famously said that she was praying with her fingers when she played, and I approach the act of painting in a similar way—I hope the prayerfulness that went into the creation of these murals shows through in the results.<br />
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Many thanks to the teams at <a href="https://www.relatedgroup.com/" target="_blank">Related Group</a> + <a href="https://www.thisisprimary.com/" target="_blank">Primary Projects</a> for helping make this possible. Thanks to mis amores <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CABYNPkh4_7/" target="_blank">Kim</a> + Máximo, and my right hand man <a href="https://vimeo.com/ericheights" target="_blank">Eric Heights</a>, for hanging in there... Further thanks + shouts to el mero mero JP Pérez, Patti, J. Yormak, <a href="https://eastendcap.com/" target="_blank">East End Capital</a>, Cristina, Books, Sheila, Tamz, Hoxxoh, Veny Zorrilla, Jessica Goldman, Troy Kelley + Wynwood Walls, Mandolina, Jamaii, Kyle, Evan + Chadoe Grant, Breeze, Louis Coupal, Dejha Carrington + <a href="https://www.youngarts.org/" target="_blank">YoungArts</a>, Reggie O'Neal, Axel Void, Alexis Diaz, Reinier Gamboa + Linda, Alan Ket + the Museum of Graffiti, Carlos Mare, Rage Johnson, Atomik, Komik, Typoe, MSG, TCP, InkHeads, Dos Alas, Futura, Muta, Odobo, Michael Vasquez, Jason Joshua + Mango Hill Records, the buena gente at La Fama Cafeteria, Los Bobos, and Zak the Baker, Squirrely Fleetwood, Joseph Treaster, Rose Cromwell, and any others I'm forgetting here.. Much love to all the artists and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/el-mac-mural-wynwood-bc8m5g/" target="_blank">supporters of art</a> in the great city of Miami. Respectful remembrance of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fartparticle/" target="_blank">Ray Brown</a>, RIP<br />
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"What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory... Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape."<br />
-Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers (1965)<br />
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These are my most recent murals for the City of Los Angeles, produced with the support of <a href="https://artsharela.org/" target="_blank">Art Share L.A.</a> and <a href="http://www.metahousing.com/" target="_blank">Meta Housing</a> on the exterior of an affordable housing project in South Central LA, just below the DTLA Fashion District.<br />
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The initial inspiration for the agricultural theme of these murals came from a neighboring community farm run by the <a href="https://allpeoplescc.org/" target="_blank">All Peoples Community Center</a>, <a href="https://rootsforpeace.blog/" target="_blank">Roots For Peace</a> and the <a href="https://rootsforpeace.blog/" target="_blank">American Friends Service Committee</a>.<br />
Farming or gardening imagery can carry an extra significance in this context considering how much of South Central Los Angeles (like many low-income urban areas) lacks easy access to healthy fresh food.<br />
The figure on the left was modeled by Rigoberto Jimenez Oropeza, and the figure on the right was modeled by Ron Finley. Both are Los Angeles residents and both grow food from the soil.<br />
Rigo began his workers' rights activism long ago with the <a href="https://ufw.org/" target="_blank">United Farm Workers</a> after being hospitalized for exposure to pesticides while working in California orange fields. Now in his eighties, he is still stubbornly working the land when not helping out with his son's <a href="https://www.easternprojectsgallery.com/" target="_blank">art gallery</a>.<br />
<a href="http://ronfinley.com/" target="_blank">Ron</a> has become a <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la" target="_blank">prominent and inspiring community leader and advocate for social justice, food justice, and urban farming</a>. He has also been a friend ever since Retna and I met him and his two sons while painting a <a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2009/04/knight-new-mural-with-retna-in-la.html" target="_blank">mural</a> in his South Central neighborhood over a decade ago. I'm grateful for my friendship with Ron and his sons, <a href="http://www.kohshinfinley.com/" target="_blank">Kohshin</a> and <a href="https://www.delfinleyart.com/" target="_blank">Delfin</a>, who are both extremely talented young artists, and it's been an inspiration to witness their development over the years.<br />
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The choice of subjects came about partly in response to our current national (if not global) social and political climate, as well as a more local history of poverty and black-brown conflict in South Central Los Angeles. In these confusing times of demagoguery, racist scapegoating and social division, as wealth has been increasingly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">redistributed upward</a> while the working poor are further disenfranchised, and organized labor has been largely weakened after decades of assault, I feel even more urgency to create conscientious and relatable public art that elevates common working people and promotes ideals of compassion, unity, equity, and interracial solidarity.<br />
I would like to think of these murals as contributing to a proud tradition of humanism and social realist art that promotes the importance and dignity of all ordinary working people.<br />
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This project ended up taking a great deal more time than anticipated, with many late nights working into morning, but I enjoyed the process and am proud of the results. Though at a glance these murals may appear simple and straightforward, a tremendous amount of thought and care went into them. As usual for me, painting these walls was a meditative and devotional labor of love.<br />
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Many thanks to Cheyanne, Liz, and Art Share L.A. + Chris, Frannie, and Meta Housing for making these murals possible, thanks to Ron and Rigo for modeling, thanks to <a href="https://vimeo.com/ericheights" target="_blank">Eric Heights</a> for all his help and late night grilling skills, Josh Rhodes for the gifts, and thanks to everyone else who supported in one way or another.<br />
(1st photo courtesy of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/timjentsch/" target="_blank">Tim Jentsch</a>, 3rd + 4th photos by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ericheights/" target="_blank">Eric Heights</a>)<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a recent mural I painted on the US-Mexico border, commissioned by the <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.gob.mx/sre/en" target="_blank">Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE)</a></span>. It is on a roughly ten-story high water tank in the remote border community of Presidio, Texas, facing its southern neighbor Ojinaga, Chihuahua.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Along <span style="background-color: white;">with two other excellent articles about this project, from John MacCormack for the <a href="https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Border-mural-sends-message-of-motherly-love-12723974.php#photo-15168102" target="_blank">San Antonio Express-News</a> + Bayla Metzger for <a href="http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/presidio-mural-spans-u-s-mexico-border/" target="_blank">Marfa Public Radio</a>, this </span>article written by <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/in-presidio-a-new-public-art-project-crosses-borders/" target="_blank">Sasha von Oldershausen for the Texas Observer</a> describes the project much better than I could:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">I<b>n Presidio, a New Public Art Project Crosses Borders</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>The new mural is a small binational gesture reminding those who reside in the margins that they are not forgotten.</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">On the northern outskirts of Presidio, a series of modest dirt hills offers a view of the small border town delineated by the meandering Rio Grande. Just beyond, the Mexican sister city of Ojinaga — many times bigger than the Texas town — sprawls along the foothills of the Sierrita de Santa Cruz. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">On one side of these crumbling hills is a gridwork of housing for Border Patrol officers, surrounded by chain-link fencing and topped with barbed wire. On the other side of the hills is the city’s water tower, a <a href="https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/rackstraw-downes-texas-hills-short/" target="_blank">lone white tank that juts above an otherwise unassuming and dusty landscape</a>. It is the only apparent landmark in a town whose inhabitants have figured out ways to fit their lives discreetly into the rugged desert landscape. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">A month ago, a face began to appear on the water tank. She emerged over the course of two weeks: a Latina woman, clutching the stem of a red rose in her thick hands. Her brow and cheeks are lined with age. Her gaze, deep but benevolent, looks out beyond the Rio Grande into Mexico. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The sudden appearance of this face felt out of sync with the pace of the town, where not much changes fast. The change was monumental enough to warrant a field trip by Presidio’s elementary school. Each day for a week, teachers paraded their students up the hill to see the face and asked them, “¿Qué piensa? What do you think?”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The mural is a gift from Mexico to the site of its smallest consulate. Amid the hyper-politicized rhetoric that surrounds the border, it was a small binational gesture reminding those who reside in the margins that they are not forgotten.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Mexican government commissioned Los Angeles muralist Miles Mac, known as “El Mac,” whose work has appeared in the border cities of Juárez and El Paso, as well as myriad other places across the globe, from New York City to Agdz, Morocco. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">El Mac had never worked on a federally sponsored project, and if he had concerns about it feeling propagandist, those fears were immediately assuaged. “It was the kind of project I would do for myself anyway,” said El Mac, who often paints with an implicit social message in mind. “No part of it ever felt uncomfortable to me and I think it was clear that everyone behind it had good intentions. This is a general gesture of goodwill.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">He added, “I think they were making a point that even the smallest and most remote town is still important and still considered, still relevant.” </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">El Mac’s large-scale murals — composed of circles and lines that register as realist portraits from a distance — often feature everyday people. In El Paso and Juárez, he painted the faces of those who had lost family members to violence. “I paint regular people, normal people, and that’s something that I’ve been doing for a long time,” El Mac said.“The work isn’t super explicit. I’m not painting works with the intention of hitting people over the head with some ideology.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Some residents recognized the face on the water tower as that of Linda Lujan, a 62-year-old Presidio resident who owns and operates a small secondhand shop just a stone’s throw from the International Port of Entry. Originally from Mexico, she emigrated to the United States more than 30 years ago to work and put her children through college. In many ways, her face was meant to be more broadly representative of the average person who resides in this border region. “It’s definitely based on her,” El Mac said, “but it’s a composite.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Others have come up with their own interpretations of the image. “I see my wife’s mother, I see one of my aunts, I see one of my old teachers,” said city administrator Joe Portillo. “More than anything, I see a mother. They are the glue and they are the love.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">“It’s a beauty kind of like the desert itself,” said the town’s mayor, John Ferguson. “This shows somebody who probably worked hard her whole life, had kids, raised a family.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">El Mac spent two weeks in Presidio, interviewing and photographing possible subjects. He might have chosen a more politicized subject, and for a moment he considered painting two female relatives of Esequiel Hernández Jr., the 18-year-old who was mistakenly gunned down in 1997 by Marines stationed near the border as part of a drug reconnaissance mission. Ultimately, he chose Lujan, whose warmth offered relief from the caustic desert. “She had these warm cheeks,” he said. “She looked like she’s used to smiling.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">El Mac would experience the kind of kindness Lujan seemed to represent throughout his stay in Presidio. On days he spent painting for 10 or 12 hours at a time, perched some 100 feet off the ground in a mechanical lift that quaked against the howling spring winds, staff from Don Jose Panaderia, the local bakery, delivered pumpkin empanadas in a basket rigged with a pulley system. “That mural was fueled by those pumpkin empanadas,” he said. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The face on the water tank is visible from both sides of the border, a reminder of what many in the town already know to be self-evident: that Presidio is inextricably tied to its Mexican neighbor, and that its well-being is rooted in their mutual goodwill."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Many thanks to the <a href="https://www.gob.mx/sre/en" target="_blank">Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE)</a> and Mónica Cortina Mariscal for making this project happen, and many additional thanks to Guido Mascherpa, Eduardo Romero, and <a href="https://vimeo.com/ericheights" target="_blank">Eric Heights</a> for all the assistance and good times. They helped rig a protective structure for the lift basket out of cardboard, duct tape, pvc pipes and canvas--a small Mexi/Italo/Salvi/US engineering project that was crucial in helping to block the constant strong winds there and ultimately made the painting possible (it also included a pulley system that allowed burritos and empanadas to be hoisted up to me during my long, sometimes 14-hour painting shifts). Extra thanks and shout-outs to the <a href="https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/presidio/" target="_blank">Mexican consulate in Presidio</a>, Mariana Da Silva, Austin Saya & their <a href="https://www.charlottebobcats.com/" target="_blank">team</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Don-Jos%C3%A9-Bakery-335671049927385/?rf=865601640174520" target="_blank">Don Jose Panaderia</a>, <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-bean-cafe-presidio" target="_blank">the Bean Cafe</a>, <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/oasis-restaurant-presidio" target="_blank">Oasis Restaurant</a>, <a href="http://www.threepalmsinn.com/" target="_blank">Three Palms Inn</a>, Enrique Madrid & the family of <a href="https://splinternews.com/the-tragic-story-of-a-texas-teen-and-the-marines-who-ki-1795441102" target="_blank">Esequiel Hernandez Jr.</a>, Brad Newton, Terry Bishop, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/john.ferguson.549" target="_blank">John Ferguson</a>, Trisha Runyan, Linda Luján, and to everyone else in Presidio who showed support or kindness. Presidio/Ojinaga, in all its remoteness and smallness, felt important, familiar and alive--I'm grateful for my experience there, and the opportunity to share my art with its people.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">'Mural for My Father' is the title of my most recent mural in Europe, commissioned by the City of Antwerp for <a href="https://www.visitantwerpen.be/nl/barok" target="_blank">Antwerpen Barok 2018</a>, and the <a href="https://stadantwerpen.prezly.com/baroque-murals-vier-kunstenaars-vier-stijlen-vier-barokmotieven-vier-muurschilderingen" target="_blank">Baroque Murals project</a> curated by Yvon Tordoir, part of Antwerp’s yearlong celebration of Baroque art and culture. This piece is an interpretation of a depiction of Saint Joseph from the mid-1600s by Flemish painter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelina_Wautier" target="_blank">Michaelina Wautier</a> (this <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelina_Wautier#/media/File:Michaelina_Woutiers_-_St._Joseph_GG_376x.jpg" target="_blank">painting</a> is currently on display in an <a href="https://www.mas.be/en/michaelina" target="_blank">exhibition</a> of her work at the <a href="https://www.mas.be/en" target="_blank">MAS museum</a> in Antwerp).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Belgium is a special piece for me for a number of reasons. The first time I came to Belgium was in 2003 to participate in a group show titled Young Primitives with the nearby <a href="https://www.visitbruges.be/musea" target="_blank">Groeningemuseum</a> in Brugge, where a handful of other aerosol/graffiti artists and myself painted <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BKgXi2fAZbR/?hl=en&taken-by=mac_arte" target="_blank">pieces</a> around the old city that were inspired by the museum’s collection of work by Flemish Primitive painters. This was a hugely impactful project for me and made me fall in love with Belgium, so I was excited to return to Flanders for another project with a similar theme. This is also a continuation of my finding inspiration in the work of often underrepresented women painters of the past—including my ‘<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Mb3z72N1qG/?hl=en&taken-by=mac_arte" target="_blank">Phoenix Goddess</a>’ mural painted in 2004 in downtown Phoenix, which was inspired by an <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elisa_De_Gamond_-_Nymphe_%C3%A9gar%C3%A9e_J1.jpg" target="_blank">1826 painting</a> by Belgian artist Elisa de Gamond.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">'Mural for My Father' is located in the heart of Antwerp, between the Rubens Museum and the 14th-century Cathedral of Our Lady, and this area is filled with <a href="https://www.topa.be/en/antwerp/straatbeelden/" target="_blank">small statues</a> of religious figures (mostly Madonnas) affixed to buildings overlooking street corners. I was inspired and impressed by these, seeing them not only as a beautiful form of public art but indicative of an exuberant cultural embrace of a Mother archetype--seemingly everywhere you go in Old Antwerp you are watched over by symbols of maternal benevolence. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Considering the abundance of religious imagery in this place it felt appropriate to paint Saint Joseph, who is the patron saint of Belgium, as well as of fathers, expectant mothers, families, workers, and immigrants. He is traditionally portrayed in Western art holding lilies, which signify purity, though for many they might have more funerary associations. In the current context of declining labor rights, growing xenophobia, and migration crises around the world, I think even this fairly traditional representation of this patron saint of workers and immigrants holding lilies can take on an extra weight. However my primary intent with this piece was a little bit more personal. I've painted so many symbolist pieces honoring mothers, this might be my first large scale work honoring fathers, and this one is modeled after mine. I have been immensely fortunate to have a kind, loving, intelligent, hard-working father to exemplify for me an ideal of what a man and father can be. This mural was produced with great love as a dedication to him, as well as good fathers everywhere. (The title is a nod to one of his favorite songs, Horace Silver's '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWeXOm49kE0" target="_blank">Song for My Father</a>' from 1965.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">This project was made possible thanks to <a href="https://www.antwerpen.be/nl/home" target="_blank">Stad Antwerpen</a>, <a href="http://www.antwerpenkunstenstad.be/" target="_blank">Antwerpen Kunstenstad</a>, Yvon '<a href="https://www.instagram.com/riseone_ak/" target="_blank">Rise</a>' </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Tordoir + <a href="https://www.aerosolkings.com/evenementen/baroque-murals-2018/" target="_blank">Aerosol Kings</a>, Lieselotte De Beer, and Dré Demet. Additional thanks to the many kind people of Antwerp who showed support and appreciation, including the mystery donor who left that impressive bag of snacks for me!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Photos are my own except (from the top) #3: Manuela Geypen, #8:<a href="http://www.jasperleonard.be/" target="_blank">Jasper Léonard</a></span></div>
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<span title="Edited">‘Sophie Holding the World Together’, 2017<br />Mural commissioned by the <a href="https://sjmusart.org/" target="_blank">San Jose Museum of Art</a>, in collaboration with <a href="http://www.the-propeller-group.com/" target="_blank">The Propeller Group</a>.</span><br />
<span title="Edited"><br />In
these times when fear, inequity and divisiveness are so prevalent, this
mural is intended to convey hope and empathy. The figure is based on an
inspiring young activist named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Cruz" target="_blank">Sophie Cruz</a>, who represents mixed-status
families and advocates for immigration reform in the US. <br />When
I met Sophie to shoot reference photos of her I asked if there was
anything she wanted to hold for the photographs, and she came back
holding a globe. This seemed perfect, while the lotus was added to
symbolize the beauty that can grow from humble origins. .<br />I’d
like to thank everyone who helped make this mural happen, and everyone
who came by offering positive feedback. The response from the people in
San Jose was some of the most encouraging and supportive I’ve received
anywhere, I’m very grateful.</span><br />
<span title="Edited"><br />Many
thanks to <a href="http://www.tuanandrewnguyen.com/" target="_blank">Tuan Andrew Nguyen</a>, Matt Lucero, The Propeller Group, Lauren
Dickens and the San José Museum of Art, <a href="https://www.empiresevenstudios.com/" target="_blank">Empire Seven Studios</a>, Will
Moran, the <a href="https://www.cdm.org/" target="_blank">Children’s Discovery Museum</a>, The <a href="https://knightfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Knight Foundation</a>,
<a href="http://www.universityart.com/" target="_blank">University Art</a>, Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell, Beverly and Peter
Lipman, Lubliner, Dipti and Rakesh Mathur, Ian Reinhard, and SGSR.
Additional thanks to Sophie + su familia, <a href="https://vimeo.com/ericheights" target="_blank">Eric Heights</a>, <a href="http://taskforce.pr/" target="_blank">Yosi Sergant</a>,
<a href="https://defineamerican.com/" target="_blank">Define American</a>, Yosimar Reyes, Bích Cao, and everyone else who helped or
showed love.</span><br />
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<span title="Edited">“No Te Rindas<br />Esta es la Hora y el Mejor Momento/<br />Don't Give Up<br />This is the Hour and the Best Moment/<br />Đừng Bỏ Cuộc<br />Bây giờ là phút giây và khoảnh khắc tuyệt vời nhất”<br />(-M. Benedetti)</span><br />
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New print release this Tuesday, January 23rd. Purchase info will be posted sometime after noon Pacific Standard Time at <a href="http://elmac.net/">http://elmac.net</a><br />
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Print details:<br />
<b>Purgatory</b><br />
Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist.<br />
Hand-pulled serigraph by master printer Tony Clough at <a href="http://seriopress.com/">Serio Press</a> in Pasadena, California. Printed in five colors/layers.<br />
Printed
on acid-free, 100% cotton, 290 gsm, Coventry Rag paper.<br />
18.25in x 20.25in paper size<br />
(16.25in x 17in printed area)<br />
This print has the same exact dimensions as the '<a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2015/08/new-print-los-campesinos.html" target="_blank">Los Campesinos</a>' prints from 2015.<br />
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There are two slightly different color editions of this print:<br />
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Purgatory:<br />
edition of 47, darkest brushwork layer printed in black<br />
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Purgatory II:<br />
edition of 25, darkest brushwork layer printed in dark teal blue <br />
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Artist's statement about the work:<br />
'Across ancient cultures from around the world there are concepts
of a period of postmortem atonement, with associated traditions of prayers and offerings made for the souls of the deceased so as to
relieve their expiatory suffering. This artwork is also, in its own way, a similar kind of prayer or offering.<br />
In these times of fear, confusion, nativism, and worsening inequity as more and more wealth is distributed from the many to a few, I painted this piece partly as a meditative gesture of support for the marginalized and scapegoated amongst us who live and work in a metaphorical state of purgatory.<br />
"As brothers in the fight for equality... Our separate struggles are really one -- a struggle for freedom, for dignity and for humanity. You and your valiant fellow workers have demonstrated your commitment to righting grievous wrongs forced upon exploited people. We are together with you in spirit and in determination that our dreams for a better tomorrow will be realized." - Martin Luther King, Jr., in a 1966 telegram sent to UFW leader Cesar ChavezMAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-18346371230194667892017-12-30T10:01:00.000-08:002020-06-10T11:15:05.453-07:00"Tower of Songs" - Leonard Cohen mural for the City of Montreal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'Tower of Songs' is a mural homage to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv4J7sID3Pk" target="_blank">Leonard Cohen</a> and 21-story high monument to love made in collaboration with Montreal-based mural organization <a href="https://www.mumtl.org/en/projects/tower-song-el-mac-gene-pendon-2017/" target="_blank">MU</a>, Montreal artist <a href="https://artpublicmontreal.ca/en/artiste/pendon-gene/" target="_blank">Gene Pendon</a>, and Cohen's estate. This mural was a little bit of a departure for me in a few ways but I'm extremely proud of it. Although I generally try to avoid painting celebrities, I am a fan of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrN7qmkdvx4" target="_blank">Cohen</a> and couldn't pass up the opportunity to honor this artist who embodied a spirit of genuine humility, sincerity, and profound love for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gceYKMRWNBw" target="_blank">humanity</a> that is not usually associated with stars of his stature.</div>
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MU and Gene Pendon first brought up the possibility of collaborating on a Leonard Cohen tribute mural in Cohen's hometown back in 2013, prior to the occasion of his 80th birthday, but the project didn't gain full momentum until after Cohen's passing in November of 2016. The scale and prominence of this project required a great deal of time and planning, and involved the collaboration and support of many people. I normally work from my own reference photos, but since that wasn't possible in this case, the design was based off of a photo shot by Mr.Cohen's daughter, Lorca. This is one of the largest murals I've ever painted, and it required long nights of sometimes 12-16 hour sessions–painting just one ear or finger would require days of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVegcCcMNS4" target="_blank">slow and steady work</a> to complete. Montrealers can be very protective of Leonard Cohen, though I do remember being a little surprised early on in the process by <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/leonard-cohen-and-a-tale-of-two-montreal-murals/article36434154/#comments" target="_blank">some</a> <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/a-leonard-cohen-mural-monstrosity/article35453281/#comments" target="_blank">criticism</a> for the mural's massive size and location. However, since its <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/leonard-cohen-crescent-mural-1.4392449" target="_blank">completion</a>, the mural seems to have been largely <a href="https://www.canadapost.ca/shop/collectors/stamps-and-collectibles-by-year/2019/leonard-cohen/p-414118111.jsf?execution=e1s1" target="_blank">embraced</a> and the response has been overwhelmingly positive for which I'm grateful. I'd like to think that the devotional amount of love, labor, and soul that went into this mural was, in the end, clearly visible. Every spraypainted line and circle that the artwork is composed of required a great deal of patience, dedication, and almost prayerful intent–something I'd like to think the mural's soulful subject might appreciate. </div>
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I also hope that this mural serves as a tribute to not only a great artist and the love associated with him, but to a place that supports and values its artists as much as Montreal does. </div>
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Many thanks to everyone who helped make this project happen: the entire MU team, Gene Pendon, Elizabeth-Ann Doyle, Michel de la Chenelière, Leonard Cohen Estate, Conseil des Arts de Montreal, Fondation de la Chenelière, Concordia University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Timbercreek, Brian Levitt, Jonathan Wener, Marcel Elefant, Sari Hornstein, Rossy Family Foundation, J. Gerry Shapiro, Murray Dalfen, Louis-Nicholas Coupal, and the City of Montreal. Special thanks to my right hand man Eric Heights. R.I.P. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mrcan_do/" target="_blank">SCAN</a></div>
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Photos #1, 8, 12, 13: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/obousquet/" target="_blank">Olivier Bousquet</a>, #3-7: <a href="https://vimeo.com/ericheights" target="_blank">Eric</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ericheights/" target="_blank">Heights</a> </div>
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Bon article en français ici: <a href="https://urbania.ca/article/le-poete-sur-le-mur/" target="_blank">'Le Poète Sur Le Mur'</a></div>
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“The world is all forgetting, and the heart is a rage of
directions, but your name unifies the heart, and the world is lifted
into its place.”<br />
-Leonard Cohen, ‘Book of Mercy’MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-76450184603646800722017-11-12T15:49:00.000-08:002018-03-22T18:35:44.440-07:00New mural in Los Angeles: 'The Mother Creator II'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span title="Edited">More devotional work for
the great city of Los Angeles, painted last Summer. Putting some serious time, soul and
energy out there for the people; striving to create good, uplifting
public art in these strange, troubled times. This is a companion to my 2016 mural for the City of Montreal, <a href="https://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2017/01/la-mere-creatricethe-mother-creator-new.html" target="_blank">'La Mère Créatrice'</a> -my homage to feminine
creative force. This one's a tribute to artistic mothers, and their
capacity to not only make people but art as well. I am an artist largely
thanks to the influence of my mother, who is a great, inspiring
painter. I've benefited from a lifetime of great conversations about art with her. Also, my <a href="https://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2016/08/spark-of-divinity-new-mural-in-sedona.html" target="_blank">mother-in-law</a>, who passed away recently, though she
probably wouldn't have considered herself an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/2o6y6cgtKr/?hl=en&taken-by=kimberz_" target="_blank">artist</a> was as prolific and
creative as any. The figure depicted in this mural is based on my
reference photos of Jane Choe, the fiery artistic mother of my friend
David Choe. It was a pleasure working with my talented young crewmate,
brother, and local neighborhood resident <a class="notranslate" href="https://www.instagram.com/aiseborn/">Aise Born</a> who assisted with the extra Alphonse <a href="http://www.muchafoundation.org/" target="_blank">Mucha</a>-inspired acrylic embellishment on the halo designs.</span>MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-39163076426886899812017-07-19T13:37:00.002-07:002017-07-19T14:45:35.292-07:00New EL MAC prints: 'Winter in America'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New print release this Thursday, July 20th. Purchase info will be posted at a random time at <a href="http://elmac.net/">http://elmac.net</a><br />
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Print details:<br />
<b>Winter in America</b><br />
Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist.<br />
Hand-pulled serigraph by master printer Tony Clough at <a href="http://seriopress.com/">Serio Press</a> in Pasadena, California. Printed in two colors, the linework was printed in four layers to create a slight embossed effect.<br />
Printed on acid-free, 100% cotton, 330 gsm, Italian Magnani Revere paper with one natural deckled edge along the bottom of the print.<br />
18.25in x 20.25in paper size<br />
(16.25in x 17in printed area)<br />
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Winter in America:<br />
edition of 48, dark red on bright red/vermilion<br />
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Winter in America II:<br />
edition of 8, dark blue on bright red/vermilion<br />
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Winter in America III:<br />
edition of 8, black on cobalt blue<br />
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Artist's statement about the work:<br />
'It seems that much of this country, if not the world, has been experiencing a growing climate of fear and confusion. Daily tragedies overwhelm and desensitize as we grow accustomed to hearing constant reports of killings by terrorists, criminals, and police. We face obscene and ever-worsening economic inequality alongside countless social and environmental problems. A dismal and surreal political atmosphere have contributed to a collective feeling of frustration and powerlessness.<br />
I started working on this portrait of a woman in despair late last year as a response. This piece is also an homage to the great German social realist <a href="http://www.kollwitz.de/en/default.aspx">Käthe Kollwitz</a>, who was known for her melancholy drawings and prints depicting the struggles and suffering of the working class from poverty and war. She was born 150 years ago in July of 1867, and her work is still just as powerful and relevant today. The figure was modeled after my wife's grandmother, and like most of my paintings it was not intended as a specific portrait of just one person but rather a representation of many people. It is a simple, direct expression of grief and fatigue in troubled times.'<br />
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"It is mid-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zKdIcOV5s">winter in America</a>; a man-made season of shattered dreams and shocked citizens, fumbling and frustrated beneath the crush of greed of corporate monsters and economic manipulators gone wild (...)<br />
We must all do what we can for each other to weather this blizzard. Now more than ever all the family must be together; to comfort, to protect, to guide, to survive..."<br />
-Gil Scott-Heron (1975)MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-8858033669937035752017-01-06T14:40:00.000-08:002017-01-06T14:47:48.298-08:00"La Mère Créatrice/The Mother Creator" : New mural for the City of Montreal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my most recent mural for the great city of Montreal. It is a symbolist homage to feminine beauty and creative force as represented by a figure that can be seen as a sort of fertility goddess wielding a glowing paintbrush, emanating light amongst verdant, leafy growth. As with most of my work this mural was a devotional labor of love and neurotic perfectionism.<br />
While procreativity is generally seen as a feminine characteristic, creativity is often perceived as <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-creativity-bias-against-women/" target="_blank">intrinsically masculine</a>, and one doesn't need to be an art historian to recognize male domination of the visual arts throughout history. However, thanks to the early influence of my exceptionally talented and inspirational <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/ZPoZDft1uL/" target="_blank">artist mother</a>, I've always taken for granted the tremendous dual capacity in women for both creativity and maternity. Thus, from my own perspective, woman is truly the greatest creator of all and this piece speaks to that.<br />
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This project was initiated by <a href="https://artgangmontreal.com/" target="_blank">Artgang Galerie</a> and made possible by the public art program of the <a href="http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/" target="_blank">Ville de Montréal</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/arr_rosemontPP/" target="_blank">l'Arrondissement Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie</a>, la <a href="http://maplaza.ca/en/" target="_blank">Société de Développement Commercial de la Plaza St-Hubert</a>, and <a href="http://medleysimplemalt.com/" target="_blank">Le Medley Simple Malt</a>. Many thanks to my good friend Louis of Artgang Galerie for a decade so far of friendship and support. Thanks to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_ericajuliet_/" target="_blank">Erica</a> for modeling. Additional thanks to Valérie, <a href="http://www.kwest.tv/" target="_blank">Kwest</a>, Louis-V, and all the locals who offered so much positive feedback and encouragement. Additional thanks to poutine for sustaining me on a few long cold nights..<br />
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Short video below by Eric Heights.<br />
Music: 'Pacification' by La Nouvelle Frontière, recorded in Montreal in 1970<br />
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New prints from <a href="http://santopress.com/">Santo Press</a> in Scottsdale, Arizona:<br />
Peyote Blossoms is a six-color relief print from photopolymer plate and multi-block linocut. Produced in an edition of 45, it is printed on 17.5" x 13.5" Arches Johannot 240 gsm paper. Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist. $300 with free domestic shipping.<br />
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Peyote Blossoms II is a single color relief print from photopolymer plate. Produced in an edition of 15, it is printed in dark black-brown on 16.5" x 13.5" Hahnemuhle Copperplate warm white 300 gsm paper. Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist. $150 with free domestic shipping.<br />
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Both editions are printed on soft papers to create a heavy embossing effect.<br />
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One print per customer. First come, first served.<br />
Call or email to place order: (480)242-1592 brent@santopress.com<br />
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MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-42647237561786917122016-10-26T15:06:00.000-07:002016-10-26T15:07:14.386-07:00"Native Son (This Saint Floyd)" : Mural for the Manitou Art Center, Colorado<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a mural I painted over the Summer, commissioned for The <a href="http://www.manitouartcenter.org/" target="_blank">Manitou Art Center</a> (The MAC) in Manitou Springs, Colorado. The mural is a collaboration with my good friend <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fuse_won/" target="_blank">FUSE</a>, a Los Angeles graffiti veteran who began painting in the 1980s with AWR crew before relocating to Colorado in the 90s. </div>
The mural is based on my photos of legendary and reclusive local artist <a href="http://www.tunsonart.com/" target="_blank">Floyd Tunson</a> (born 1947), who had a <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/2012/12/07/floyd-tunsons-colorado-springs-retrospective-art-exhibit-offers-wild-ride-through-four-decades-of-troubled-history/" target="_blank">retrospective at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center</a> in 2013, a couple years before my own <a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2015/11/aerosol-exalted-museum-exhibition-in.html" target="_blank">exhibition there last year</a>. Tunson is a Colorado native who has been creating art in his Manitou Springs studio for over 30 years. It was a pleasure getting to know him, and I would consider him one of the most inspiring and interesting people I've met. I recognize in him a deep love for creation, experimentation, and a certain shared philosophy that art and life are inseparable.<br />
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Many thanks to FUSE & the Masters Family, Floyd & Flo, The Manitou Art Center, Natalie Johnson, Joy Armstrong, Don Goede and all the kind people of Colorado Springs & Manitou Springs who supported with such tremendous positivity. This was one of the most beautiful and welcoming places I've painted.<br />
Thanks as well to the <a href="http://www.beevradenburgfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Bee Vradenburg Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.gazettecharities.org/" target="_blank">Gazette Charities</a>, the <a href="http://www.manitouspringsgov.com/" target="_blank">City of Manitou Springs</a>, <a href="http://www.theharveyfinancialgroup.com/" target="_blank">Ben Harvey Financial Group</a>, <a href="http://manitousprings.com/" target="_blank">Manitou Springs Real Estate</a>, <a href="http://www.advoutwest.com/" target="_blank">Adventures Out West</a>, <a href="http://www.cocitypaint.com/" target="_blank">City Paint</a>, & <a href="http://www.sunwaterspa.com/" target="_blank">SunWater Spa</a>MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-81125705791662668512016-08-04T15:00:00.002-07:002016-08-04T15:00:30.334-07:00"Spark of Divinity": New mural in Sedona for Whole Foods<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a mural I just recently painted in Sedona, Arizona, commissioned by <a href="http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/" target="_blank">Whole Foods</a> for their store there. The embracing figures are based on my mother-in-law and her granddaughter. I hope this mural might convey some sense of the positive influence of familial love and joy, as I've seen the impact of these on my mother-in-law while she has been going through cancer treatment the last few years. The mural is also a sort of southwestern homage to one of my favorite artists, the great Austrian symbolist painter <a href="http://www.klimt.com/" target="_blank">Gustav Klimt</a>. The mural is based on a section of Klimt's <a href="http://www.klimt.com/en/gallery/beethoven-frieze/details-beethovenfires_total.dhtml" target="_blank">Beethoven Frieze</a>, from 1902, which was inspired by a Beethoven symphony from 1824, which was inspired by a Friedrich Schiller poem from 1785. That poem, the infamous 'Ode To Joy', begins with the line: 'Joy, beautiful spark of divinity...'<br />
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Thanks to my good friend and Arizona aerosol pioneer <a href="http://mandorascon.com/" target="_blank">Mando Rascón</a> for his help with the background designs.<br />
Thanks to Whole Foods and <a href="http://www.dcorum.com/" target="_blank">Carlo Carbajal</a> for making such a cool public art project possible.<br />
Thanks to Saichai, Madeleine, Kim, Jorge Bracamonte, <a href="http://www.picobatik.com/" target="_blank">Peter Votichenko</a> & the Votichenko family, Marisa Aragon, Fernando Ramos, Corey @<a href="http://www.howardsace.com/" target="_blank">ACE</a>, <a href="http://www.sedonatamaliza.com/" target="_blank">Tamaliza</a>, the good people of Sedona, and anyone else that provided encouragement or support.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I spent a couple weeks in Morocco recently to paint some small murals as part of the <a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2015/12/thread-of-life-new-mural-in-phnom-penh.html" target="_blank">Igloo Hong project</a> (along with an all star team of artists including <a href="http://davidchoe.com/" target="_blank">David Choe</a>, <a href="http://www.andrewhem.com/" target="_blank">Andrew Hem</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aaronhorkey/?hl=en" target="_blank">Aaron Horkey</a>, <a href="http://mars-1.com/" target="_blank">Mars 1</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/esao/" target="_blank">Esao Andrews</a>, & DVS1)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first mural, painted in Agdz (southeastern Morocco)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, is outside the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CasbahDesArts/" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Casbah des Arts</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, and is a portrait of Mohamed Ait El Caid ( محمد ايت القيد ). He is a 92 year old man who lives next door to the mural. He is a respected local figure, who once had the first radio in Agdz and would also receive foreign newspapers so he could share the news with local residents. I was impressed with his willingness to be photographed and painted by a strange foreigner </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second mural, also in Agdz, is based on images of my cat, and is painted on a centuries-old mudbrick </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasbah" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">kasbah</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. One can clearly see a great </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_cats" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">appreciation for cats</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> throughout Morocco. There is a story about the Prophet Muhammad having such affection for cats that he once cut off the sleeve of his robe so as to not disturb his cat, Muezza, who was sleeping on it. Agdz also means 'resting place', so painting a sleeping cat seemed appropriate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The third wall is further east in Merzouga, at the edge of the Sahara, near the border with Algeria. Andrew Hem painted the background designs for this one. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is based on my photos of Hssain Ahnana ( حساين اهنانا ) who comes from a lineage of Sahrawi nomads and now owns the camping ground (</span><a href="http://secretdusahara.com/" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Secret du Sahara</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">) where the mural was painted. He is painted wearing his '</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagelmust" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">cheche</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">', which is a traditional indigo-dyed head wrap worn by indigenous North African </span><a href="https://intercontinentalcry.org/free-people-the-imazighen-of-north-africa/" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Amazigh</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">/Tuareg/Berber people for protection from the harsh sun and sand. The Tuareg have been known as the 'blue men of the desert' for this. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Having grown up primarily in another desert (Sonoran) on the other side of the planet, it was fascinating to come to the Saharan Desert and see some of the environmental and cultural parallels, along with the local adaptations for desert life. I hope to make it back someday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many thanks to the good people of Morocco, the <a href="http://www.tdycfoundation.org/" target="_blank">David Young Choe Foundation</a> + the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Igloo-Hong-1740208576198059/" target="_blank">Igloo Hong</a> team: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/davidchoe1" target="_blank">Dave</a>, <a href="http://mattrevelli.com/" target="_blank">Matt</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jy.ah.min/" target="_blank">Jy-Ah</a>, <a href="http://www.karimnabil.com/" target="_blank">Karim</a>, <a href="http://www.sprinklessparklesandkankles.com/Home.html" target="_blank">Jason</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/pacoraterta" target="_blank">Paco</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/stevieerana" target="_blank">Steve</a>, Soufian, and everyone/anyone else that helped out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Photos by me except:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2,10-12 by Matt Revelli</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6,16 by Dave Choe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9 by Jy-Ah Min</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">13,15,21 by Paco Raterta</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a new mural commissioned by the <a href="http://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/art/current" target="_blank">Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum</a> in Mesa (east Phoenix), Arizona. The mural is painted on a concrete exterior wall of the museum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The image is based on my photos of Karen Bracamonte, an immigrant from Guatemala who is married to one of my closest friends. At the time of the reference shoot Karen was roughly seven months pregnant, so in a way, this painting depicts not only her but her baby as well (my soon-to-be godson). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was honored to paint for this museum something that can hopefully be seen as beautiful and affirming of love, life, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Pearce" target="_blank">diversity</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My good friend </span><a href="http://www.instagram.com/mandorascon/" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Mando Rascón</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, longtime Mesa resident and one of the </span><a href="http://www.phxtaco.com/the-life-art-of-mando-rascon-por-vida/" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">most important graffiti artists in Phoenix</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> since the early-90s, assisted by painting some of the background designs at the top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many thanks to Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Tiffany Fairall, </span><a href="http://frankgonzales.net/home.html" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Frank Gonzales</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, my compadres Karen and </span><a href="http://cobraarcadebar.com/" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Ari Bracamonte</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, Niba DelCastillo, Mando, and anyone else that </span><a href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/el-mac-on-his-new-two-story-mural-at-mesa-arts-center-inspiration-and-collaboration-8139530" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">supported</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> or helped make this possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Aerosol Exalted", my museum exhibition from the <a href="http://www.csfineartscenter.org/exhibits/el-mac-aerosol-exalted/" target="_blank">Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center</a> last year will be traveling to Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum. <a href="https://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/art/exhibits/el-mac-aerosol-exalted" target="_blank">The show will be up May 13- August 7</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Photos 2-5, 9, 10 by <a href="http://www.instagram.com/niba13/" target="_blank">Niba DelCastillo</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Aside from being a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_(film)" target="_blank">Mecca</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_Art" target="_blank">graffiti artists everywhere</a>, the New York City subway transports an</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> endless flow of humanity that makes it truly one of my favorite places to draw people. There is a vibrant diversity hosted in its aged vascular system that is unlike that of any other public transportation system I know of. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These are some subway sketches from last year when I was in town working on '</span><a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2016/02/el-regalo-magico-new-mural-in-nyc-with.html" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">El Regalo Mágico</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'. Although I usually finish the drawings later, I love the immediacy and challenge of trying to discreetly capture as much as I can of these </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/138555347" target="_blank">fleeting moments in time</a> with pencil and paper</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. These are the 'successes' -what I'm not showing are all the drawings that were interrupted or never completed because somebody either woke up, moved too much, or got off the train.</span>MAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952772284313527208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4877220854778102963.post-26654549697780464902016-03-23T15:18:00.001-07:002016-04-07T13:33:53.271-07:00"Enduring Spell" : New mural for the University of California, San Diego<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a new mural commissioned by the <a href="http://ucsd.edu/">University of California, San Diego</a>. The mural is titled "An Enduring Spell" and is located at the interior courtyard of Argo Hall, on <a href="http://revelle.ucsd.edu/">UC San Diego's Revelle College</a> campus. The namesake of the college is the late oceanographer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Revelle">Roger Revelle</a>, one of the first scientists to study climate change:<br /><br />The ocean holds me in an enduring spell. Part of the spell comes from mystery – the fourfold mystery of the shoreline, the surface, the horizon, and the timeless motion of the sea. At the horizon, where my line of sight touches the edge of the great globe itself, I watch ships slowly disappear, first the hulls then the tall masts, bound on voyages to unknown ports 10,000 miles away. From beyond the horizon come the waves that break rhythmically on the beach, sounding now loud, now soft, as they did long before I was born and as they will in the far future. The restless, ever-changing ocean is timeless on the scale of my life, and this also is a mystery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Roger Revelle, 1969</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The majority of my life so far has been spent in cities either by the Pacific Ocean or in the Sonoran Desert, and I think my familiarity with the two environments and their contrasts has instilled a deep appreciation in me for both. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ocean, with all its unexplored depths, can inspire us to ponder the immensity of this world and our place in it. Our smallness next to the ocean demands our humility and respect. The ocean allows life, sustains our existence, and so we love it and are indebted to it, forever connected to it.<br />This sense of fascination and connection with the sea was my inspiration for this work<br /><br />This and my <a href="http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/2015/08/ars-et-scientia-new-mural-in-boston-for.html">mural for Northeastern University</a> in Boston last year were both important projects for me, as one of my motivations for painting public art is to uplift and inspire others the way I was uplifted and inspired by great art when I was young. Painting murals for learning institutions is a chance to create art that will become part of the landscape for thousands of students, and I am grateful for these opportunities to impart some artistic soul in such important places.<br /><br />Many thanks to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_San_Diego">UCSD</a>, <a href="http://emilydesai.com/">Emily Desai</a>, <a href="https://act.ucsd.edu/directory/search?jlinkevent=Redirect&entry=juli+smith">Juli Smith</a>, and anyone else that helped make this possible.<br />Photos by <a href="http://vimeo.com/ericheights">Eric Heights</a></span><br />
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