Artist John Baldessari, 85, in his Venice studio. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) By Deborah Vankin Contact Reporter Saturday, May 20, 2017 Three words: John Baldessari’s desk. It’s a beautifully messy place, a creative vortex of text and imagery that one of his staff members calls a hub for “the brains of the operation” at … Continued
British Museum, London – The American Dream: Pop to the Present will feature Mixografia prints from Ed Ruscha February 23, 2017 (Los Angeles, CA.) Mixografia is a printer and publisher of fine art prints. It was founded in Mexico City in 1968 by Luis and Lea Remba and has now been operating out of Downtown … Continued
Jacob Hashimoto’s “Gas Giant” on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Pacific Design Center in 2014. His new prints are at Mixografia. (Fredrik Nilsen) By Deborah VankinContact Reporter Los Angeles County Museum of Art You might say Jacob Hashimoto is detail-oriented. He and seven assistants sit around a table in his New York studio, … Continued
To describe the last few weeks and the upcoming days as tumultuous would be an understatement. I believe that now, more than ever, we need an extra dose of art to distract us and keep our spirits high. Top: Jacob Hashimoto speaking in front of Another Cautionary Tale Comes to Mind, 2016 Mixografia, Los Angeles … Continued
Analia Saban, DANKE MERCI THANK YOU GRACIAS ARIGATO Plastic Bag, 2016. Photograph by Micah Espudo Through her show, “Paper or Plastic?”, at the innovative Mixografia studio, Analia Saban breathes new life into plastic grocery bags while highlighting their vapidity as an aging commercial technology. In earlier bodies of work, Saban cast mundane objects … Continued
Photos by Tanveer Badal The Los Angeles-based fine-arts printmaker Mixografia takes 2-D reproductions to perceptual 3-D heights, using secretive methods that take skill and talent. Artist editions, like those created by printmaking fixture Mixografia, have long held the promise of democratizing access to fine art. Along with artist books, they offer a more economically … Continued
In a strip of nondescript, industrial warehouses south of downtown Los Angeles, a groundbreaking printmaking studio renders handmade cotton paper into every conceivable texture, color and shape — even imitating materials like concrete, rusted metal and wood. Known as Mixografia, it has worked with high-profile artists to create prints that have a volume, depth … Continued
At the industrial downtown end of Adams Boulevard, the American Dream is thriving, as one family business reinvents the modern art of printmaking. The history of the Mixografia Workshop is an archetypal story of a family — the Rembas — originally from Mexico, pursuing new horizons for the family business, putting down deep roots and … Continued
It was 1973 and Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo was wanting to go big. He’d grown bored with flat, two-dimensional lithography prints, which traditionally ran small because the stone surfaces they were printed on were limited in size. Tamayo brainstormed with printmaker and publisher Luis Remba of Taller de Gráfica Mexicana in Mexico City about … Continued
