Mixografia brings artists’ Visions to life
Analia Saban '05 (M.F.A., Art)
Art Department alumna Analia Saban presents her work at Mixografia, a printing workshop with a long history in the Los Angeles arts community and historic UCLA Arts connections. Its founders moved to Los Angeles in 1984 at the invitation of Robert H. Gray, then-dean of the UCLA College of Fine Arts.
"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 and level of detail similar to bas-relief sculpture.
Master printer Luis Remba, 84, founded Mixografia with his wife, Lea, 76, in Mexico City in the early 1970s, and their son Shaye continues the tradition, overseeing the production at their Los Angeles workshop.
And now, after working with some of the art world’s leading luminaries, including Alberto Burri, Helen Frankenthaler, Kiki Smith and Frank Stella, the studio is holding its debut exhibition at the new Mixografia Gallery, a 6,000-square-foot space next to the workshop that had previously sat empty. “Paper or Plastic?” a solo show of new work by L.A.-based Argentine-Jewish artist Analia Saban, began Sept. 10 and runs through Nov. 12."— Avishay Artsy, September 14, 2016
Read the full article at the Jewish Journal website.