For Immediate Release October 10, 2024
Media Contact: Kate Taylor Davis | 202-321-2878 | ktdavis@pyramid-atlantic.org
MIXED UP, CUT UP
Explorations in Screenprinting by Carlos Hernandez
Hyattsville, MD – Houston-based artist Carlos Hernandez shares screenprints, collages, and sketchbooks in Mixed Up, Cut Up. Hernandez’s work reproduces familiar visual images, and arranges/collages them into new, layered works often with added hand-drawn elements. The results are high-voltage graphic works with retro grit.
Mixed Up, Cut Up opens Saturday, October 19th with an artist talk at 5 pm and a reception from 6-8 pm (free, RSVP requested). The exhibition runs through November 24, 2024 in Pyramid’s Helen C. Frederick Gallery. Gallery hours are Wed & Thu, 10 – 8 pm and Fri – Sun, 10 – 6 pm. Pyramid is located at 4318 Gallatin Street, Hyattsville, Maryland 20781. For more information and an RSVP link, visit pyramidatlantic.org or call 301-608-9101.
In addition to the exhibition, Hernandez will also be leading two workshops at Pyramid:
The Collage Sketchbook: Creating a Daily Habit of Mixed Media Exploration
Thu., October 17, 6-9pm | $130
From Concept to Production: A Screenprinting Demo
Fri., October 18, 6-9pm | $60
“For me, the discipline of printmaking is the process of discovery; I love how the process has a feeling of unpredictability…I am drawn to discarded and found graphics and like to incorporate hand-drawn elements, old ads, and dirty patterns to add to my illustration and collage work,” states Hernandez.
Hernandez’s work has been showcased through a variety of gallery shows and projects that include the music industry, restaurant and retail design, and corporate work. He is a founding partner and director of Burning Bones Press, a full-service printmaking studio located in the Houston Heights, and has served as an instructor of screenprinting at Rice University, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.
Career highlights have included serving as the 2019 and 2024 Artist-In-Residence at the renowned Hatch Show Print, which have culminated in two shows at the Haley Gallery, part of the Country Music Hall of Fame; becoming a part of the print collection at The Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress; being tapped as the official commemorative poster artist for the Austin City Limits Music Festival; and his work with childhood idol and hot rod legend, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth.
Image: Mayhem, Carlos Hernandez, Collage from sourced screenprints. Additional images available upon request.
ABOUT PYRAMID ATLANTIC
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Founded in 1981, Pyramid Atlantic is a nonprofit contemporary art center fostering the creative disciplines of papermaking, printmaking, and book arts within a collaborative community. We equip, educate, and exhibit in our historic Hyattsville home. Our vision is to create an artistic hub in Hyattsville that inspires and enables local, national, and international artists to create and innovate in our core disciplines; elevates the local arts and small business scene; and enhances the quality of life for artists and neighbors. We value artistic excellence, infrastructure for artists, hands-on experiences, and collaboration.