Currrent Exhibition
MIXED UP, CUT UP
Explorations in Screenprinting
by Carlos Hernandez
On View: October 19 – November 24, 2024
Artist Talk: Saturday, October 19, 5-6pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 19, 6-8pm
Image Credit: Mayhem, Carlos Hernandez, Collage from sourced screenprints
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.
“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.
About the Artist:
Carlos 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.
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