Delighted to pick up Christina Forrer and Siri Kaur’s books last night at the Hammer Museum Bookstore! Congratulations to my friends on such beautiful publications!
According to urban legend (i.e. Nextdoor app), someone lost their nocturnal numididae in our neighborhood, also known to us common folk as a guinea fowl.
We exchanged pleasantries, agreed on key regional issues, and thankfully since the greater order of galliformes aren’t man eating, I escaped basically unharmed.
One of my more colorful and unexpected peripatetic encounters, maybe we’ll meet again… across the sands of time… the guinea fowl abides.
We are incredibly proud to announce a major institutional acquisition!
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (@LACMA ) Prints & Drawings department has officially acquired the EGE print, “Abril 27, 2001,” by the brilliant Carmen Argote for their permanent collection. This is a monumental honor!
The print is currently on view in the must-see exhibition, “Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures,” at the Resnick Pavilion. This encyclopedic and playful show presents the medium of woodblock printing within LACMA’s collection, featuring more than 150 works from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The exhibition runs through September 2026.
A huge thank you to Associate Curator Erin Sullivan Maynes (@erinsmaynes ) and the entire LACMA team for hosting the important “Study Day Modern Relief Printing, A Cross-County Dialogue” this past Friday.
Erin led a delightful and engaging presentation of the works in “Deep Cuts,” featuring insightful presentations by artists Christiane Baumgartner (@christiane_baumgartner ) and Analia Saban (@analiasabanstudio ), Hopie Hill from Block Shop (@blockshoptextiles ), and yours truly.
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A heartfelt thank you to curators Elena Shtromberg and Zanna Gilbert for including Carmen Argote and Eric Gero Editions’ impact print editions in their monumental exhibition “Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s-2020s”! It was a pleasure to meet you both and have our project engage in such an important and timely dialog relating to mail art.
The exhibition surveys artworks created and exchanged by Latinx and Latin American women artists from the 1960s to the present. It presents historic works, including visual poetry, drawings, prints, performance, video, and photography—in dialogue with a younger generation of artists who incorporate elements of correspondence into their practice. On view September 13, 2025 to February 15, 2026 at the UCR California Museum of Photography in Riverside. An exhibition catalog is forthcoming.
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