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Print Making by Artemio Rodriguez

Artemio Rodriguez (Born 1972, Mexico)

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Artemio Rodriguez was born in Tacambaro, Michoacan Mexico in 1972. He began by studying agronomy at the Universidad Autonomo Chapingo and was later introduced to art when he apprenticed and learned letterpress printing from Juan Pasco, a master print maker working out of the Taller San Martin pescadoer near Rodriguez’s hometown.

As a print maker who works primarily in black and white, Rodriguez’s signature style emphasizes simplicity and clarity. European medieval woodcuts and the great Mexican print artists such as Jose Guadalupe Posada have been influential in Rodriguez’s print making career. Though comfortable working in a wide variety of artistic media, Rodriguez regards his ten years as a print maker as the beginning of a long quest. His larger goal is to keep exploring and promoting printmaking until he feels he has contributed something important to the medium. He fully expects this to take a lifetime. In 2002 he founded La Mano Press in Los Angeles California. La Mano Press is an artist-run center dedicated to the promotion and appreciation of printmaking.

Rodriguez’s work has been featured in galleries in the United States and Mexico. He has also illustrated and published several books.

• Portfolios: Seven Deadly Sins, 2003; Seven Deadly Demons, 2003; Woodcuts of Women, 2001

• Related Links: El Huerto and Graficomovil

Tacambaro series, 2008

Selections from Tacambaro, a book of linocuts illustrating poems from the 1920’s by
Jose Ruben Romero about Tacambaro, Artemio Rodriguez’s hometown.

Seven Deadly Sins, 2003

Portfolio of 9 prints: $1200

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Seven Deadly Demons, 2003

Portfolio of 8 prints: $850

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Woodcuts of Women, 2001

Complete Set of 12 prints: $1200

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