Magnolia Editions Blog

Prints by Faisal Abdu'Allah

Prints on raw aluminum panels by Faisal Abdu'Allah
Work for an upcoming show at Stanford University by British artist Faisal Abdu'Allah was printed at Magnolia Editions this week.

Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, an assistant professor of Art History at Stanford, acted as Abdu'Allah's proxy; the artist was present from across the Atlantic ocean for proofing and decision-making via a Skype video connection on Martinez-Ruiz's laptop.

Detail of a print by Faisal Abdu'Allah
Abdu'Allah's show "The Art of Dislocation" opens September 28 at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, with an opening reception on October 1 from 5 to 7 pm.

Faisal Abdu'Allah exhibition website

New prints by George Miyasaki

George Miyasaki - Between Accident and System Series IV (v.2), 2010
collagraph and mixed media, 31.5 x 25.5 in.
George Miyasaki has produced sixteen new prints in an edition variée entitled Between Accident and System, created at Magnolia Editions with printer Brian Caraway.

Miyasaki prints multiple layers from a collagraph plate and embellishes each print with color by hand, so that each work in the series has its own unique character.

We highly recommend making an appointment to come see these prints in person; the variations in tone and color are worth experiencing first hand! Miyasaki is truly a master of his craft.

More work by George Miyasaki at Magnolia Editions

Hung Liu smart car

Photo by Bruce Matthews
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City has teamed with Hung Liu to create a smart car covered in artwork by Liu. The car will be raffled off in October as part of a fundraiser for the museum.

Magnolia Editions worked with Liu to select and configure imagery from various paintings into a composition designed specifically for the car's exterior.

For more information about the raffle, please check the Kemper Museum website.

More art from Hung Liu at Magnolia Editions

September ARTnews available online

The September issue of ARTnews featuring Rupert Garcia's Frida Kahlo (1975/2002) on the cover is now available to read online.

The cover article includes the good news that Garcia will have a show of works created at Magnolia Editions at San Francisco's de Young Museum early next year:

For many historians, art writers, and curators, it is this socially minded work that defines the category. But the scene was hardly monolithic. "There were a variety of ideologies," says Rupert Garcia, a Bay Area artist who will have two decades' worth of his prints on view in "Rupert Garcia: The Magnolia Editions Projects," opening at San Francisco's de Young Museum on February 26. "It wasn't as black and white as many would like to say it is. It was fluid and exciting." Garcia is a case in point: a trained artist, he has crafted well-known political posters, but has also produced lesser-known paintings that reflect his abiding interest in art history. A 1989 pastel in "Phantom Sightings" riffed - in an abstract way - on Gustave Courbet's troubles following the Paris Commune of 1871.

Work by Rupert Garcia at Magnolia Editions

Hung Liu at Byron Cohen Gallery

Hung Liu - Mourning: Crow, 2009
oil on canvas, 24 x 48 in.
"Hung Liu: New Works" opens this Friday, September 3 and runs until October 30 at Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art in Kansas City.

The show features mixed media works and a recent suite of oil paintings. Xiao Yi writes:

Liu has devoted herself to a series of paintings depicting people in the aftermath of the Sichuan quake. The subject of these paintings is less the disaster itself than the expressions of mythic emotion embodied in the poses of the dead and the survivors: the contortions of grief, shock, confusion, stunned silence, courage, and mourning.

[...]As an artist, Liu has always been interested in "mythic poses" in which the human figure expresses the epic themes and historical forces that rumble through our lives - sometimes ending them, or leaving us bereft. The body tells its stories, and Liu's career as a painter has pivoted, ironically, on the photographic depictions of the narratives bound up or expressed in the poses of ordinary Chinese people caught up in extraordinary historical circumstances.

Work by Hung Liu at Magnolia Editions

Rupert Garcia in ARTnews

Look for Rupert Garcia's Frida Kahlo (1975/2002), a woodcut published by Magnolia Editions, on the cover of the September 2010 issue of ARTnews.

Next month, says the magazine's website, as Mexican American artists attain a higher profile within mainstream art institutions, we explore what it means to operate under the Chicano moniker in today's culturally complex landscape.

Another Rupert Garcia work published by Magnolia Editions, 1973, 2001, 2002, also appears in the September issue: