Clare Rojas at Ikon Gallery, UK

Clare Rojas - We They, We They
Installation, 2010
photo by Stuart Whipps
The first UK museum exhibition by Clare Rojas is currently on view at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, and features a work created with the help of Magnolia Editions, as well as some awesome works both large and small, and even paintings on antique banjos!

The Ikon Gallery website has a gallery of pictures of the show, which we highly recommend. It is an amazing looking installation and we only wish we could see it person. Rojas also has a suite of small paintings on calico and a new children's book called Pidgy for sale through Ikon's web store.

Below, some images from the fabrication of the piece Magnolia Editions collaborated on. Rojas brought in numerous older paintings on panel, which were chopped up using a CNC cutter and re-assembled in the style of a quilt. The final work is secured to the wall via a magnet system developed by Donald Farnsworth.





Installation photos: Stuart Whipps

Panel discussion at SOMArts Saturday 3 pm

Enrique Chagoya's One Recession (2009) at SOMArts
Magnolia's Don Farnsworth will moderate a panel discussion, The Politics and History of Printmaking, featuring Art Hazelwood, Robert Flynn Johnson, and Steve Lopez, on Saturday, February 20 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm at San Francisco's SOMArts.

We highly recommend both this discussion and the Prints Byte exhibit currently at SOMArts, which features several innovative new editions created at Magnolia by Enrique Chagoya.

3 - 4:30 pm
Saturday Feb. 20
SOMArts Cultural Center - 934 Brannan St, San Francisco
(415) 863-1414
http://blog.somarts.org/

Clare Rojas print at SFO Airport

Blue Deer, a mural-sized work by Clare Rojas printed at Magnolia Editions, has been installed at Boarding Area G in San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Blue Deer was printed on 16 wood panels, each measuring 4 x 5 ft. See below for pictures of the installation and be sure to check out the work if you're traveling through SFO.

Magnolia offers sincere congratulations to Clare Rojas and thanks to Susan Pontious of the SF Arts Commission.




Photos courtesy of Andrew Wood

Story Painters at Bedford Gallery

Inez Storer - World Map, 2010
Mixed media on panel; 40 x 70 in. Edition of 5
Story Painters, a show featuring work by Inez Storer, Squeak Carnwath, and Hung Liu, opens tonight at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek.

The show runs from February 16 to April 11, 2010; please check the Bedford Gallery website for more events related to this show, including a collage workshop, a happy hour with the artists, a morning presentation by Inez Storer, and more.

Prints Byte opening tomorrow night

Branches, courtesy of Christina Empedocles
Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking opens Friday, February 5 from 7-9 pm at SOMARTS Cultural Center in San Francisco.

Co-curated by Justin Hoover and Hanna Regev, Prints Byte looks at new ways that the field of printmaking is redefining itself with new technologies, new processes and new direction. The show includes work by a wide variety of artists from Kara Maria to Nancy Genn, Yuzo Nakano to (Magnolia neighbor) Kamau Patton, and features several recent prints by Enrique Chagoya published by Magnolia.

Also, Magnolia's Don Farnsworth will moderate a panel discussion, The Politics and History of Printmaking, featuring Art Hazelwood, Robert Flynn Johnson, and Steve Lopez, on Saturday, February 20 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm.

For more information, including details on printmaking workshops at SOMARTS this month, please check their website.