Carlos Ramirez 'Rebel' Print Available

Artist: Carlos Ramirez
Title: Rebel
Medium: Hand Pulled 18 Layer Serigraph
Size: 30 x 24 Inches
Edition: 35
Price: $800

 

Carlos Ramirez, is a prominent Mexican-American, or Chicano, artist born in 1967 in the Coachella Valley of California. The son of migrant workers, his parents were originally from Mexico and followed agricultural routes for work; his mother even worked with civil rights leader Cesar Chavez during the grape boycott in the 1970s. These early experiences and his working-class Chicano upbringing deeply inform his unique art, which often highlights the struggles and resilience within Mexican-American communities and champions the common person.

For over a decade, Ramirez was half of the internationally recognized art duo "The Date Farmers" with Armando Lerma, exploring the Mexican-American experience and the identity of living between cultures. Since the duo began working independently in 2017, Ramirez has developed a solo career, creating mixed-media works that blend Mexican-American heritage with California pop culture. His paintings, collages, and sculptures are a multi-cultural mix infused with commercial references and socio-political content. Influences are drawn from a wide array of sources, including graffiti, Mexican street murals, prison art, low-rider and tattoo art, and even ancient indigenous art.

Ramirez's distinctive visual language is known for combining familiar pop iconography, such as Mickey Mouse or corporate logos, with figures from comics, folklore, and Catholicism. He often incorporates found materials like discarded packaging, stamps, and bottle caps, alongside desert creatures like coyotes and snakes, which appear frequently in his works. His pieces are known for their vibrant, "Mexican candy-colored" backgrounds, such as bright pinks and yellows, which contrast with the often serious subject matter of institutionalized racism and social inequality, reflecting an insistence on optimism and humor in the face of adversity. Ramirez has exhibited his work in museums and galleries across the US, including the Oakland Museum of California and the Palm Springs Art Museum.

Serio Press 'Archive Sale' Friday's Release

Artist: Various
Title: Serio Press Archive Sale
Medium: Screen Prints + Artist Proofs
Size: Various
Edition: RARE
Prices: LOT$

 

*new prints are online at 2pm EST

Serio Press Archive Sale Sneak Peek

Artist: Various
Title: Serio Press Archive Sale
Medium: Screen Prints + Artist Proofs
Size: Various
Edition: RARE
Prices: LOT$

 

*sale starts at 2pm EST on Thursday and runs until Sunday, each day new prints will be released.

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Serio Press is a Los Angeles print studio built on ink, daylight and democratic ideals. Opened in 2012 by master printer Jorge López, the shop occupies a former textile mill near the L.A. River, where thirty foot skylights flood custom built work tables with even, north facing light. Specialising in water based screen printing, the team collaborates with artists, museums and social justice organisations to translate paintings, digital collages and photographs into limited edition prints that retain the hand of the original while gaining the tactile snap of pulled ink.

The process begins with high-resolution scanning or direct photography on site. Separations are then output on waterproof film, handcut or digitally printed, and stretched onto aluminium frames tensioned to 25 newtons tight enough to hold fine halftone dots yet flexible for large solids. Using only water-based pigments, printers lay down translucent glazes, metallic overlays or split fountain rainbows, building colour fields that can exceed twenty layers without muddying. Paper stocks range from Somerset velvet to recycled kraft, each chosen to complement the image surface and the artist’s intent.

Beyond edition work, Serio Press runs community workshops, teaching local high school students how to burn screens, mix pigments and edition their own posters. Recent projects include a 5,000 run voter registration broadside for Rock the Vote, a suite of ocean coloured prints with painter Hayley Barker and a monumental twelve color portrait of labor leader Dolores Huerta for the Smithsonian.

Every print leaves the shop stamped with the Serio chop two coyotes circling a saguaro symbolising collaboration, resilience and the belief that art, like ink, should travel far beyond the studio wall.

Adrian Landon Brooks 'Works On Paper' Prints Available

Artist: Adrian Landon Brooks
Title: Works On Paper
Medium: Deckled Serigraphs
Size: 11 x 14 Inches Each
Edition: 40
Prices: $100 Each or $200/Set

Adrian Landon Brooks is an American artist born in Houston Texas in 1983 who now lives and works in the woods outside Austin. He studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and has developed a distinctive desert folk aesthetic that merges spiritual symbolism with roughhewn materials. Brooks combs burn piles at sawmills junk shops and antique stores searching for weathered wood corroded metal and faded photographs whose patina he refuses to strip. Once an object speaks to him he answers with acrylic ink pastel and pencil applying serene faces celestial bodies blooming flowers and geometric altars that hover between ancient icon and contemporary dream.

A consistent pastel palette of peach mint and lilac softens the melancholy themes of love loss and redemption that run through his work creating a gentle dissonance that soothes while it unsettles. The artist credits his early days writing graffiti with teaching him color composition and urgency lessons that still guide his bold concise imagery. Recent murals include commissions for the San Antonio Spurs and large scale walls across Texas while gallery exhibitions like Siren Song reveal a more deliberate dialogue with Egyptian and pan Mediterranean forms. Whether painting on a shard of barn wood or a full city wall Brooks hopes viewers leave with wonder detached from the here and now feeling the ritual pulse that connects handmade mark to timeless story.

El Mac 'Gravity And Grace' (I, II, III, IV) Prints Release Details

Artist: El Mac
Title: Gravity And Grace (I, II, III & IV)
Medium: Hand Pulled Multi Layer 11 Color Screen Print
Size: 33 x 34.5 Inches
Edition: Various
Price: Various

*available at 1pm EST on Monday December 9th, 2024

GRAVITY AND GRACE I (Gray) • Edition Size: 57 Price: $575

GRAVITY AND GRACE II (Blue) • Edition Size: 25 Price: $650 

GRAVITY AND GRACE III (Red) • Edition Size: 19 Price: $725

GRAVITY AND GRACE IV (Teal) • Edition Size: 13 Price: $775

Mu Pan 'Sharpbelly' + 'White Tiger' Prints Release Details

Artist: Mu Pan
Title: Sharpbelly + White Tiger
Medium: Deckled Hand Pulled 11 Color Screen Prints
Size: 42 x 13 Inches each
Edition: 48 each
Price: $375 each

*available at 6pm EST on Sunday August 18th

Tiffany Alfonseca 'Mirame (Una Belleza Tropical)' Print Available

Artist: Tiffany Alfonseca
Title: Mirame (Una Belleza Tropical)
Medium: Hand Pulled 4 Color Screenprint
Size: 14 x 16 Inches
Edition: 25
Price: $350