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Lot Essay
Including: For Sale; Cash for Tools 1; Cash for Tools 2; Dead End 1; Dead End 2 and Dead End 3
The Mixografía technique is a unique fine art printing process that allows for the production of three-dimensional prints with texture and very fine surface detail. With this process, the artist creates a model or "maquette" with any solid material or combination of materials on which he or she incises, impresses, carves, collages or builds-up in relief the image to be reproduced. A sequence of plates is then molded, one from another, resulting in a copper printing plate in reverse. The edition is printed on moist handmade paper pulp after color is applied to the copper plate. The paper and printing plate are then forced through the press, simultaneously forming the dimensional character of the plate and transferring the color.
Mixografía works permit the artist to transfer characteristics of painting, bas-relief or assemblage onto paper without completely abandoning the graphic feeling. These artworks directly represent the artist's original creation, maintaining the identifiable traits of the artist's work, the artist's gestural expressions and the nature of the materials used.
Rusty Signs is Rucha’s most recent project in a 20-year collaboration with Mixografía. In this project, Shaye Remba, the owner of Mixografía, says, “No longer do we see a fictionalized representation (e.g. the Hollywood sign ablaze), or a limited one (the carefully cropped photos of Some Los Angeles Apartments), but we actually see the sign itself, and its physicality is a part of its essence.”
The Mixografía technique is a unique fine art printing process that allows for the production of three-dimensional prints with texture and very fine surface detail. With this process, the artist creates a model or "maquette" with any solid material or combination of materials on which he or she incises, impresses, carves, collages or builds-up in relief the image to be reproduced. A sequence of plates is then molded, one from another, resulting in a copper printing plate in reverse. The edition is printed on moist handmade paper pulp after color is applied to the copper plate. The paper and printing plate are then forced through the press, simultaneously forming the dimensional character of the plate and transferring the color.
Mixografía works permit the artist to transfer characteristics of painting, bas-relief or assemblage onto paper without completely abandoning the graphic feeling. These artworks directly represent the artist's original creation, maintaining the identifiable traits of the artist's work, the artist's gestural expressions and the nature of the materials used.
Rusty Signs is Rucha’s most recent project in a 20-year collaboration with Mixografía. In this project, Shaye Remba, the owner of Mixografía, says, “No longer do we see a fictionalized representation (e.g. the Hollywood sign ablaze), or a limited one (the carefully cropped photos of Some Los Angeles Apartments), but we actually see the sign itself, and its physicality is a part of its essence.”