Fatima Ronquillo, Hand with Squirrel Monkey and Lover’s Eye
oil, 12 x 12 in.
PTG03864
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Fatima Ronquillo, The First Jasmines
lithograph, 22 x 19 in.
paper size 22x19 inches, image size 16x13 inches
on Somerset Grey paper
5-color lithograph on aluminum substrate.
edition 30.
in collaboration with Landfall Press. 2020.
“The First Jasmines” was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s poem of the same title. I have always been fascinated by traditional printmaking process after being introduced to etching over 25 years ago. Other than the odd workshop I had not had the chance to explore the medium. Imagine my delight when Jack Lemon, master printmaker and founder of Landfall Press, invited me to create a print with them. It is my first editioned print and Jack’s final official print before his retirement. It is such an honor to have been given the chance to collaborate with this legendary print shop. Landfall Press has just celebrated 50 years of printmaking publishing prints by so many artists whom I admire such as Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, David Ligare, Kara Walker, Leslie Dill and Judy Chicago to name but a few. I am so honored to be a part of it. “The First Jasmines” print was run on an antique press from the 1860s, the Marinoni Voirin. It is an impressive piece of machinery that was converted to electrical power from steam power having made its way from Paris to Santa Fe. My work has always referenced the art of the past and I find it romantic and fitting that this print was made on the Voirin.
PRNT00009
Fatima Ronquillo, The Hapy Few: Youth with Black Footed Ferrets
oil, 16 x 12 in.
PTG03396
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Fatima Ronquillo, Time Regained: Hand with Proust and Forget Me Nots
oil, 8 x 6 in.
PTG03398
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