The Alhambra Bar
linocut
Jose Lozano and Artemio Rodriguez
$180.00 (edition of 30)

Art in the Vault is pleased to present the recent works of Artemio Rodriguez and Jose Lozano. The show will be on display at Whites Gallery in Montrose, CA through the month of July. Lozano and Rodriguez collaborated on the above linoleum cut entitled, "The Alhambra Bar." It is available in a limited edition of 30 for the ridiculously low price of $180.00.

Artemio Rodriguez was born in Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México.  He is the founder of La Mano Press, an artist-run print-studio and workshop located near downtown Los Angeles.  Rodriguez is dedicated to the art and appreciation of printmaking.  He notes, “… when technology dominates the way we live and see the world, when even the printed word has become almost obsolete, I feel a necessity to return to the way of seeing and living through the black and white of the carved and hand-printed image.  A visual artist is not only a creator of images, decorations or concepts for museums, he is also a physical worker and a creator of conscience, an instigator of sensibilities and imagination.”

Rodriguez' work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the University of Arizona, Museum of Art, the Laguna Art Museum, and the Mexican Fine Art Center Museum, Chicago.

Jose Lozano is a highly regarded painter and a member of La Mano Press.  He was born and raised in California but also spent some of his childhood in Juarez, Mexico; as a result, he identifies himself as Chicano, influenced by Mexican and American cultures.  His gouache and oil paintings have a strong narrative quality, stemming from such literary works as Madame Bovary, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo.