Day 4430: Artist, Juan Sanchez, DYKx3.

"Scattered": junk collage, ink.

      

  

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*I chose to share this, as I am enamored with writing within art, and I love the somewhat childish feel to this rather sophisticated art. There is a lengthy article that goes with this, linked at the end.

Juan Sánchez 

the Guariquen Portfolio

Juan Sánchez:
I first met Bob Blackburn at Rutgers University, where I was doing my MFA. Unfortunately, I never took a course with him during this time, but I would visit him at least once a week and hang with him at the print shop.

In 1982, Bob opened this program at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop where artists could apply for a one-year residency. Part of the program was for the artists to take courses in printmaking. So I applied for the residency, and I got it. For one year, I took courses in etching, lithography, and monoprinting. In the end, I was among a group of artists who ended up making a portfolio together.

During that time, I was primarily engaged with painting and photography. That year was very frustrating for me because I wanted to produce masterpieces immediately. I learned the hard way that you have to become a student again in order to learn printmaking, which is a very complex process.

So I went through the year. I had a bunch of prints and proofs. I never really developed a discipline of editioning prints unless it’s a tiny edition. I was very frustrated but very engaged. I applied for a grant through the New York State Council of the Arts with a proposal to produce a suite of prints—and part of the proposal was to produce them at Bob’s print shop. I got the grant, and that’s when things started moving.

Exit Art/The First World. Hand-colored lithograph with collage, 22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in.The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Allade, Inc. and Rosoff Foundation Gifts, 1987 (1987.204a) © Juan Sánchez

View of Juan Sánchez’s prints as installed in the exhibition New Acquisitions in Context: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. September 2023

Juan Sánchez (American, b. 1954). Un Sueño Libre, from the portfolio “Guariquen: Images and Words Rican/Structured,” 1987. Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Exit Art/The First World. Hand-colored lithograph with collage, 22 3/8 x 30 in.

Juan Sánchez (American, b. 1954). La Lucha Continua, from the portfolio “Guariquen: Images and Words Rican/Structured,” 1986. Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Exit Art/The First World. Hand-colored lithograph and screenprint with collage, 22 5/8 x 30 1/4 in.  

Juan Sánchez (American, b. 1954). Tres Banderas, 1988. Lithograph, serigraph, and laser print on paper, 22 x 30 in.

Juan Sánchez (American, b. 1954). "It is the roots of who I am that remains - suppression notwithstanding", 1987–88. Oil, cut and pasted photographs and wax crayons on canvas, 60 1/8 x 103 3/8in. (152.7 x 262.6cm).

Juan Sánchez (American, b. 1954). Para Carmen María Colón, from the portfolio “Guariquen: Images and Words Rican/Structured,” 1986. Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Exit Art/The First World. Hand-colored lithograph with collage, 22 1/4 x 30 in.

Juan Sánchez (American, b. 1954). Recoge Tu Destino, from the portfolio “Guariquen: Images and Words Rican/Structured,” 1986. Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Exit Art/The First World. Hand-colored lithograph and screenprint with collage, 22 1/4 x 30 in

To read the entire article, here.

(This is called "OISO" and I was there in 1979)

 

  

 

A 5+ minute video, Croissants,  here

 

 

 

  

 

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