Xerox Lithography Workshop and Artist Talk with Joe Ramiro Garcia

OKLAHOMA CITY—With works that are at once playful and provocative, Joe Ramiro Garcia layers oil paint and printmaking processes into boldly colored art. The Santa Fe-based artist will give a talk and teach a Xerox Lithography Workshop at Untitled [ArtSpace] in Oklahoma City. The artist talk will be on Friday, October 17 at 6:30 pm and will be free to the public. The workshop will be on October 18 and 19 with sessions from 10 am to 6 pm each day.

Xerox lithography is a paper lithography transfer method that creates a photographic or printed look. Garcia’s paintings often incorporate this method, using it to duplicate commercial and familiar images of cartoons, animals, and objects on his paintings. Xerox lithography involves the principles of traditional lithography, including the use of Gum Arabic and the method of repelling and attracting ink to certain areas. However, instead of a lithography stone, paper with a carbon-based image is used to repel oil-based ink while attracting it to the carbon areas on the paper. Also unlike traditional lithography, the image on paper can only be used once instead of in multiple editions. The “Xerox” in the process comes from the use of Xerox copies for the carbon-based images. Garcia's workshop will focus on Xerox lithography monotypes.

Joe Ramiro Garcia, Easy Life
Oil and alkyd on birch panel, 12x12", 2008
© Joe Ramiro Garcia

Tuition for the workshop is $175 per participant. High school and college students are eligible to receive a 50% discount on workshop tuition. Interested students must submit a letter of interest and proof of enrollment to Untitled [ArtSpace] by September 3. Supplies for the workshop will be included, although students are asked to bring up to 20 Xeroxes of the same or different images. These can be graphic designs or high contract photographic images. Space in the workshop will be limited. To enroll in Joe Ramiro Garcia’s workshop, call 405.815.9995, email untitledartspace@1ne3.org, or visit www.1ne3.org.

Joe Ramiro Garcia’s work was in a Chicano art exhibition at Untitled [ArtSpace] in May and June of 2008. He has also exhibited at MainSite Contemporary Art in Norman, LewAllen Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art in Santa Rosa, Calif., Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins, Colo., Exhibition for the United States Ambassador to Cuba in Havana, Cuba, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. He taught Advanced Painting at the Institute for American Indian Arts and was a Visiting Artist at the University of Tennessee and for the Summer Youth Program at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in New Mexico. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has studied with many notable artists, including Julian Robles, Karl Wirsum, Thomas Nzkowski, Roland Reis, and Squeak Carnwath.

Untitled [ArtSpace] is a nonprofit arts organization in downtown Oklahoma City committed to stimulating new ideas and creative thought through contemporary art. Untitled [ArtSpace] is dedicated to providing access to quality exhibitions, educational programs, performances, publications, and to involving the community in collaborative outreach efforts. Untitled [ArtSpace]’s exhibitions are free and open to the public Tues-Thurs 11 am–6 pm, Fri 11 am–8 pm, and Sat 11 am–4 pm.

Joe Ramiro Garcia’s artist talk and workshop are part of the Untitled [Press] series in the printmaking studio at Untitled [ArtSpace]. For more information about Untitled [ArtSpace] or Untitled [Press], visit www.1ne3.org or call 405.815.9995.