APERTURA

April 16 - May 21,2022

From Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking:

"Flatbed is pleased to present APERTURA, an exhibition of large, abstract monotypes created by Pepe Coronado at Flatbed Press.

Pepe Coronado was born and raised in the Dominican Republic and currently resides between New York City and Austin, Texas. Coronado is a founding member of the print collective Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA, and founder of Coronado Print Studio. He teaches printmaking at St. Edwards University in Austin, and has taught at Purchase College School of Art and Design, SUNY; at the Corcoran College of Art; Georgetown University; and at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where he earned the Master of Fine Arts. Coronado was a master printer for Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Maryland; the Hand Print Workshop International in Alexandria, Virginia; and the Serie Print Project in Austin, Texas. He was a resident teaching artist at the Hudson River Museum in New York, and visiting artist at Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles. He also serves as the board of PrintAustin.

Apertura, curated by Katherine Brimberry,  is Coronado’s most recent solo exhibition. Other solo exhibitions include Interactions: Borders, Boundaries and Historical Relations of the US/DR, Curated by Oshun Lane, Prizm Art Fair, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Miami.; Projects Photo / Prints, Gallery 410 GooDBuddY, Washington, DC; Construcciones - Obstrucciones 2005 - 10, Casa de Teatro Santo Domingo DR for the Photo Imagen Biennial, curated by Sara Hermann, and at the Center for the Digital Arts, Westchester Community College, NY, curated by Lise Prown; Boundaries, curated by Margaret Moulton, The Hastings Village Arts Commission Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY.; Obstrucciones, Gallery 101, Georgetown University, Washington DC and Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Coronado’s most recent and notable group exhibition is !Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, curated by Carmen Ramos and Claudia Zapata at the Smithsonian American.  This exhibition will also travel to the Amon Carter in Fort Worth, Texas this April.

APERTURA features Coronado’s recent dramatic, large monotypes created at Flatbed Press in December of 2021.  The concept of aperture as it relates to obstruction, position and revelation are the guiding principles for Coronado’s abstractions.  Using a direct application of ink with a large printmaking roller, Coronado created large ribbon and plate-like shapes. He has systematically added more shapes with overprinting and the result is an accumulation of active shapes of gradating values. Coronado’s APERTURA abstractions explore square and rectangular formats, some as large as 60” x 42.”  The following is a quote from Coronado:

“I’m exploring spaces whose definition is transitory and evolving.  This series of montypes are stark black and white with shifting plates and openings that fracture expansive fields of space, creating dynamic interaction between forms and vivid tension that struggles to break through, fighting for position, each finally establishing its own presence.”"

Reception: May 07, 2022 | 6-8 pm

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