Museum – Page 2 – Oscar Magallanes

Great video featuring Lyle Williams, curator of works on paper from the McNay Museum of the upcoming print exhibition Estampas de la Raza. My print “…And the Boss Laughs” will be featured in the exhibition and catalog.

August 15, 2011August 15, 2011

…and the Boss Laughs

My print “…and the Boss Laughs” is now part of the permanent collection at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. It will be on display as part of their upcoming exhibit and catalog, Estampas de la Raza. The print is a 26″x20″ hand pulled, 8 color (including a split fountain), serigraph printed at Self Help Graphics & Art in East Los Angeles.

I will post the exhibition info shortly.

I have a few of these prints still available for purchase. Send me an email if interested.

January 16, 2011August 23, 2013

Zocalo’s Street Art Panel Discussion

Had a good week. On Thursday went to the Fowler Museum for Zocalo’s Street Art panel discussion with a friend. Before we went in I ran into Shervin Shahbazi from Morono Kiang a great gallery in downtown LA. Also had a good talk with Carol Wells from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

The talk itself was nothing great. Had it not been for my good friend Retna and Man 1 from Crewest gallery the talk would have lacked in substance and been a bit boring. It would have been nice if the moderator, Jori Finkel from the LA Times would have brought up the topic which was “does street art humanize cities.” Also seems as if no one wanted to talk about the elephant in the room, censorship or more specifically the removal of Blu’s antiwar mural from MoCA. Perhaps they did not want to offend Jeffery Deitch who was in the audience.

The reception proved interesting with LA Raw setting out a long print of Blu’s mural before it’s removal as well as an image of the whitewashed wall. They also handed out some condom’s reading “Don’t be blu Deitch, Practice safe art.

My friend and fellow board member at Self Help Graphics, Rudy Espinoza and I got to chat a bit with Deitch but he seemed a bit frazzled and anxious to get out of there. Go figure.