Featuring approximately one hundred works drawn from the Chrysler Museum of Art’s collection, many of which have never been on view before, Oaxaca Central: Contemporary Mexican Printmaking offers a glimpse of the exciting and diverse art scene in Oaxaca de Juárez. Known simply as Oaxaca, the city a rich history as a center for the arts that encompasses a variety of historic and contemporary practices.

The results are visible to anyone walking the streets of Oaxaca’s city center, where printmaking talleres, or workshops, dot many of the city’s blocks. They range from formal workshops producing portfolios of fine art prints to spaces mass producing prints for tourist consumption. The artists work in a variety of printmaking methods, including woodcut, engraving, etching, lithography, and serigraphy, sometimes combining multiple techniques to create innovative new approaches. While for some, the exploration of the material potential of printmaking supersedes the work’s subject or content, for others the medium is only the vehicle to touch upon themes of urban culture, the natural world, or contemporary politics. Regardless, Oaxacan printmakers’ reputation for technical mastery and innovation has attracted foreign artists from across the globe, who’ve flocked to Oaxaca’s talleres to learn and collaborate with local artists.

Oaxaca Central Passport

• 1. Grab a passport.
• 2. When you attend a listed event or visit a listed partner, ask for a passport stamp.
• 3. After collecting four or more of the nine stamps, return to the Chrysler Museum and show your passport to the Welcome Desk.
• 4. Choose from a free ticket to the April 25 Ignite: INK (18+), or a limited edition print made in the exhibition workshop, exclusively for passport participants.

This exhibition is organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art, and curated by Mark A. Castro, Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Alejandra Bustamente, Consulting Curator.

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