Wednesday, November 24, 2010

"The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals"














 The destruction of the Enrique Chagoya lithograph "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals" by Kathleen Folden at the Loveland Museum Gallery was the direct result of inflammatory and false descriptions of the print.

The premeditated destruction was fomented by the defamation of Enrique Chagoya and his work by Daryle Klassen, Deacon Edward Armijo, Fox News, news Channels 4 and 9, The Denver Post and many other news media, blogs and individuals. They all made statements that the lithograph “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals” was “smut,” “filth,” “porn,” “obscene,” and depicted “Jesus having oral sex”. Statements that were unfounded and not proven.

We deplore the violence and intolerance of this act. It is an insidious form of coercive censorship.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Now Available!

The new book, The Legend of Bud Shark and his Indelible Ink, is now available! 

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at MCA DENVER, Cydney Payton, Curator, Feb 3 – June 28, 2009.  The book includes eighty-two prints by ten artists who have created works on paper with Master Printer Bud Shark over the past thirty-three years. Cydney Payton, Editor
Texts by the Artists, Curator and Master Printer.
Artists included: John Buck, Enrique Chagoya, Bernard Cohen, Red Grooms, Jane Hammond, Don Ed Hardy, Robert Kushner, Hung Liu, Hollis Sigler and Betty Woodman.
Hardbound, 228 pages, 12 x 10”, 111 color plates with two 40” gatefolds.
Craig Okino, Designer
$60.00 plus packing and shipping.
Available from Shark's Ink.

Distributed by:
DAP/Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
155 Sixth Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013
1-800-338-BOOK
www.artbook.com
Published by Hardy Marks Publications