Print Launch: Diana Guerrero-Maciá

4:00 - 6:00 PM   Print Launch | Open to the Public
6:30 - 9:00 PM   Ticketed Dinner | Diana Guerrero-Maciá in conversation with Fred Sasaki, The Poetry Foundation | $95 | RSVP

On Friday, April 24, join us for a first Chicago viewing of two colorful new screenprints by Diana Guerrero-Maciá, published by Process/Process. Each new work articulates Guerrero-Maciá’s current fascination with flowers–specifically for these prints–poppies, at the precipice of abstraction. For Guerrero-Maciá, an artist working in the expanded fields of painting and textiles, to work in a printshop became an exercise in "letting the way inform the outcome." In her printing sessions at Process/Process, she played with inks mixed to an array of colors inspired by fabrics, experimented with Ben-Day dots, cut and placed shapes in paper, and handpainted films. 

Diana Guerrero-Maciá’s art practice questions both Modernist and Post-Modernist approaches to form and content. She is known for her hybrid paintings that are constructed from textiles, in addition to collaged works on paper, and designed functional sculptures.  Her abstract work engages with language, iconography, symbols, and color while embodying the expressive context of Latine exile and migration.  Guerrero-Maciá is a Lenore Tawney Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellow, and MacDowell Fellow.  She is currently a Presidential Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber & Material Studies and Painting & Drawing.

Diana’s artworks are held in multiple public and private collections. She has exhibited at The John Michael Kohler Art Center; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Artpace, San Antonio; Elmhurst Museum; and the Crocker Art Museum, Secrist-Beach Gallery, Traywick Contemporary, among other galleries and institutions.