UMBRAL EN COLORES

Alvaro Gomez Ulloa is a master printmaker that has become a master painter. He began his career as an artist printmaking on paper and then moved to painting on canvas. He says that his first love is print making and working with paper. His new series of limited edtion screen prints that were inaugurated at the National Gallery in San Jose this August combines his painting technique and his love of printmaking on paper.

The idea began over a year ago when Carlos Rojas suggested that Alvaro start thinking about a way to produce a screen print that represents his style of painting. Carlos had the idea that he could combine the techniques of painting, screen printing and montotyping into a series of works.

The process began with Alvaro painting the flowers in his usual technique onto acetate instead of canvas. The difference being that every color used would be on a different piece of acetate. When these various layers are stacked, the same effect as in his paintings would be generated. When he was done, there was a set of 5 acetates or films.

This is when I took over and developed the screens for screen printing. The first film was black and I printed this on paper in the usual screen printing technique. I then handed the works back over to Alvaro who began the long process of monotyping. Alvaro took each piece and individually made a monotype print over the first black color. This monotprint was in irredescent golds pewters and silvers.

Alvaro then returned the prints to me and I completed the screen printing of the last 4 colors. We produced 3 different color editions: red, blue and ochre. The final editions are:

• Umbral en rojo (Threshold in Red) Edition of 8
• Umbral en azul (Threshold in Blue) Edition of 8
• Umbral en siena (Threshold in Sienna) Edition of 8

Each print is 61 x 44 cm on paper that measures 78 x 59 cm. The price is $575. We are very excited about this new mixed media work that Alvaro has developed. If you are interested in purchasing one of these works, contact Carlos at carlos@monteazulcr.com.

To see other available works from Alvaro Gomez, go to:http://www.monteazulcr.com/en/fineart/representedartists/1/AlvaroGomez