Artemio Rodriguez
Artemio Rodriguez was born in Tacambaro, Michoacan Mexico
in 1972. He came to the United States in 1994 and lived
for a time in Los Angeles, where he began the work that
would ultimately become the Lotería series. After
years of working in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay
area, Rodriguez founded La Mano Press in Los Angeles, California
in 2002. La Mano Press is an artist-run center dedicated
to the promotion and appreciation of printmaking. While
La Mano continues in operation, Rodriguez has returned
to Mexico to found a press and teach his printmaking methods
to a new generation of Mexican artists.
Now residing in Tacámbaro, Michoacán,
he is currently the driving force behind El Huerto, Centro
de Ecologia y Artes (The Orchard, Center for Ecology and
Arts). He is currently involved in efforts to rebuild an
existing adobe structure to be used as a print studio,
art gallery and library dedicated to traditional Mexican
art forms.
While he has worked in a variety of mediums,
printmaking is where he feels he has found his home. In
addition to prints, he has worked on a number of illustrated
books and portfolios of prints.
For more information:
Working with Sylivia Capistrain and Daniel
Gonzalez, he has created an interesting small film that can
be viewed on YouTube at: View film
