Description
Beautifully vibrant colors in this work of art by Amado Pena Jr. Titled ”Sombras”, this serigraph is a limited edition signed and framed.
Hand pulled, limited edition serigraph. Edition of 55, printed in 1984. This art piece measures: 36in x 28in framed.
This Serigraph is part of a collection. Contact us if you wish to purchase without the frame, are interested in multiple pieces, or if you have any questions.
About the Artist:
Amado Pena Jr. American Artist: B. 1943. Amado Pena Jr.’s art focuses on Hispanic and Native American figures and has been described as capturing the essence of the Southwest. Pena, a mestizo of Mexican and Yaqui Indian descent, was born in 1943 and raised in Laredo, Texas.
He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees at Texas A & I University in Kingsville, Texas and was an art teacher in Texas public schools for sixteen years. Pena is known for his humanitarian efforts, and his fund-raising activities have benefited charities such as the March of Dimes, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Native American Rights Fund and the Mexican American Legal and Educational Fund. The Amado and JB Pena “Art Has Heart” Foundation, established in 1994, provides opportunities for low and modest income students in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona to further their education in the arts.
ARTIST STATEMENT
AMADO M. PEÑA: My name is Amado M. Peña, Jr., and I was born in Laredo, Texas in 1943 and currently make my home in Nambé, New Mexico, that’s out of Santa Fe, where I have a ranch, and I have my work-in studio. Mestizo is a term that I became familiar with back in the late ‘60s. I was attending graduate school, and we were in the middle of what some people call the Chicano Revolution. As a student, we were very much involved with trying to portray imagery that had to do with what was currently going on in the United States, which was pretty much brought out by the farm workers strike in California, and it kind of trickled down into Texas.
The work is done in a serigraph medium, which is sometimes called silk screen. All the colors that you see on the print are actually hand cut with a stencil that is then applied to a screen. The ink is then squeegeed through the screen on to portray the different images. The main theme of the print has to do with the tri-culture as we know it, the mixture of the indigenous and the Spanish to give us what would currently be referred to as a Mexican or Latino, so it’s a mixture of three different cultures. This is what I tried to depict in the piece. It is to represent the three cultures and to give tribute to the people. It’s part of a major series of works that I did back then.
I was one of the very first screen printers in Texas. There was a lot done in California, and it slowly finally trickled down into Texas, but my work was one of the first to be represented in this particular medium, so there is a body of approximately 40 or 50 pieces that kind of represent that period of time.”
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