Crash in Phthalo Green

27 colors
Printed on Coventry Cotton Rag Vellum 290gsm
Deckled edges
Edition of 125
Signed & numbered by the late artist's wife, collaborator, and fellow artist Elsa Almaraz

From the studio:

Serio Press is honored to present Crash in Phthalo Green with the estate of Carlos Almaraz. This is the first reproduction of one of his beloved car crash pieces since West Coast Crash in 1990.

This print edition has already been placed in the permanent collections of both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Museum of Fine Art Houston (MFAH) with multiple other institutional acquisitions pending. The original painting of Crash in Phthalo Green is currently in LACMA's permanent collection, and was selected as the title piece for their 2017 Carlos Almaraz retrospective Playing With Fire.

Our studio has a long and rich history with the estate of Carlos Almaraz. Prior to founding Serio Press, master printer Tony Clough worked at Modern Multiples which produced many editions with the artist. It was here that Clough first worked on editions for Carlos Almaraz, and met the artist's wife Elsa Almaraz.

Artist Bio:

Carlos Almaraz, born in Mexico City in 1941, grew up in Chicago and Los Angeles. Considered one of the preeminent members of L.A.’s Chicano School during the 1970s and ‘80s, Almaraz helped bring Chicano street art into mainstream art circles.

As a member of the Los Four collective, together with Frank Romero, Roberto de la Rocha and Gilbert Lujan, and his wife Elsa Flores Almaraz, he collaborated on many public murals in L.A. He was also a prolific painter and printmaker whose work captured the vitality and life of East Los Angeles neighborhoods such as Echo Park with bright violets, hot pinks and bloodlike reds and expressionistic paint handling.

Carlos Almaraz was the focus of a 2017 retrospective at LACMA, and his works are in the public collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum; UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, University of California, Irvine; the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; and The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, among others.

Carlos Almaraz at LACMA