Star Montana, East LA Landscape, 2021
Star Montana, East LA Landscape, 2021
Star Montana
East LA Landscape, 2021
Serigraph, Edition of 60
Paper Size: 22x30 in.
Image Size: 18x23 in.
East LA Landscape was initially a photograph taken by the artist in 2014. The print captures a meditative Winter scene at sunset from a City Terrace hilltop. Growing up in Boyle Heights, where there are not too many hills, Star and her friends would frequent the hills of City Terrace to meditate and reflect. Star attempted to photograph this scene multiple times, but the quality was not good enough. After finally capturing the image to her satisfaction and loving the results, she wanted to transform the photo into a serigraph – a four-color CMYK print. *The statement was taken from an interview with the artist.
Maestrxs Atelier:
This Maestras Atelier is made of a wide range of artists from seasoned to emerging and with varying experiences in screen-printing from well versed to new to the medium. The artists were chosen for the bold attitudes displayed in their creative practices. It was the intention of this atelier to highlight those voices and their thoughts in this strange time of rethinking our lives and creative practices. Because of the pandemic, these artists have all worked with SHG in varying capacities to complete a screenprint for the Maestras Atelier.
Artist Biography:
Star Montana is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work. Her work has recently been exhibited at Charlie James Gallery (2019, 2016); Residency Art Gallery (2018); LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes (2018); Occidental College (2017); The Mexican Center for Culture and Cinematic Arts at the Mexican Consulate General of Mexico (2017); The Main Museum (2017); Ballroom Marfa (2017); and Vincent Price Art Museum (2016). Montana will be an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2020. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Art from the University of Southern California, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, and an Associate of Arts in Photography from East Los Angeles College.