A detail from the mural, The Conductor, created in December in Miami.

Four color serigraph with one gold metallic, one silver metallic and one pearlescent white on grey Stonehenge archival rag paper.
Edition of 50 prints signed and numbered by the artist.
First ever collaborative print from The Mac and Retna
Printed by Karen Fiorito at Buddhacat Press.
Produced by Mike Russek, Karen Fiorito and Deborah Vogt at Dialect LA.
When and Where it is:
Limited presale prints will be available starting at 5pm Thursday, February 11th at
the Grand Opening of Dialect Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles (www.downtowndialect.com) and Saturday at Lucent L’amour (www.lucentlamour.com). Available online starting at Noon on Monday, February 15th.
Please email info@downtowndialect.com with any questions or for further details.

As much as I truly love the output fom these guys, I really feel that this was a weak image to select for their first collaborative print. In my opinion, this would've worked so much better (and is more representative of their work together):

RPM

it is nearly impossible to get a boner from this

::Yawn::

Not sure if this is the "source" biggie is talking about, but they had a couple of copies at the Street Legal show @ Rivera & Rivera Gallery in L.A. up until recently. Cost was $250. They had them up on their website, but it now says "0 in stock." You may want to contact them to confirm as it is possible they may have extras or know where to get one. Best of luck.

RPM

big ups all three of you for the helpful information...
appreciate it much!

I would love to get an El Mac in my collection and this might have to be the one.

I can't wait for this to arrive! I bought the El Mac/Retna "The Conductor" print and it's simply amazing. It looks 3d without the glasses!

A very sick artist indeed, but not too keen on the colours in this print.
Also surprised that the original took a month to paint when his murals can go up in days - I suppose that's a difference between painting with acrylic and with cans.

A

Anyone got theirs?

I've just got mine, but still in the tube as I think about framing ideas. It's massive so won't be cheap. Probably floated on a red background or something......

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present The Humble and Sublime, an exhibition of new paintings by Miles “El Mac” MacGregor, a Phoenix-based mixed-media artist best known for graffiti-influenced mural projects worldwide. This is Mac’s debut solo show at Joshua Liner.

Working in acrylic on panel, spray paint on canvas, and mixed media on paper, Mac’s gallery-size works echo many of the themes, styles, and techniques seen in his large-scale mural projects. Foremost is the dynamic relationship of figure to ground. Inspired by cultures around the globe—from Mexico to Thailand—Mac generates an endless vocabulary of graphic patterns that serve as an active, signifying backdrop to lovingly detailed and humane portraits.

Children, women, and respected elderly figures (often depicted in monochrome) are all featured amid colorful fields of repeating marks—doodles, graffiti, even proto- language characters—which are transformed into vibrant overall pattern. Against this sea of marks, the carefully rendered and shaded figures take on added poignancy as all-too-human subjects caught in their “cultural context.” In the works omprising The Humble and Sublime, this mark-making mania infiltrates the figure itself, creeping across expanses of skin to infuse these subjects with an electric hum. They exist in multiple states—as portrait subjects with individual identities and as picture surfaces recording the pervasive creep of culture’s stamp.

An Arizona native, Mac draws inspiration from the surrounding Mexican and Chicano culture of the American Southwest, as well as religious art, pinup art, graffiti, and a wide range of canonical artists, including Caravaggio, Mucha, and Vermeer. In the late ’90s Mac began to paint large, technicolor aerosol versions of
classic paintings by European masters. This led to a commission in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Bruges, Belgium, to paint interpretations of classic Flemish Primitive paintings from the museum’s collection—a peerless example of “the humble and sublime.”

Born in 1980 in Los Angeles, El Mac grew up in Phoenix, AZ, where he continues to live and work. Solo exhibitions include: Vagos y Reinas (with Retna), Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica; Faces of Life, Fifty24SF, San Francisco (both 2009); and Mac in Montreal, Galerie Le Kopshop, Montreal, Canada (2007). Group exhibitions featuring works by Mac have included: Art for All, a public mural project in Seville, Spain; Series Queridos, Museo MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico (both 2010); Primary Flight II & III at Art Basel Miami Beach (2008 and 2009); Burn, Grand Central Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton (2007); and Alt + Ctrl, Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine (2004). Two murals by Mac, created in 2008 and 2009 with the artist Retna, are part of the Margulies Collection in Miami. Additionally, Mac has received commissions to conduct public art projects in cities worldwide, including Milan, Amsterdam, Suwon (South Korea), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Paris, Antwerp, Mexico City, and at the Denver Botanic Gardens.


El Mac
Acrylic on panel
2010
48 x 36 in.




El Mac
Spray paint on burlap
2010
78 x 60 in.

Here is a link to a new process video by El Mac showing him painting one of the new acrylic on panel works for this exhibit:

joshualinergallery.com/exhibitions/mac_the_humble_and_sublime_october_14_2010/video/

You can view more of Mac's videos on his vimeo page including some of his mural collaborations with Retna and Kofie:

vimeo.com/elmac

There will not be a new print for the show unfortunately.

The preview link was just sent out, here it is for anyone interested:

joshualinergallery.com/preview/mac_the_humble_and_sublime_october_14_2010/selectedworks/all/

Any inquiries should be sent directly to the gallery - info@joshualinergallery.com