Art

From large charcoal and Sumi ink mural–like drawings to sketches on found antique book pages, to a Mayan–codex inspired book, this body of work provides a panorama of Enrique Chagoya’s graphic creations. This installation showcases 19th Century bookplates, each with ghost images of illustrations, featuring the artist’s text additions and hand–drawn commentary. In all of the work, Chagoya employs his full repertoire of drawing, painting and collage talents, coaxing together cultures, geographies, heroes and antiheroes across centuries and borders, assembling conflicting iconographies. Enrique Chagoya lives in San Francisco and works at Stanford University. He recently had a solo exhibition with Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain and at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. His work is in the collections of the M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University, CA, Denver Art Museum, CO, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Chagoya is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco.