Leovigildo martinez biography books
Publications - Martinez has illustrated three children"s book (with author Matthew Gollub), The Twenty-five Mixtec Cats, The Moon Was at a Fiesta and Uncle....
October 6, 2006 to December 30, 2006
Indigo Arts’ show of prints from Oaxaca is selected from the summer’s exhibition of prints and paintings, De la Tierra de los Sueños / From the Land of Dreams.
Leovigildo Martinez is a published illustrator of children's books.
Dating from 1986 to the present, the Oaxacan prints bring the story of Mexican printmaking up to the present.. While the landscape, customs, mythology and political struggles they depict are specific to Oaxaca of the last two decades, the work carries on the great Mexican print-making tradition that runs from Guadalupe Posada through Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros and Tamayo.
In twenty years of exhibiting the artists of Oaxaca, Mexico the owners of Indigo Arts Gallery have seen Oaxaca grow into the most vibrant regional art center in Mexico.
The mountainous southern Mexico state has long been known as a center for folk art production, including its famous black pottery, weavings, and carved wooden animals. Oaxaca has also produced three of the leading masters of 20th century Mex
