serieproject

Hello!

Thank you for visiting our Etsy shop. All of our fine art prints are produced by hand at Coronado Studio as a part of our artist in residence program, the Serie Project.

The Serie Project is a Latino based arts nonprofit which promotes, produces, and exhibits fine art serigraphs.

But what is a serigraph exactly?

A serigraph is a piece of limited edition art that is produced by serigraphy, or fine art silkscreen printing. Serigraphy, made famous by pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann, is a labor-intensive printmaking technique that uses fabric screens as stencils. At the Serie Project, each artist begins printmaking by drawing his or her original design onto a transparency. After applying emulsion onto a screen and exposing the transparency to UV light, the drawn image is “burned” onto the screen’s fabric. The screen becomes a stencil as the emulsion “blocks out” areas in its matrix, leaving other areas of open, porous fabric. The artist may then force ink through the screen onto paper beneath, using a squeegee to push the ink through its open areas.

Serigraphs, like most kinds of prints, are produced in editions. An edition of prints is a series of impressions based on the same design. A limited edition is a series created with the intention of producing a fixed number of prints, after which no further prints will be produced. Artists from the Serie Project individually produce and personally sign a limited edition of 50 serigraphs. No more than 50 serigraphs of each design will ever be created or sold. Moreover, each artist creates an original image that is designed specifically for their edition, unlike the designs found in reproduction prints. The latter may be considered photographic reproductions of original artwork.

Serigraphy allow artists to offer original pieces to a larger audience, and part of our mission is to make this artwork available to everyone while promoting serigraphy as a true fine art process.