Richard Duardo

Richard Duardo The Screamers Serigraph 1980 AP1220

Regular price $2,000.00

The kanji on the right leads us to suppose this was designed as an album or cd cover for the Japanese market. It also became a famous print in a larger format. As it stands you couldn't find a finer time capsule of the exhilarating mix of LA culture in the 80s, a seminal punk band imaged by a seminal Chicano artist.

Measures 11 1/4" x 11 1/4". Unsigned.

From his LA Times obituary bDavid Colker Nov. 16, 2014

Master art printer Richard Duardo, who was a pivotal figure in the Chicano art community in Los Angeles, died Tuesday at home in Los Angeles. He was 62.

A gregarious, prominent figure in the downtown arts scene, he worked as a printer with numerous world-famous artists, including David Hockney, Keith Haring and Banksy. And his own creations — silk-screen portraits of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Che Guevara, Lauren Bacall and many others — were highly praised. But it was his support for young artists, especially in the Chicano community, that brought forth dozens of online tributes after his death and a growing memorial of candles, photos and other objects outside his downtown print studio, Modern Multiples.

Duardo was born May 15, 1952, in Boyle Heights. He graduated from Franklin High School in Highland Park and studied art at Pasadena Community College and UCLA, where he got a master’s degree in fine art.

 

But after college he felt that he was in danger of straying from his roots. “I was determined to find myself again, and who I really was as a Chicano,” he said in a videotaped interview for KCET. “I went straight back to the neighborhood I was born in.” After working with the famed Self-Help Graphics arts center that specializes in printmaking, Duardo was a co-founder in the late 1970s of the Centro de Arte Público, a highly political arts collective in Highland Park.


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