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The Beautiful Girls No. 1
The Beautiful Girls No. 4
The Beautiful Girls No. 3

Diana Guerrero-Maciá

The Beautiful Girls

Diana Guerrero-­Maciá served as the Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist in March 2017. She developed four prints during her one-week residency, working alongside master printer Tom Reed and Sam Fox School students.

Guerrero-Maciá’s suite of prints coincides with a larger body of work titled The Other Ones, reflecting on critical concerns about race and bodies using hybrid references of otherness. The prints also nod to the important influence of collage artist Hannah Hoch. Guerrero-Maciá cites Hoch’s series From an Ethnographic Museum and specifically the 1920 collage The Beautiful Girl—the titular subject of this suite of prints.

About the artist

Diana Guerrero-Maciá is known for her hybrid or “unpainted paintings"—work fabric cutwork, collage, stitching and dye that challenge boundaries between "high” art and craft.
The artist lifts the paper from the plate with help from a student
Piles of collage material in plastic bags
Artist Diane Guerrero-Maciá making a monotype while two students watch
Artist working in the print shop, looking at collage material
some collage materials laid out on table
artist with student helpers in print shop
collagraph plate with color and markings on it
light blue inked rolled out on glass slab in print shop
Artist Diana Guerrero Maciá and current student Savannah Bustillo work together to print sheets of Japanese paper to use for chine collé.
Collage materials
Diana working on a monotype plate with the help of students Hille Sennott and Anna Olsen.
Printer Tom Reed and Director Lisa Bulawsky working with Diana as the project starts to take shape.
PROOF BROCHURE WITH ESSAY BY Erin Dziedzic

Editions from this project

Image of printed texted head shape with circles of white and yellow and human eyes throughout
Image of cut-out circle shapes in red, light taupe, and black with cut-out circles of human eyes with make-up on them
Image of textured taupe circle with cut-out circles of human eyes, light blue, light taupe, and a black frayed rectangle shape
image of various circles in red, taupe and white polka dot, and a human eye with a frayed yellow round shape placed to the right of the circle shapes