WORKS ON PAPER
Supporting Pocoapoco Residencies, Programs & Artists
The Works on Paper sale was created with the support of 30 former residents & collaborators. These artists and their works - spanning mediums, languages and borders - represent the power of creative work to bring people together and a shared desire for expression, connection, and change through art.
with works by
Luvia Lazo, Colleen Herman, Marco Velasco Martínez, Mariana Garibay Raeke, Cheryl Humphreys, Santiago Rojo, Kimmy Quillin, Ana Hernández, Alfonso Barrera, Julia Norton, Tracie Lee, Daphne Arthur, Kate Berry, Gabriella Picone, Julio Barrita, Yatiní Domínguez, Miguel Cinta Robles, Dell Alvarado, Luna Antonia Arboleda, justine nguyen-nguyen, Sara Marlowe Hall, Argelia Matus, Johanna Palmieri, Lauren Oliver, Dora Somosi, Owyn Ruck & Sara Gates
Featured work: Metamorph 4 by Tracie Lee
Works
Proceeds of these works support individual artists as well as residency & education programs fostering creative practice and dialogue for local & international artists and communities. Pocoapoco is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Works on Paper sales are 50-100% tax-deductible. To see the tax deductible amount for each work click here.
Artist: Luvia Lazo (b.1990, Teotitlan de Valle, Oax, Mexico)
$445.00 USD
Read more about Luvia in the New Yorker, the 400 Years Project and on her website.
Artist: Yatiní Domínguez (b.1996, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$1200.00 USD
Read more about Yati’s work at CASA, Ojo Tres, Cimbra, and Arch Daily.
Artist: Daphne Arthur (b. 1984, Caracas, Venezuela)
$2000.00 USD
Read more about Daphne on her Wikipedia page here and her website here.
8.5 x 10”
Pastel on acid-free opaline paper
Miguel Cinta Robles lives between Oaxaca and Mexico City. He studied at the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires and studied visual arts at ENPEG Esmeralda. His interests focus on building strategies and models that make it possible to create spaces for socialization and learning outside of academic circuits. He is the curator and founder of Margarita, a research space in Oaxaca de Juárez focused on the fusion of technologies such as sculpture and agroecology. At the same time, he manages "Domingo de cerro" a project dedicated to generating walks, workshops and activations in the mountains of Oaxaca and other states of the republic. These walks seek to integrate the fields of biology, ecology and the arts with the political contexts of the territories. Currently, he collaborates in the reforestation and eco-construction project "Terreno Familiar" where he is dedicated to planting, building with earth and researching eco-technologies and ways to achieve food sovereignty and live in interdependence with the earth.
Artist: Miguel Cinta Robles (b.1997, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$150.00 USD
See more of Miguel’s work in Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Arte Abierto and on their website.
24 x 18 "
Ink on paper
2023
Colleen Herman (B. 1982, Baltimore, MD) is an artist who works with polychromatic multimedia on natural surfaces. Herman earned a BFA from Syracuse University in 2004. She has held two solo exhibitions at Sarah Brook Gallery and participated in group shows at The Hole, Los Angeles, Zurcher Gallery, New York, Lovaas Projects, Munich, Germany, La Señora Gallery, Oaxaca, Mexico, and others. She will have a solo show at Olympia Gallery, New York, opening December 2023. She has completed two residencies in Oaxaca, Mexico at pocoapoco in 2018 and 2019, and one in March 2022 at Casa Balandra in Mallorca, Spain. Herman currently lives and works in New York City.
Artist: Colleen Herman (b. 1982, Baltimore, MD, USA)
$1500.00 USD
Read more about Colleen’s work at Curate LA, Ed Varie, and Sarah Brook Gallery.
15" x 11"
Soft Pastel on Cotton Paper
2022
Sara Marlowe Hall (b. 1991) is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist. Hall studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany and received a BA Honors Degree in Drawing from the Camberwell College of Arts, London, United Kingdom. She has exhibited work in Los Angeles, London, Shanghai, Portugal, Leipzig, and Abu Dhabi. Hall has been invited to multiple residencies around the world including Varda Artist Residency, Poco A Poco and Salmon Creek Farm. Her work is inspired by abstract landscapes and works with drawing, sculpture and painting.
Artist: Sara Marlowe Hall (b.1991, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
$950.00 USD
Read more about Sara’s work and exhibitions at Keystone Art Space and her website
10 x 15.5”
Monotype on cotton paper
2023
Johanna Palmieri, an artist based in Oaxaca, Mexico, explores the elusive fusion of figures and abstraction in painting. Her art delves into the multi-faceted intricacies of the human experience, drawing inspiration from the beauty and contradictions of life, while searching for through lines connecting our modern lives with those of our antecedents.
Artist: Johanna Palmieri (b.1991, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)
$150.00 USD
Read more about Johanna on her website.
19.5 x 27.5 "
Collage on cotton paper
2022
He was born in Oaxaca. Collection, transformation, and intervention are some of the strategies he uses to build a relationship with the world through art. He currently lives and works in Oaxaca City. He is a member of Estudios Benito Juárez. He holds a Master's Degree in Artistic Production, has been a FONCA fellow of Young Creators program in the 2014-2015, 2016-2017, and 2019-2020 cycles. In 2013 he was awarded the Roberto Villagraz scholarship in Spain and was also the winner of the Hector García biennial. He has exhibited individually and collectively in Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Chile, Spain, the United States, and Canada
Artist: Julio Barrita (b.1988, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$850.00 USD
See more of Julio’s work in EFTI | Centro Internacional de Fotografia y Cine and Art Souterrain.
19 x 27.5"
Earth pigment, soot, and ink on cotton paper
2023
Visual Artist from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. She places her work within the contemporary, reflecting on a concern for her cultural identity, collective memory, and her mother tongue, the Zapotec. Since 2016 she has collaborated with the Gubidxa Gallery located in her community. Her work reflects on the idea of identity and how we build experiences from daily life and the collective. Intervention and appropriation are part of her process to highlight the traditional from the contemporary. She also proposes questions about the sense of belonging and the construction of space and how it is formed through collective memory, attachment, affective ties, and all the objects with which we build our identity.
Artist: Dell Alvarado (b.1985, Istmo de Tehuantepec, OAX, Mexico)
$250.00 USD
Read more about Dell’s work in Des Informemonos and El Muro MX.
29 3/4 x 43 3/4"
Stencil print on gold leaf
2022
Ana Hernández is a visual artist from the Isthmus region of Oaxaca. She uses traditional techniques such as weaving and embroidery to discuss critical issues that have been present throughout her life: migration, the loss of native languages, the transmission of traditional knowledge. Her work reflects knowledge inherited from the women in her family and her community. Through the use of materials such as gold leaf, natural fibers and clay, Hernández expands the physical and conceptual possibilities of the popular trades of her land that are being forgotten. Her work was recently included in an exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Art in Mexico City and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.
Artist: Ana Hernández (b. 1991, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Oax, Mexico)
$4,500.00 USD
Read more about Ana and her work on her Wikipedia page and at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo.
9x11.5”
Collage on handmade paper (made by Alberto Valenzuela at Papel Oaxaca) with natural pigments (bone black, lapis lazuli, ochre, and cochineal chalk pastel), indigo and pericon dyed yarn, black copal, pigeon feather from New York City, and polaroid.
2023
Julia Norton is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. In her art practice, research, and education work she explores the unique qualities and legacies of natural color materials - such as ochres, mineral pigments, and plant based inks and dyes. She holds an MFA from SUNY Purchase and an Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has exhibited at galleries such as Lyles & King, The Wassaic Project, and Dread Lounge, and has participated in residencies at The Wassaic Project, Cooper Union, Mass MoCA, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (BC, Canada), SIM Residency (Reykjavik, Iceland), and Pocoapoco (Oaxaca, Mexico). She has worked as an educator at New Museum, Pioneer Works, Swiss Institute, Abrons Art Center, Dia:Beacon, and Harvard Art Museums.
19 x 27.5"
Earth pigment, soot, and ink on cotton paper
2023
Visual Artist from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. She places her work within the contemporary, reflecting on a concern for her cultural identity, collective memory, and her mother tongue, the Zapotec. Since 2016 she has collaborated with the Gubidxa Gallery located in her community. Her work reflects on the idea of identity and how we build experiences from daily life and the collective. Intervention and appropriation are part of her process to highlight the traditional from the contemporary. She also proposes questions about the sense of belonging and the construction of space and how it is formed through collective memory, attachment, affective ties, and all the objects with which we build our identity.
Helios and Phaëthon and the Horses Went Wild
Artist: Julia Norton (b.1985, NY, USA)
$485.00 USD
Read more about Julia’s work at the Queens Museum, DIA Beacon and Wild Pigment Project.
Artist: Dell Alvarado (b.1985, Istmo de Tehuantepec, OAX, Mexico)
$250.00 USD
Read more about Dell’s work in Des Informemonos and El Muro MX.
Artist: Sara Gates (b. 1977, USA)
$250.00 USD
Read more about Sara’s work at MOMA, Kingsland Editions, and ArtFrankly
Artist: Johanna Palmieri (b.1991, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)
$150.00 USD
Read more about Johanna on her website.
Artist: Tracie Lee (b.1978, USA)
$400.00 USD
Read more about Tracie’s work at The NY Times and on her website
Artist: justine nguyễn-nguyễn (b. 1997, USA)
$350.00 USD
See more of Justine’s previous work, her stitching work and talismans.
10 x 21”
Photoengraving and dry point on copper
Printed on cotton fabric
Marco Velasco is a visual artist. He studied graphic arts at Mesoamerican University, the Arts Center of San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca, and in the Faculty of Arts and Design, UNAM, Mexico. In 2014 as part of the Visual Arts Master, he spent a semester at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. In 2015 founded Espacio Pino Suárez, a space dedicated to printmaking and visual arts in Oaxaca, Mexico. Recently he was a resident at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis. He is part of ObraS.A. a group of Oaxacan contemporary artists. His work has been shown in Mexico, Austria, Spain and EUA.
Cuentan que lo alto vive una mujer que teje la noche
Artist: Argelia Matus (b.1997, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$245.00 USD
Read more about Argelia’s work in the Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Gjelina, and ASICH.
Artist: Miguel Cinta Robles (b.1997, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$150.00 USD
See more of Miguel’s work in Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Arte Abierto and on their website.
Pochote Tree, Sacred Tree at Poco a Poco (edition of 5)
Dora Somosi (b. 1975, Budapest, Hungary)
$900.00 USD
Read more about Dora’s work at Klompching Gallery and on her website.
Artist: Luna Antonia Arboleda (b.1991, Starnberg, Germany)
$500.00 USD
See more of Luna’s work on her website.
10 x 23.5”
Photoengraving on cotton paper
2022
Visual Artist who has participated in different residencies and specialization courses such as the CaSa Visual Arts Production Diploma. Recent solo exhibitions include Dry Season and Concrete Landscape in Oaxaca. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, England, Brazil, Ecuador, the United States, Lebanon and Venezuela. He was selected for the XII FEMSA biennial and international video art festivals including nodoCCS and the Urbs International Video Art and Experimental Video Exhibition. He was a recipient of the 2018-2019 FONCA Young Creators scholarship and the CAST artistic residency in Cornwall, England (2023). His work is part of several catalogs and collections such as the Museum of Philately of the city of Oaxaca (MUFI), the FEMSA collection, the collection of the Museum of the Chancellery and the Toledo / INBA collection.
Paisaje (Fragment and Memory) II
Artist: Santiago Rojo (b.1989, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$190.00 USD
Read more about Santiago at CAST, and on his website.
Artist: Cheryl Humphreys (b. 1986 Ithaca, NY, USA)
$1000.00 USD
Read more about Cheryl in Artnet, Artspace, and on her website.
Artist: Kate Berry (b.1983, UK)
$200.00 USD
Read more about Kate in ShoutoutLA, dublab and on her website.
Artist: Colleen Herman (b. 1982, Baltimore, MD, USA)
$1,500.00 USD
Read more about Colleen’s work at Curate LA, Ed Varie, and Sarah Brook Gallery.
Artist: Miguel Cinta Robles (b.1997, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$150.00 USD
See more of Miguel’s work in Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Arte Abierto
and on their website.
Record of the pressure on the body
Artist: Marco Antonio Velasco Martínez (b.1989, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$1,000.00 USD
Artist: Kimmy Quillin (b. 1983 La Crosse, WI, USA)
$650.00 USD
See more of Kimmy’s paintings and commissions.
Artist: Mariana Garibay Raeke (b. Guadalajara, Mexico)
$300.00
Read more about Mariana’s work at MAD Museum, The Chimney NYC, and Artnet
Artist: Santiago Rojo (b.1989, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$500.00
Read more about Santiago at CAST, and on his website.
Medium: Woven linen, ink
Year: 2023
Dimensions: Artwork: ~12x12; Framed: 18x18
Owyn Ruck is an artist and holistic practitioner currently based in the Western Catskills, and originally from Brooklyn, NY. Along with her partner, Damian, she facilitates a space called Succurro — an evolving collaborative creative project. In addition to private practice and teaching, she develops and oversee all creative and educational programs at Succurro which integrate the various therapies she have studied for many years in service of the collective.
Her artistic and therapeutic practices are intimately linked. Working primarily in hand-based processes, she focuses on the slow, curious, humanizing aspects of working with her hands as a way of returning to a natural state of inquiry.
to understand / to stand under, #5
Artist: Owyn Ruck (b. 1985, Brooklyn, NY, USA)
$275.00 USD
Read more about Owyn’s work on the site of her project Succurro and on her personal website.
Acrylic on paper
12 x 16”
Kimmy Quillin is a painter and dyer whose work can be seen on the walls of Good Move, Brooklyn as well as in the New York Times, Elle Decoration UK, Domino Magazine, Elle Decor online, West Elm and at Uprise Art. She presented her solo shows 10OX (2018) and Many Moons (2019) at Chinatown Soup and at Philadelphia gallery Spite Haus in January 2020. Quillin was honored to stay at the Pocoapoco residency in Oaxaca, Mexico in February 2020 and returned for "The Language of Making" workshop in 2023. Quillin lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Artist: Johanna Palmieri (b.1991, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)
$150.00 USD
Read more about Johanna on her website.
Artist: Kimmy Quillin (b. 1983 La Crosse, WI, USA)
$300.00 USD
See more of Kimmy’s paintings and commissions.
Artist: Lauren Oliver (b. 1992, NYC, NY, USA)
$250.00 USD
Read more about Lauren and her work in f-stop magazine, Center for Performance Research, and on her website.
Artist: Mariana Garibay Raeke (b. Guadalajara, Mexico)
$300.00 USD
Read more about Mariana’s work at MAD Museum, The Chimney NYC, and in Artnet.
Artist: Sara Gates (b. 1977, USA)
$250.00 USD
Read more about Sara’s work at MOMA, Kingsland Editions, and ArtFrankly
Artist: Yatiní Domínguez (b.1996, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$1,200.00 USD
Read more about Yati’s work at CASA, Ojo Tres, Cimbra, and Arch Daily.
Artist: Luna Antonia Arboleda (b.1991, Starnberg, Germany)
$500.00 USD
See more of Luna’s work on her website.
Artist: Gabriella Picone (b. 1988, NY, USA)
$900.00 USD
Read more about Gabriella in Architectural Digest, Sight Unseen and Surface Mag.
Artist: Cheryl Humphreys (b. 1986 Ithaca, NY, USA)
$1000.00 USD
Read more about Cheryl in Artnet, Artspace, and on her website.
Digital Print on cotton paper
11 x 16"
2023
Casa Abierta is an annual festival of contemporary performing arts that promotes a network of creation, research, teaching, and professional performance focused on the living arts from and for Oaxaca. This is a still from Los Grises, a piece by Nadia Lartigue.
Artist: Marco Antonio Velasco Martínez (b.1989, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico)
$850.00 USD
Digital Print on cotton paper
11 x 16"
2023
Casa Abierta is an annual festival of contemporary performing arts that promotes a network of creation, research, teaching, and professional performance focused on the living arts from and for Oaxaca. This is a still from Los Grises, a piece by Nadia Lartigue.