Inaugural X-CHANGE Edition:
MONICA MAJOLI & HANNA HUR
Pair of exclusive prints to benefit X-TRA
With the generous support of the artists, we are able offer this pair of prints commissioned by X-TRA for the inaugural X-CHANGE Portfolio.
Limited Edition of 25
Pair of signed and numbered prints
Available at discount price of $1750.
(Retail value estimated at ~$4000.)
We will donate 10% of edition sales ($175) to one of four nonprofit organizations of your choice: Crenshaw Dairy Mart, L.A. Art Workers Relief Fund, Equal Justice Initiative or L.A. Community Action Network.
Works in Portfolio
Hanna Hur
Moonbather, 2020
Lithograph with color pencil on Stonehenge paper, printed at El Nopal Press
Print area: 13 x 16 inches, paper: 16 x 19 inches
Monica Majoli
Blueboy Introduces Roger, 2020
Japanese woodblock print
Shoichi Kitamura, Carver. Makoto Nakayama, Printer. Sato Studio, Kyoto, Japan.
Paper: 12 x 17.5 inches
Photos by Brica Wilcox.
X-TRA X-CHANGE EDITIONS:
A new way to support X-TRA
Project X Foundation is thrilled to announce the inaugural X-CHANGE Edition with Monica Majoli and Hanna Hur. Foregrounding the exchange of ideas at the core of X-TRA, the exclusive edition series achieves two goals: 1) to offer artists—whose practices all of us here at X-TRA have deep respect for—an opportunity to produce a new work that will simultaneously provide vital support for Project X and X-TRA; and 2) make these editions a unique opportunity for ongoing and new supporters to collect new work by Los Angeles’ finest artists, both established and emerging.
We invited Monica Majoli to be our founding X-CHANGE artist. We chose Monica because of her longstanding presence in our community as both a brilliant and respected artist and educator, and we know she values the ongoing mission and contribution of X-TRA.
Monica saw the X-CHANGE invitation as an opportunity to make a Japanese mokuhanga woodblock print from her Blueboys series, named after a gay men’s magazine published in Florida from 1974 to 2007. In these works Majoli scales up images culled from the magazine through a white-line woodcut technique developed in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the early twentieth century, primarily by women printmakers who were influenced by traditional Japanese woodcuts. The print for X-TRA returns Blueboy (Roger) to his stylistic roots of the Japanese woodblock technique. She worked with esteemed carver Shoichi Kitamura and printer Keizo Sato at Sato Studio in Kyoto Japan.
Monica selected Hanna Hur to be her partner in the edition. Monica first met Hanna while she was doing her MFA at UCLA. Monica felt that Hanna’s delicate and haunting drawings would translate beautifully into prints, and she was right. This is a Hanna’s first lithograph. She worked with printer Francesco Siqueiros, founder of El Nopal Press, to translate a drawing made for X-TRA. The result is a 3-plate lithograph print, to which Hanna then applied colored pencil to each print by hand. The work expands on a series that Hanna exhibited last year at Bel Ami in Chinatown.
Hanna Hur (b. 1985, Toronto) received her MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2019 and holds a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal. She has recently exhibited at u’s, Calgary; Bel Ami, Los Angeles; Franz Kaka, Toronto; L’inconnue, Montreal; Motel Gallery, New York; Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles; The Sunroom, Richmond and Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Monica Majoli (b.1963, Los Angeles) is primarily a painter deeply invested in the traditions of the medium while exploring subjects tied to sex, sexuality, power, and alternative lifestyles such as BDSM. Her work often depicts scenes of sexual fetishism, a theme that serves as a decoy for larger underlying political concerns. Her work has been included in the Whitney Biennial, the Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. She will be included in Made in LA 2020: a version at the Hammer Museum and The Huntington this Fall.