Los Angeles-based painter Heather Gwen Martin works at the edge of hard abstraction — where color becomes almost physical, with flourishes of elegant movement akin to dancing. Her palette is hot and bright, with hand-mixed tones that play off each …
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About the Artwork
Tony Mendoza’s Lydia and Halloween series chronicles his daughter Lydia across four different Halloween costumes, photographed over the course of her life. Each print is hand-dated by the artist to the year the photograph was taken — not the year it was printed — a deliberate choice that roots each image in its own moment. Mendoza also includes a brief handwritten description beneath each image, offering the viewer a short story within the larger arc of the series.
An experienced printer himself, Mendoza printed each work in the series personally. Every print is an archival pigment print, produced using a lab-calibrated inkjet with pigment-based inks on Canson Baryta paper — a surface developed specifically for inkjet technology that replicates the look and feel of an original darkroom print, making it a natural choice for black and white photography of this depth and intimacy.
