Artworks included in the exhibition represent a cross-section of an innovative and fruitful collaboration between a renowned artist and master printmakers. Tamayo had been earning acclaim since the 1920s, while living in Mexico, New York and France. In the early 1970s, he began a twenty year collaboration with Luis and Lea Remba at their workshop in Mexico City, experimenting with techniques that yielded works on paper with volume and texture. This unique approach to printing developed by the Remba family is known as “Mixografía®”.

The Mixografía® Workshop editions in the Meridian exhibition represent one-fifth of Tamayo’s total printmaking output during his lifetime and are a fascinating excursus into the extraordinary plasticity of paper. Since Tamayo’s pioneering work with the Rembas, Mixografía® has influenced artists in the United States and elsewhere, and the studio, later transferred from Mexico City to Los Angeles, continues to attract those who wish to expand the limits of this two-dimensional medium.

The exhibition, made possible in part by Tyco International, Meryl and Honorable Michael Chertoff, Giselle and Ben Huberman, Stephen Lesser, and Michael and Linda Sonnenreich, will be accompanied by programs created in partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C.