EVENT DATE:
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 5:30pm to Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 5:00pm
Mexican Prints: The Garcia-Correa Collection celebrates the gift of sixty-one Mexican prints from local collectors Gil Garcia and Marti Correa de Garcia to the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara. Focusing on lithographs, etchings, and linocuts from the 1920s to the 1980s, the Garcia-Correa Collection of Mexican Prints highlights the importance of the graphic arts in Mexico.
At the outset of the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), artists and activists alike turned to printmaking as a specifically Mexican way to address social and political issues such as agrarian and land reform. This mid-century collection of prints thematically focuses on labor, gender, and domesticity, all key aspects of campesino culture and its farming community that have informed the lives of the collectors.
On view are a selection of thirty-one prints that represent a preview of a larger, more comprehensive presentation planned in the years ahead. As an unprecedented addition to the Museum's permanent collection, the Garcia-Correa Collection of Mexican Prints features works by artists who have been foundational to the Mexican printmaking movement through collectives such as the Taller de Gráfica Popular [People’s Graphic Workshop]—one of the longest running artist collectives and most influential groups in the history of twentieth-century printmaking.
Mexican Prints is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions, with support from Curatorial Assistants Claudia Grego March and Kaitlin Zarembinski. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of Gil Garcia and Marti Correa de Garcia, the AD&A Museum Council, and the UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts.
Artists in the Exhibition
Ignacio Aguirre (b. Mexico, 1900–1990)
Emilio Amero (b. Mexico, 1901–1976)
Raúl Anguiano (b. Mexico, 1915–2006)
Alberto Beltrán (b. Mexico, 1923–2002)
Angel Bracho (b. Mexico, 1911–2005)
Jean Charlot (b. France 1898–1979)
Jose Chávez Morado (b. Mexico, 1909–2002)
Miguel Covarrubias (b. Mexico 1904–1957)
Marion Greenwood (b. United States, 1909-1970)
Sarah Jiménez (b. Mexico, 1927–2017)
Leopoldo Méndez (b. Mexico, 1902–1969)
Isidoro Ocampo (b. Mexico, 1920–1983)
Pablo O’Higgins (b. United States, 1904–1983)
José Clemente Orozco (b. Mexico, 1883–1949)
Fanny Rabel (b. Poland, 1922–2008)
David Alfaro Siqueiros (b.Mexico, 1896–1974)
Rufino Tamayo (b. Mexico, 1899–1991)
Alfredo Zalce (b. Mexico 1908–2003)
Francisco Zúñiga (b. Costa Rica, 1912–1998)
About the Collectors
Gil Garcia is the president of Garcia Architects Inc. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, he served on the Santa Barbara City Council for a tenure of ten years. Both Gil and Marti Correa de Garcia have served on the board of numerous non-profit organizations, including the Santa Barbara/Puerta Vallarta Sister City Committee and the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara North. Gil and Marti are the recipients of many community awards, including the 1997 Santa Barbara Lifetime Achievement Award.
