"Las Hermanas" - Ben Muñoz's New Publication at Flatbed

Las Hermanas
From left to right: Florence, Daphne, Jane. Chiaroscuro woodcuts, editions of 22. 2021.

Las Hermanas by Ben Muñoz

Ben Muñoz is an award-winning Texas-based artist. Muñoz's work is often reflective of his heritage, upbringing, and current surroundings. Muñoz has artwork in several private and public collections across the United States such as the Mexic-Arte Museum and the National Museum of Mexican Art. He is also heavily involved in the Texas art community, he is the co-founder and director of Familia Printshop, Dallas’s first and only community printshop. He also currently serves as board president of Print Austin, an annual month-long printmaking festival located in Austin, Texas. Muñoz has had work published by Flatbed and Coronado Print Studio. His work has been reviewed and discussed in multiple publications such as D Magazine, the Austin Chronicle, and the Sante Fe Mag.

Flatbed is excited to announce their newest publication of Muñoz’a newest suite of chiaroscuro woodcuts titled Las Hermanas. Muñoz carved three woodblocks in July of 2021 for the suite.  Each of the woodblocks refers to one of Muñoz’s three daughters and are titled with their names:  Florence,  Jane, and Daphne.  Muñoz is an artist who often weaves his life experiences into his work.  In the process, he creates a narrative around those experiences and guides our imagination with visual clues that seem to elicit our own story-telling.  He builds these visual clues into intricately designed structures made of images that relate to each other in complicated ways. It is natural that as a parent, Muñoz has been inspired by his young pre-school daughters whose emerging personalities are bursting with wonder.  This suite of prints has its origins in Muñoz’s parental observations.  It tells a deeper truth about a family with daughters, two who live, and one who does not.  We are faced with a fullness of life and contrasts of personalities in the two and the quiet stillness of one whose life will always be that of unborn possibilities. They will always be hermanas, sisters.  

The complete suite is available in a matched set or as individual prints. Link to our listing here: LAS HERMANAS
For individual prints link here: FLORENCE DAPHNE JANE