Tobey C. Moss art gallery’s latest exhibit, LATIN FLAVORS 2015, spans a century of art that includes work by artists Francisco Zuniga, Frank Romero, and Elizabeth Catlett. The exhibition, on view from July 14 to September 4, seeks to convey the flow of storytelling, folklore, and music that pours out from the passions of the artists.  While dramatic black and white works add to the intensity of the exhibition, the colorful pieces reveal the moods, the visions and the heat that is a part of creativity. LATIN FLAVORS 2015 brims with imagination, honesty, humor, social commentary, heartfelt sadness and life.  Techniques include lithography, etching, screen-printing, photography, drawing, woodcut, typography and sculpting.

JEAN CHARLOT (1898-1979) Coiffure. Color lithograph 1933 Ed:500 Morse 124. 8 x 6 inches (20.3 x 15.3cm)

About the artist: Jean Charlot studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before serving in the French Army during World War I. His mother, with her French, Mexican and Jewish lineage, introduced him to Mexico in 1920, where he sketched for archeologists excavating Mayan ruins. He became enthused with his Mexican heritage, as evident in a series of mural paintings in Mexico City assisting Diego Rivera and other members of the Syndicate of Painters and Sculptors. Charlot is credited by Rivera for reviving and refining the fresco technique that he used. After working from 1929 with lithography printer George Miller in New York, Charlot began a lifetime collaboration in 1933 with Lynton R. Kistler, master lithography printer in Los Angeles, reputedly making the first stone-drawn color lithographs in the United States.