Richard Rodriguez
woodcut
24 x 22.5 inches
5 colors
hand printed
on washi

Richard Rodriguez portrait by printmaker Dirk Hagner
This woodblock print of Richard Rodriguez shows some of the many aspects of his being. Being a devoted Catholic and openly homosexual of North American Indian and Hispanic heritage makes for a complexity which produces commentaries necessarily quite insightful. He authored many books such as Brown.
Printmaking, because of its reduction, does allow for one of the boldest ways of artistic expression.