Ricardo Mazal/Gary Mankus Untitled Diptych, 1994 Charcoal and lead powder on paper / Silver print 30" x 40"
RICARDO MAZAL Born in Mexico City, Mazal moved to Barcelona Spain in 1986, and since 1990 has lived and worked in New York City, as well as Santa Fe New Mexico. Mazal’s work explores the process of visual perception as it takes form in the human consciousness. His paintings depict the passage of time, not by illustrating events but by leaving their residue to dissipate in space like a still photograph of a speeding object blurred to abstraction.
Ricardo is the recipient of many awards including a Jackson Pollack Foundation grant. A major retrospective of his paintings was held at the MARCO Museum, Monterrey Mexico, 2000. An additional major retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, 2006. His series 'Palenque- The Red Queen' was exhibited at the Scottsdale Museum, 2006.
GARY MANKUS was born in Chicago, and is a graduate of the Institute of Design at IIT. This broad Bauhaus education has resulted in his exploration of several careers including photography, design, fine art and printmaking. He is known for his photography of the Midwest including “Airshow” (Solo exhibition Chicago Cultural Center 1993) and for his digital collage imagery produced for major corporations.
Since 1990 Gary has been collaborating with artist Ricardo Mazal on several experimental photographic projects . The results of these collaborations have been exhibited at Galeria Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Galeria Maeght, Barcelona, Bentley Gallery Scottsdale, Megan Fox Gallery, SantaFe, MARCO Museum, Monterey, Mexico, Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, Chiaroscuro, Santa Fe, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, and Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho. Since moving to Santa Fe in 2001, Gary has founded Santa Fe Editions, for the exploration of new mediums. Gary's latest work is featured in Photography: New Mexico, published by Fresco LLC, www.frescobooks.com 2008.