Marina Ancona

born 1971 New York, New York; lives Brooklyn, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico

BiographyMarina Ancona has built a creative approach to printmaking that fosters relationships with many women artists, explores the possibilities of diverse printmaking techniques including monotypes, and seeks to build community with other printers. She was influenced by growing up in an artistic family. Raised in New York, she moved to New Mexico as a teenager and has spent time in both places throughout her life. Her father, who was Mexican-American and also a printmaker and photographer, exposed Ancona to Mexican artists like Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo. While studying to be a painter, Ancona attended a class with Ken Noland in Santa Fe, who took the class to visit Ron Pokrasso’s shop. Seeing the collaborative community space led Ancona to pursue printmaking. She spent years working in different print shops, including Hand Graphics in Santa Fe as well as shops in New York and Paris. Ancona started 10 Grand Press in 1999 in Brooklyn and expanded to add a second shop in Santa Fe in 2005. Her interest in printmaking is also rooted in the medium’s accessibility; artists can make an edition of works with relatively few resources. Ancona has worked with artists such as Nicola Lopez, Harmony Hammond, Nicole Eisenman, among many more. [Printer's Proof]

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