JY4TES - Fakin Bacon

On the final stretch to finishing work for a show at Stanislaus State with Juan. Carlos Quintana and Carlo Ricafort. Our collaborative group is called Tropeycalia Club and install begins 3/16. I'm still printing monotypes, working on a large diptych and finishing a video for an installation.

During the weekend Juan Carlos Quintana and Carlo Ricafort came work on a collab painting. We're finalizing work for our show at Stanislaus State University in March. More to come....
#juancarlosquintana #carloricafort #johnyoyogifortes #tropeycaliaclub

Will for sure

Got to catch Ruth Asawa's retrospective at SFMOMA this week before it closed. Here are a few pics, but they also showed her litho prints, drawings and sculptures.

I finally got my studio cleaned up and had a nice studio visit for a possible show down the road. More to come.

Ha ha! Thanks Manuel! Still a big mess in here, but feels somewhat foreign and good.

Getting my feet wet after a long studio absence. Gotta play!
Acrylic on canvas

Italy was a blast and It was great to see all the amazing art again. I was able to hang out at the Ufizzi Gallery while we were in Florence and made this short video playing of the name of the venue.

#uffizzigallery #italy #florence #firenze

youtu.be/8VJCMhZP0_Q

Went to Stanislaus State University yesterday to check out the gallery space. Tropeycalia Club - Juan Carlos Quintana, Carlo Ricafort and myself will be showing there in Mach 2026.
#tropeycaliaclub #juancarlosquintana #carloricafort #johnyoyogifortes

Testing out the vacuum table. Works great!

Finally bought the aluminum sheet to finish making the vacuum table for silkscreening. 525 holes drilled. What a pain!

Few photos from Printed Matters LA Art Book Fair with Arvin Flores from Artery Art Space in Manila. Fair was massive. Room after room of zines and handmade books. And there was another building with all the art books!
#printedmatterbookfairla #bookfair #zines #artbooks #johnyoyogifortes #filamartist

Four more days to finish my book with silkscreened images. This is the smaller zine I finished. Five sheets, two-sided.
#johnyoyogifortes #zine #printedmattersbookfairla #printedmatters #artbooks

Thursday I'm headed to LA with two good artists friends to deliver our zines and handmade books. We're participating in the Printed Matters Book Fair at the Art Center of Design, Pasadena through Artery Art Space in the Philippines.

#printedmattersbookfair #arteryartspace #zines #johnyoyogifortes

Love that museum!😍

www.artsactionfund.org/breaking-new...

#nationalendowmentforthwarts #nea #artgrants

Worth a watch Ted Talk.
The case for making art when the world is on fire. Amie McNee.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XZ9...

#creativityisresistance #artisresistance #makeart

Made this zine for next months Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. More coming!

#printedmatterslabookfair #zine #johnyoyogifortes #selfpublishing #diyzine

Couple closeups from the other day in Folsom.
@sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social #folsombernieaoctour #wethepeople

Aw, sorry you missed it. It was insane though with the amount of people that showed up and the long lines, and the waiting. Some never got in and watched from the road behind the fence!😢

Folsom showed up! 30K out of a population of 85K.💪🏽💥
Empowering evening with Bernie Sanders and AOC!
@sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social #folsomralley #united

Went to check out Summer Ventis' show at Axis Gallery then the Show at Verge. Beautiful work by Amy Elkins and Serena Cole
#amyelkinart #serenacoleart #vergecenterforthearts #artexhibitionsacramento

Did my artist talk yesterday at Sac State Art History Symposium. Theme was Asian and Latin diaspora. Was nice to meet Abby Chen, curator of the Asian Art Museum in SF and be on the same panel with her and SF artist, Summer Lee.
#sacramentostatearthistorysymposium #johnyoyogifortes

I'll be giving an artist talk at Stanislaus State University on May 2nd. Looking forward to chatting with their BFA students. Thanks @mirabelwigon.bsky.social

#arttalk #artisttalk #stanislausstateuniversityart #johnyoyogifortes #filamartist

I've been invited to give a talk along with two other speakers at the 21st Art History Symposium and Artist Talks Friday, April 11, 2025 1:30-4:30 at Sacramento State University.

#artisttalk #artsymposium #sacstatearthistorysymposium#johnyoyogifortes #filamartist

All done with IG!

Leaving IG and FB Algo BS Shithole on my B-day. A personal gift to myself. I hope that more artists migrate to BlueSky to build community.
#artists #fuckIG #fuckFB

Thanks to everyone, the instructors and students that came out for my informal rambling talk yesterday, ha! I hope I made sense of the work at the Ridley Gallery at Sierra College. Closes 3/13/2025.

#ridleygallery #sierracollegeartgallery #johnyoyogifortes #filamartist #sactoartist

RIDING the HYPHEN
Reception and informal talk today 2/19 from 4 to 6PM. Hope to see you there

Got my work installed at the Ridley Gallery at Sierra College. Opens Monday 2/10. More pics to come.

#ridleygallery #sierracollegeartgallery #filamartist #johnyoyogifortes #soloexhibition