Frankie Gutierrez is an illustrator and printmaker working within Southern California’s print, zine, and book arts communities. In 2024, they founded the IE Print & Zine Fest and have since served as the event’s main organizer, establishing more opportunities for printmakers and zinesters in the area. In addition to lecturing and teaching Beginning Illustration at California State University, San Bernardino, and Riso 101 at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, they operate Bluebasket Press, a small garage riso studio, printing local artists' works and works for the thriving art communities of San Bernardino and Riverside.
Their work can be found in the University of California, Riverside, Scripps College, Pitzer College, and Los Angeles Public Library zine and special collections, as well as in ZINE COOP Hong Kong, Direct Angle Press, Riso Studio Arts, Hyperallergic, and Lavender Menace, Scotland.
www.frankiegutierrez.com
In the Fall of 2025 the Madigan Gallery at CSUB will inaugurate 99 EDITIONS + PRESS with a series of workshops, lectures and open houses focusing on artists and publishing houses who use the Risograph machine in their production: Jun Ha and David Bow from Riso Studio Arts; artist Frankie Gutierrez and publishing house Special Effects. The program will introduce this low cost, analogue system that has become the center of a large and growing movement in small press and independent artistic production.
Artists will be invited for periods of 3-4 weeks to work with students, focusing on a specific aspect of RISO printing; analogue experimentation; working with digital images; posters, illustrations and artist books. Throughout the semester the gallery will be a combination studio, library of publishers works and exhibition space for works produced during the workshops. At the conclusion of each artist residency the Madigan Gallery/ 99 will host an open house for the public.
99 EDITIONS + PRESS open houses September 18, October 16, November 20