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Mexican-born artist Gustavo Ramos Rivera is an artist well-known for his expressive use of color and playful, abstract compositions.  While his primary medium is painting on canvas, Rivera has worked extensively in the monotype medium.  Rivera's residencies at Aurobora Press have consistently yielded extraordinary results.  His use of collage and drypoint to create his unique compositions have lead the artist to create various size prints ranging from intimate to the monumental.  All of Rivera's monotypes are rich with nuance which comes from the intuitive hand of the artist --the delicate layering of chine colle elements, the simple overprinting of color in some areas, the knowing when to yield to a single pass of the press.