LÍDIA MASLLORENS

Lithography, serigraphy and portraiture
September 26, 2025
LÍDIA MASLLORENS
 
Lidia Masslorens practice brings together the time-honored techniques of printmaking with a strikingly contemporary vision. Her art is the result of a process that is both rigorous and experimental, balancing technical mastery with a deep sensitivity to expression. Masslorens works across several disciplines, most notably lithography, silkscreen (serigraphy), and portraiture. Each discipline demands a different set of tools and approaches, and she moves between them with a rare fluency.
 
Lidia works at the intersection of printmaking and painting. She often begins with lithographic or printed bases, which she transforms through overpainting, erasing, and wash techniques. Her portraits are created using a distinctive subtractive process — removing paint with water and bleach rather than layering it — resulting in bold, expressive works that merge printmaking with mixed media.

 

Her silkscreens bring a very different energy. Here, she applies stencils or photo-emulsions to a fine mesh screen, pressing ink through the open areas onto paper or canvas. The result is bold, flat planes of color and strikingly crisp edges. By layering successive colors and carefully aligning them, Masslorens achieves compositions that feel vivid and immediate, yet balanced and refined. Portraiture runs as a constant thread through her practice. Whether realized as lithographs, silkscreens, or mixed-media drawings, her portraits capture more than appearances: they reflect individuality, presence, and the emotional weight of her sitters. They embody the tension between the reproducibility of print and the uniqueness of human character.
 
Understanding the distinctions between these approaches is essential to appreciating Masslorens’ artistry. Lithographs allow her to explore texture and tone, silkscreens emphasize boldness and graphic clarity, while portraits foreground the human connection at the heart of her vision. Together, they form a body of work that is as technically accomplished as it is emotionally engaging.
 
Through this combination of mediums, Lidia Masslorens demonstrates that printmaking is not merely a craft of reproduction but a living art form—capable of nuance, power, and intimacy. Her work reminds us that tradition and innovation can coexist beautifully, each amplifying the other.

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