Meet artist Horacio Devoto. Horacio has been a Highpoint co-op member for about two years and, along with Laura Youngbird, was recently awarded the 2024-25 Full Color Print Fellowship. They will spend the next year working with a mentor and creating in the cooperative printshop.
We recently asked Horacio about his experiences at Highpoint and what it has meant for his creative practice.
My earliest experience with Highpoint was attending Free Ink Days in 2011 with my son. I have such fond memories of those days, seeing my son’s eyes opened to the possibilities of printmaking. I think Highpoint’s public access programs like Free Ink Days are a wonderful gift to the community.
For someone like me, without formal training as an artist, Highpoint has offered so many opportunities. I started by taking classes and was amazed by what one can do in printmaking. For years, I worked in large-format photography, but, with printmaking’s greater authority, one can manipulate the subject matter and control the hues, textures, and layers.
When the opportunity to become a Highpoint member arose, I jumped at it. I continued taking classes, but as a member, I had access to incredible equipment and became part of a community of artists committed to the painstaking process of printmaking. This community is creative and kind–there is always someone to turn to when I can’t quite get the picture in my mind to translate to ink and paper. I take inspiration from my fellow Highpoint members, and the print studio produces some of the most beautiful prints I have ever seen.
My most recent work involves photographs and printmaking. I am interested in how humans act in the natural world. Some have described my recent work as apocalyptic, and, given the state of the climate, that seems right.
