Uptown Charlotte has a colorful new reason to plan a museum day. At the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, on South Tryon Street in the Levine Center for the Arts, Making an Impression: Pioneering Latin American Printmakers is now on view through February 1, 2027, turning the museum’s fourth-floor gallery into a celebration of printmaking that leaps right off the page.
The exhibition brings together four artists from four countries and four generations: Rufino Tamayo of Mexico, Jesús Rafael Soto of Venezuela, Regina Silveira of Brazil and Analia Saban of Argentina. Together, they show how a print can be far more than ink on paper. Tamayo’s groundbreaking Mixografías add sculptural relief you can almost feel with your eyes, Soto’s graphic works vibrate with optical energy, Silveira stretches illusion into the architecture itself, and Saban reinvents the printed image with inventive materials and technology.
It is the kind of show that rewards a slow stroll. Stand close and the lines, textures and bold blocks of color play tricks on your eyes; step back and whole new patterns appear. With 45 of Tamayo’s Mixografías anchoring the presentation — one of the largest showings of that body of work in the United States — art lovers get a rare, close-up encounter with a medium at its most playful and inventive.
Make it a full Uptown outing: the Bechtler sits steps from theaters, cafés and Tryon Street’s public art, so a morning with Latin American masters can easily flow into lunch and an afternoon exploring downtown Charlotte.
Photo: Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
