Saturday, July 5, 2025

Revving Up for STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Printing

We are preparing to make a BIG STEAMROLLER print at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025 of large EXQUISISTE TESSELLATION Linocuts -- on Sunday, October 12, 2025, in Silver City, New Mexico:

The LIGHTBURN file for laser cutting four big "hat" linocuts,
from a linoleum 35x 35 inches square--
20_inch_hats.LBRN2 (18.22 KB)

We plan to piece together four large "hat" linocuts to make a larger print on 40 x 40 inch paper.  We might also carve the 6 drops, and piece them together to make full square steamroller print. These puzzle pieces can be put together to print several variations.

Southwest Print Fiesta 2022 --
steamroller print of Manuel Guerra's big linocut

Steamroller Printing -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2022
Manuel Guerra Steamroller Print -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2022

EXQUISITE STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Print

June 3, 2025
The large "hat" linocuts
are the mirrored image of the small linocuts
we have been printing previously

JOE MARSHALL was the first to carve and print
his big "hat" linocut for the Steamroller Press


We probably need to tape all the big linocuts down with Woodworkers Double Sided Tape before running the steamroller over them:

EXQUISITE STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Print
Woodworkers Double Sided Tape



ARTISTS

We have given out 11 big TESSELLATION linocuts to carve, to 9 artists in the Southwest -- reminiscent of the theme of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta:

ALBUQUERQUE

HENRY MORALES, ELLIE WEADOCK, VIRGIL VELASCO -- we gave out three big tessellation linocuts in Albuquerque to each of the BIG INK team:  

(l to r) HENRY MORALES, ELLIE WEADOCK, VIRGIL VELASCO
in Albuquerque

HOLLAND HARDIE will carve the big linocut we gave to Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque:

EXQUISITE STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Prints
Jessica Krichels accepts a big linocut
for Remarque Print Workshop

ADAM BERMAN of the Printmaking Department of the University of New Mexico in  Albuquerque accepted a big tessellation tile:

EXQUISITE STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Prints
ADAM BERMAN at the UNM Printmaking Department
accepts a big linocut

EL PASO

MANUEL GUERRA of HORNED TOAD PRINTS of El Paso accepted two big "hat" tessellation tiles:

Juarez
MANUEL GUERRA of El Paso
accepted two big "hat" linocuts

LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO

JULIE SOLA of FAT CROW PRESS in Las Vegas, New Mexico, accepted a big "hat" tessellation tile:

SUMMARY -- PRINTERS PLANET TAOS 2025
JULIE SOLA of Las Vegas, New Mexico
accepts a big "hat" tessellation tile to carve

Julie Sola started on her
big steamroller tessellation linocut


TAOS, NEW MEXICO

SARAH HART of Taos, New Mexico accepted a big "hat" tessellation tile to carve:

SUMMARY -- PRINTERS PLANET TAOS 2025
SARAH HART of Taos, New Mexico
accepts a big "hat" tessellation tile to carve

TUCSON

JOE MARSHALL of Tucson accepted two big "hat" linocuts, and had already carved one by the end of June:

TUCSON visits ALBUQUERQUE
Joe Marshall of Tucson
printing with a Tortilla Press in Albuquerque


The big linocut and the print
that JOE MARSHALL made for the Steamroller Press



LASER CUTTING

We bought three big sheets of 36x36 inch linoleum from Dick Blick:

Three big sheets of 36x36 inch linoleum
 from Dick Blick


Ethan then laser cut the linoleum on April 16, 2025 -- into large "hat" shapes, 20 inches across at the widest:

20 INCHES at the Widest


EXQUISITE STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Prints
12 large "hat" linoleum shapes
and the drops

The LIGHTBURN file for laser cutting four large 20" hat shapes from a 35x35 inch piece of linoleum:

I cut off a half inch to make 35.5x36 inch sheets of linoleum
so that they would fit in Ethan's laser cutter




Morn Laser


70% power, 15 mm/sec speed



We laser cut each 35x36 inch piece of linoleum
into four "hat" shapes
in about ten minutes

Video of the laser cutting


Four 20 inch wide "hats"
out of a 35x35 inch square of linoleum








Thank you Ethan!!!!


And a big Thank You to Brian too, for designing the tessellation pattern than we used to laser cut.

the tessellation pattern



STEAMROLLER PRINTING
2024

Last year they also printed a second day with the Steamroller -- Sunday, October 13, 2024 -- at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2024

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Steamroller Printing


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Coming to Juarez

We are going to exhibit the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints in Mexico at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez -- in the gallery of CENTRO CULTURAL DE LAS FRONTERAS -- as part of the Túnel Gráfico exhibition, from August 22nd to October 18, 2025:


Open call for the 
Túnel Gráfico exhibition in Juarez

We plan on exhibiting EXQUISISTE TESSELLATION collections from:

Centro Cultural de las Fronteras
in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico


Inside the
Centro Cultural de las Fronteras



UACJ Print Professors Eduardo Reyes and Luis Roacho
show the gallery to Karl Whitaker on May 10th, 2025


The gallery is huge

The CENTRO CULTURAL DE LAS FRONTERAS is located in the ZONA PRONAF, not too far from the MEXICO/US border -- Anillo Envolvente Jose Reyes Estrada, 445, Zona Pronaf, 32315 Juárez, Chih., Mexico:

MUSEO DE ARTE DE CIUDAD JUAREZ


CIUDAD JUAREZ

Crossing the Santa Fe bridge into Mexico, we see this mural on the Juarez side of the Rio Grande, by artist and printmaker Jorge "Yorch" Perez:

Juarez


This mural is based on a print that Yorch had made previously about the bridge (see below). Note the female factory worker on the right -- Yorch says that most of the workers in the maquiladoras are women:

Postre Prints Opening -- El Paso
The Rio Grande mural is based on Yorch's print of the US/MEXICO bridge --
Javi Nopales bought this print in 2017


Crossing into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
on the Santa Fe bridge on May 10th, 2025

HEROES of JUAREZ


TIN TAN was a Mexican movie star:

Tin Tan Museum


JUAN GABRIEL was a Mexican pop star:



PLAZA CERVANTINA

YORCH and the printmakers are reviving Plaza Cervantina in Ciudad Juarez:

YORCH in PLAZA CERVANTINA


PLAZA CERVANTINA 
in Juarez


Mural by Alegria del Prado


In front of Yorch's new printmaking shop in Plaza Cervantina -- LOS ENTIN-TAN -- I met the UACJ printmaking professors that are putting on the exhibition:

LOS ENTIN-TAN printmaking shop in Plaza Cervantina --
UACJ printmaking professors :
Luis Roacho -- Artes Visuales
Eduardo Reyes -- Diseno/Filosofia
Candido Valdez -- Printmaking

Unfortunately we did not get to see Yorch on this visit:

Professor Candido Valdez
and Jorge "Yorch" Perez


PRINTS by the UACJ PROFESSORS

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION print by
Professor Candido Valdez


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints by
Professor Candido Valdez


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints by
Professor Candido Valdez


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints by
Professor Candido Valdez


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION print
by Luis Roacho


Print by Professor Luis Roacho


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION print by
Jorge "Yorch" Perez


Meanwhile El Paso is also gearing up for
the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition


INSIDE the STUDIO

Inside the Juarez printmaking taller -- LOS ENTIN-TAN:







Print-in-process by Yorch


Outside they were carving linoleum as well


Using a razor blade folded over,
to carve linoleum

YORCH had a BUCKET EXHIBITIONS show at previous panaderia location in 2022, on the street "16 de Septiembre":



I used to buy Papel Amate at MONARCA PADI in Juarez, which apparently has moved. We like printing on this paper:

Monarca Padi


RETURNING to the USA

This statue greets people
on the way back to the USA


Mexican and USA flags
on the bridge over the Rio Grande




View of El Paso from the Santa Fe Bridge


2016

We have exhibited in Juarez previously in 2016 -- with the "El Pueblo vs El Chuco" Print Exchanges exhibition in the Juarez Contemporary Gallery:

Juarez Contemporary Gallery
We exhibited in Juarez previously in 2016,
with the "El Pueblo vs El Chuco" Print Exchanges


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Revving Up for STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Printing

We are preparing to make a BIG STEAMROLLER print at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025 of large EXQUISISTE TESSELLATION Linocuts -- on Sunday...