Saturday, December 31, 2022

SUMMARY 2022


The power of showing small prints
2022


We had a great year showing BUCKET PRINTS  (including prints from URUAPAN, Michoacán) of framed 8x8 inch prints in Albuquerque, El Paso, Ciudad Juarez, Santa Fe and Silver City.


One of the major highlights was exhibiting Mexican and Southwest printmakers during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2022 in Silver City, New Mexico:



The BASIC CONCEPT is to carry a bucket of small prints and have both spontaneous and long term exhibitions in smaller venues.

As the 8x8 inch prints (paper size) travel nicely in an envelope across the border, we were also able to solicit and exhibited works from Mexican printmakers -- from Ciudad Juarez, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Uruapan and Oaxaca -- alongside work from Southwest printmakers.  8x8 inches is the perfect paper size for exhibiting internationally (as we did with the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange).



BUCKET EXHIBITIONS
2022



December 16, 2021


January 10th, 2022


March 17, 2022


May/June, 2022



May 28/29/30, 2022


June 17, 2022


July 2022


July 10, 2022


August 16 - September 30, 2022


October 7 - 10, 2022


November 29, 2022


December 2, 2022 - January 30, 2023




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QUICK and CASUAL

Sometimes we dropped in to studios, life drawing sessions, or other intimate spaces to have a quick showing of the framed 8x8 inch prints: 


Showing in Julianna Kirwin's studio in Albuquerque --
Julianna (left), Shelly Shucker (right)


Showing off prints in Tucson
Michael and Neda Contreras (left), Tanya Rich (right)


Stu admires the framed prints
during the Phoenix drawing session


Framed 8x8 inch prints
on the shelf at the Edith Bunker studio in Albuquerque --


Flexing at VM Coffee in Albuquerque


Manuel Guerra of El Paso (right)
studying prints with Henry Morales (left)
at Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque




The Act of Print Creation

Link to a LONG BLOG POST about creating 8x8 prints throughout 2022, mostly in Albuquerque.


Friday, December 2, 2022

BUCKET EXHIBITIONS at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

We showed 26 BUCKET PRINTS and had a great opening at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque on Friday, December 2, 2022, from 5- 8 PM.  Our framed 8x8 inch collection piggybacked on their main show -- the 10th Annual International Juried Printmaking Exhibition:

A toast of good mezcal
to start the opening
(Phoebe, Holland and Jessica K -- left to right)


The theme was MEXICAN (top row) and REMARQUE (Albuquerque artists -- bottom row) prints:

The TOP row was all Mexican prints --
the BOTTOM row was prints from Remarque artists,
fleshed out with a few more Albuquerque artists,
plus one from Eli Levin and another by DALL-E 2


The main feature at Remarque was the 10th Annual International Juried Printmaking Exhibition, which runs from December 2nd, 2022 through January 28th, 2023.  We are more than honored to exhibit with such great company!  Our 26 BUCKET PRINTS will also be up during those same two months:

Flyer for the 
10th Annual International Juries Printmaking Exhibition


"Bucket Exhibitions"
is mentioned on the flyer


studies our Bucket Prints in the background


Carol Lynn Moder 
as seen from the back here


View of the opening
on the other side of the studio


sold her print to a young art lover from Australia


Holland Hardie and her print


Jessica Krichels and her print


Jessica Weybright next to her print


Henry Morales pointing at his print


Virgil Velasco pointing at his print


Julianna Kirwin cutting down her print
in her studio in Albuquerque --
however she made her print in Oaxaca



The main course at Remarque was their 10th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition in the two main galleries up front:  





I posted pictures of some, but not all, of the prints AT THIS LINK (and I missed a lot of great prints):

Brewster Fitz of Santa Fe
stands by his print in the


 *****

The PRINTS

It took an hour to hang the show
on November 30, 2022


We hung two buckets of prints


MEXICAN PRINTS
(Top Row)


 1)  Adrian Aguirre  (Zaachila, Oaxaca)
 2)  Beatriz Rivas  (Zaachila, Oaxaca)
 3)  Arturo Franco  (Zaachila, Oaxaca)
 4)  Sam Gardner  (Oaxaca, Oaxaca)

 

 5)  Adrian Bastarrachea  (Zaachila, Oaxaca)
 6)  Igor Galvez Buenfil  (Monterrey, Mexico)
 7)  Jose Luis Carrera Garza   (Monterrey, Mexico)
 8)  Ulises Vargas Moreno  (Monterrey, Mexico)



 9)  David Meat Bravo Bravo  (Juarez, Mexico)
10)  Jorge "Yorch" Perez  (Juarez, Mexico)
11)  Xavier Moreno  (Guadalajara, Mexico)
12)  Alejandra Mares  (Guadalajara, Mexico)
13)  Ulises Vargas Moreno  (Monterrey, Mexico)


REMARQUE PRINTS
(Albuquerque artists -- Bottom Row)





19)  Eli Levin  (Dixon, New Mexico)



24)  Aaron Bass
26)  DALL-E 2  (Artificial Intelligence -- generated by Holly Grimm, Santa Fe)

NOTE:  The last print was fake, generated by DALL-E 2, an online text-to-image AI (artificial intelligence) program.  Holly Grimm had early access and generated a black-and-white image of a printmaker.  Karl engraved it into linoleum using the laser cutter at Quelab, and printed it out on his Tortilla Press.




It's always nice to see good prints hanging at Remarque.  Andrew Polk used to teach printmaking the University of Arizona, where we met him many years back:

still hangs at Remarque


Susan Dubois


We like to follow the Oaxaca tradition
and offer a sip of good mezcal
at our print openings (imported by Juanitos)


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Our Previous Remarque-able Experiences

We have previously shown prints at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque:

2017 July -- FROM BEHIND THE WALL: Prints from Contemporary Mexican Maestros :

This exhibition traveled to the El Paso Museum of Art as a pop-up in October 6-8, 2017:



By Angel Velasco --
See all the Mexican prints 


Showing prints from the Oaxaca Carpeta
at the opening


2019 Feburary -- NEW MEXICO: LIVING RELIEF:

The gallery and prints
of the Living Relief exhibition --




 Workshop

Plus we brought in Pavel Acevedo to give a relief printmaking workshop at Remarque in April 2017, in conjunction with the PRINTS by SOUTHWEST exhibition at the South Broadway Cultural Center.  Pavel is originally from Oaxaca, but lives in Riverside, California now:

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