Preparing for Santa Fe in July

We are showing some of the 8x8 inch prints in July in Santa Fe, New Mexico -- in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van. 

The Axle Contemporary mobile art van

parked in the Santa Fe RailYard

during the HerStory exhibit

 earlier this year

We will be showing prints from July 10th -24th at the Axle Contemporary mobile art van, in various locations around Santa Fe:

We are listed in the "Upcoming Exhibitions" 

on the Axle Contemporary website

• Link to the first selection of 66 prints

The FIRST Show is on July 10th, 2022, during the big PRINTED MATTER festival at the Railyard, 10 AM - 5 PM.  Facebook Event.

Poster made by Hecho Gallery

Facebook Event

Southwest Contemporary magazine

recommends the PRINTED MATTER festival

For the weekend of July 8-10, 2022

Online PasaTiempo article about the PRINTED MATTER Festival,

featuring a print that we are showing in the Axle Contemporary van,

by Mario Alfonso Perez of El Paso

Text of the online PasaTiempo article about the PRINTED MATTER Festival

Article in the Santa Fe Reporter

We will be on the south end of the Santa Fe Railyards (where the big red star is on the map below), across the street from Site Santa Fe.

We will be showing prints and doing print demos

on the south side of the Santa Fe Railyards,

across from Site Santa Fe,

where the big red star is on the map above

PRINTED MATTER

print festival market

Santa Fe, July 10th, 2022

James Bourland of Bourland Letterpress made posters for the PRINTED MATTER event:

PRINTED MATTER announcement

of the print festival in Santa Fe, July 10th, 2022

DEMOS

During the PRINTED MATTER festival, and our first exhibition in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van, we will be doing print demonstrations using the TORTILLA PRESS and SKATEBOARD PRESS:

DEMOS SCHEDULE

• KRRRL/ LINOCUT PRINTING / ALL DAY
• HER STORY PRINTING / FOAM BLOCK PRINTING / ALL DAY
• MATT SURHE / CYANOTYPE PRINTING / 1PM TO 2PMISH
• GLOBAL COMMONS COLLECTIVE / SCREEN PRINTING / ALL DAY
• KARLA MILOSOVITCH / ANN JAG / POTATOE PRINTS / ALL DAY
• JON REVETT ARTS / SPECIAL INSTALLATION / ALL DAY

We got the TORTILLA PRESS idea

from Tres Gatos Press in Guadalajara

First Skateboard Press demo

at the Albuquerque Rail Yard market

We hired Joseph Velasquez to make prints on the Skateboard Press in 2018 for the opening of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta in Florida:

Making prints with the Skateboard Press

in 2018

Matthew and Jerry of Axle Contemporary will be making live Tortilla Prints on actual tortillas, and handing them out to the public:

Prints on actual Tortillas

Also note that Sunday, July 10th, is the last day of the Santa Fe International Folk Market on Museum Hill.

MAIN POST:  Santa Fe 2022 -- SUMMARY

Ciudad Juarez -- 8x8 -- Prints y Pan

The Panaderia Rezizte showed 8x8 inch prints in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico -- PRINTS y PAN -- on Friday, June 17th, 2022.  The venue is actually walking distance from El Paso, Texas:

"PRINTS y PAN"

8x8 Exposicion de Grabado

in downtown Ciudad Juarez on Friday, June 17th, 2022

at Rezizte Panaderia

Jorge "Yorch" Perez

put on the 8x8 print show

in his panaderia in downtown Ciudad Juarez

Framed 8x8 inch prints

showing in Panaderia Rezizte (bakery)

in downtown Ciudad Juarez

Panaderia Rezizte

in downtown Juarez

Announcement on Instagram

of the upcoming exhibition in Juarez

Jorge "Yorch" Perez is the printmaker who put on the exhibition at the Rezizte Panaderia, which he owns.  He is pictured below with Kerry Doyle, the Director of the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts on the UTEP campus:

Jorge "Yorch" Perez

with Kerry Doyle

Panaderia Rezizte inside

view from a different angle

• Thanks to Federico Villalba for the higher resolution pictures above

Preparation

Creating the wall for the exhibition

Manuel Guerra sent these framed 8x8 inch prints

across the border

The prints, left to right:

• Manuel Guerra (2)  (El Paso)
• Kalli Arte Collective  (Los Angeles)
• Brian Holt (1)  (El Paso)
• Susan Gonzalez (2) (El Paso)
• Pavel Acevedo (1)  (Riverside/LA, California)
• Raul Monarrez (2) (El Paso)
• Gummi Thordarson (1)  (El Paso)
• Marco Sanchez (2)  (El Paso)
• Joseph Grijalva  (El Paso)
• Igor Galvez Buenfil  (Monterrey, Mexico)
• Chris Bardey  (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
• Juan de Dios Mora  (San Antonio, Texas)
• Adrian Aguirre (Oaxaca)

Other prints:

• Jorge "Yorch" Perez (1)  (Juarez)
• Jorge "Yorch" Perez (2) (Juarez)
• David Meat Bravo Bravo (1)  (Juarez)
• David Meat Bravo Bravo (2)  (Juarez)
• Rogelio Rosiles  (Mexico City)
• Valentin Pineda  (Juarez)

8x8 Pop-up Exhibition -- EL PASO

tinyurl.com/8x8prints

The 8x8 SHOW at the Alameda Art and Salvage Gallery in El Paso was a great success over Memorial Day weekend 2022.  All the prints fit in 8x8 inch frames. The gallery was pretty full during the whole opening, 6 - 10 PM, on May 28th, 2022.

Well attended opening night in El Paso

Saturday, May 28th, 2022

"The 8 x 8 exhibition is about artists/printmakers supporting one another

so that the practice of print not only be sustained

but prosper wherever it may in the world"

Instagram announcement

Link to all the Bucket Prints

The Alameda Art and Salvage Gallery

LINK

to a list of all the printmakers

and close up gallery photos

This print pop-up exhibition was put on by Manuel Guerra and Horned Toad Prints:

Manuel Guerra (second from left)

and Horned Toad Prints --

(left to right) Raul Monarrez, Francisco Delgado, Adriana Zavala,

Manuel Guerra and Gummi Thordarson

Raul Monarrez was pulling free prints during the opening

El Paso Rocks!

THE Local PRINTMAKERS

David Meat Bravo Bravo

(Ciudad Juarez)

Adriana Zavala

Javi Napoles followed a 3Gatos Press Instagram session from Guadalajara to make his own tools and create a print:

Javi Napoles

Javi Napoles made his linoleum cutting knives from old umbrellas, following the DIY tutorial from Tres Gatos Press in Guadalajara:

Making linoleum cutting knives

from old umbrellas --

thanks to Tres Gatos Press in Guadalajara

Victor Casas

Derek Caufield

Federico Villalba

(photography)

Aaron Eskridge

Gabriel Marquez

John Ibarra

Mario Alonso Perez

in his studio at Casa Ortiz

Adrian Aguirre 

(Las Cruces)

One of Southwest Contemporary Magazine's

12 New Mexico Artists you need to Know Now (2022)

Susan Gonzalez

Marco Sanchez

Francisco Delgado

Sam Garcia

Kaelyn Monarrez

Vannessa Zavala Clark used an interesting technique by printing in part with wet clay:

Vannessa Zavala Clark

Brian Holt

Louie Salazar

Gummi Thordarson

Crystal Rodriguez

Also note the New Mexico printmakers who contributed a print to the exhibition.  The print show also included works by printmakers from Mexico, Arizona, California, San Antonio and one from Australia!

UTEP professor Kim Bauer and Raul Monarrez,

with a big smile from Kaelyn Monarrez

In front of the Alameda Art and Salvage Gallery

on Alameda Street in El Paso during the opening,

literally a short walk to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Manuel Guerra and Raul Monarrez

in the Horned Toad Print studio

adjacent to the gallery

Before the opening there was an Instagram live stream session with Akuainks:

An hour live stream before the opening

on Akuainks Instagram

Meanwhile, back in Albuquerque, Carlos Hernandez and Bill Fick visted Takach Press and posted it on the Speedball_art Instagram:

Speedball_art 

visit to Takach Press in Albuquerque

while we were showing in El Paso

From the outside

looking inside

Thanks again to Manuel Guerra, UTEP print professor and head of Horned Toad Prints, for all the hard work he did to make this 8x8 Show happen!

Manuel Guerra in a happy moment

in Oaxaca 2018