Monday, June 27, 2022

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




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







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

Poster made by Hecho Gallery


recommends the PRINTED MATTER festival


For the weekend of July 8-10, 2022



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






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












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



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.


Friday, June 24, 2022

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:




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




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
















Preparation



Creating the wall for the exhibition


Manuel Guerra sent these framed 8x8 inch prints
across the border


The prints, left to right:

Other prints:



Monday, June 6, 2022

8x8 Pop-up Exhibition -- EL PASO

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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








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

Manuel Guerra (second from left)
and Horned Toad Prints --



Raul Monarrez was pulling free prints during the opening





THE Local PRINTMAKERS


(Ciudad Juarez)




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


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










Federico Villalba








in his studio at Casa Ortiz


(Las Cruces)
One of Southwest Contemporary Magazine's












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











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


in the Horned Toad Print studio
adjacent to the gallery


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





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!




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