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