DECK THE WALLS -- Exhibition at the North Fourth Art Center

We hung 88 prints in the last exhibition at the North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque.  They will be up until December 30th, 2023, when the art center closes permanently:

BUCKET PRINTS gets second billing

on the flyer for the "Deck the Walls" exhibition

88

 8x8 Prints

88 prints hanging at the 

North Fourth Art Center

ALBUQUERQUE

(those that come to the North Fourth drawing group)

ALBUQUERQUE

NEW MEXICO

(Santa Fe, Taos, Las Vegas, Las Cruces)

The missing prints

on the left side of this section

EL PASO, TUCSON and BEYOND

MEXICO

The Write-Up

BUCKET EXHIBITIONS is about showing art.

Ten small framed prints can be a good exhibition. They fit easily into a small Igloo cooler bucket with a

handle -- and thus can be carried up on the Rail Runner train to have pop-up print shows in Santa Fe...

or in Silver City or in Tucson. This concept unfolded from the inexpensive 8x8 inch frames from Walmart,

making it affordable for any artist to participate.

Likewise we carry our prints to Texas, to exhibit in the 8x8 SHOWs organized by Horned Toad Prints in El Paso. Moreover, as 8x8 inch prints fit nicely in the mail, we have received and shown small prints from all over Mexico. In particular we have been working closely with Tres Gatos Press, even showing prints with them in Guadlajara last July. While we do blog about all the shows, the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS concept is more of a loose collection of printmakers, rather than a centralized effort. We encourage everyone to get their own buckets, and show and pass around their prints.

However in order to show prints we have to make prints -- so we have been pressing linocuts during the

drawing sessions at North Fourth Art Center, on a Tortilla Press during model breaks. More importantly

we were allowed to exhibit those prints in the Art Center. Thus North Fourth Art Center has been the

nucleus of the Albuquerque BUCKET EXHIBITIONS efforts, and we are indebted to Tim Psomas,

Marjorie Neset and Susanna Kearney for encouraging us.

Showing small prints is way easier than exhibiting paintings and sculptures -- and thus a better way to

provoke an artistic dialog, both in subject matter and techniques, amongst ourselves as well as with the

rest of the Southwest and Mexico. While both the prints and exhibitions are small, they still can serve as

a basis and springboard for larger projects and exhibitions.

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