BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: OAXACA INGOBERNABLE -- print show at UNM

A Oaxaca print show opened at the University of New Mexico in the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology -- OAXACA INGOBERNABLE: Aesthetics, Politics, and Art from Below:

The print wheat-paste exhibition at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

on the campus of the University of New Mexico

This exhibition runs from September 3, 2024 - March 14, 2025. It features the prints from LOS SUBTERRANEOS of Oaxaca and PAVEL ACEVEDO:

OAXACA INGOBERNABLE

Many of the wheat-pasted prints in the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology are by PAVEL ACEVEDO, who is originally from Oaxaca, but lives and prints in Riverside/Los Angeles, California:

PAVEL ACEVEDO

is featured in the wheat-paste exhibition at the Maxwell Museum

PRINTS by PAVEL ACEVEDO

HIBBEN CENTER

The other half of the Oaxaca print exhibition is at the HIBBEN CENTER, across the walkway from the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology:

The sign in front of the HIBBEN CENTER

advertising the Oaxaca prints inside

The prints at the HIBBEN CENTER are done entirely by LOS SUBTERRANEOS:

A photo of COLLECTIVO SUBTERRENEOS

in their studio in the city of Oaxaca --

Mario Guzman sitting in the center of the photo

The label describing

COLECTIVO SUBTERRANEOS

The reception for the Oaxaca printmaking exhibitions was in the HIBBEN CENTER on September 7, 2024:

The reception was on September 7, 2024

"Los Nadies"

prints on fabric

"Los Nadies"

On September 11th,

Manuel Guerra took a photo of "Los Nadies"

The Dance of the Devils from Oaxaca

probably came from the enslaved Africans

Prints on fabric

of the Oaxacan Devils

There were also prints on fabric of black Oaxacans, who originally came over as slaves from Africa:

Prints of black Oaxacans

Daniela del Mar was giving live letterpress demonstrations during the reception:

Daniela del Mar in the mask

making fresh letterpress prints during the reception

The fresh letterpress prints

The reception was on September 7, 2024

There was a full house when the presentation started at 3 PM:

Carla Sinopoli, the director of the Maxwell Museum,

opens the presentation

with the two co-curators Gustavo Garcia and Natalie M Toscano

Highlighting Pavel Acevedo, who was part of the exhibition --

Pavel is originally from Oaxaca, and lives in California now

Darinka Moher spoke to us, in Spanish, from the Los Subterraneos studio in Oaxaca, from Zoom projected on the big screen in the auditorium:

Darinka Moher

her Zoom discussion was projected on the big screen

PHOTOS from OAXACA

These photos were hung on the wall with the labeling, as part of the exhibition:

Collective carving

The studio

Note the big woodblocks in the bottom right

of the studio

Wheat-pasted prints in the streets of Oaxaca

The curators: Natalie M Toscano and Gustavo Garcia

The current printmaking explosion in Oaxaca started during the Teacher's Strike of 2006 -- however note that Francisco Toledo had been pushing printmaking in Oaxaca way before then, founding the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca in 1988: