Tuesday, December 31, 2024

2024 SUMMARY

BUCKET EXHIBITIONS was very busy with COLLABORATIVE Print projects in 2024.  It started when BIG INK came to Albuquerque in April -- continued with the COLLABORATION of 5 print out of Henry Morales' studio -- and culminated in the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project since May:

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION
a collaborative print on Mexican Amate paper


REMARQUE EXHIBITION 2024 -- Labeling CREDITS
We exhibited the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints
in Albuquerque in December


Prints have to be SHOWN!

Exhibiting is the goal of BUCKET EXHIBITIONS, so our fundamental CONCEPT is to show SMALLER prints, because that is cheap and easy. However if the momentum builds enough to make and show BIGGER prints, that is even better.  And that is what happened in 2024.



BIGGER PRINTS

We made and exhibited larger prints in 2024:


The year started in Henry Morales' studio, by carving a collaborative woodcut for when BIG INK came to Albuquerque to print it in May: 

THE PRINTMAKERS -- BIG INK in Albuquerque
Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock and Virgil Velasco
collaborate to make a BIG INK print


COLALBORATION of 5

The BIG INK collaboration sparked the enthusiasm to collaborate on a print again in Henry Morales' studio, developing into the COLLABORATION of 5 print:

Collaboration of 5
Ellie Weadock, Casandra Encinias, Karl Whitaker,
Virgil Velasco and Henry Morales,
collaborated to make this figurative print


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION
 Print project

This enthusiasm for collaboration culminated in the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project, started in May, and blossomed into an exhibition in Albuquerque in December:

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints -- 2024 SUMMARY
EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints



LIVE PRINTMAKING

In order to show prints we have to make prints -- so we always do a little LIVE PRINTMAKING at openings and events to encourage that:

 BIG EVENTS

We PRINTED LIVE at a few big events -- specifically the PRINTERS PLANET, both in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA in Silver City, New Mexico:

We did LIVE PRINTMAKING at the PRINTERS PLANET in Albuquerque in May:

8x8 inch PRINTMAKING -- Demos
Printing at the PRINTERS PLANET
in ALBUQUERQUE in May


PRINTERS PLANET
SANTA FE

We did LIVE PRINTMAKING at the PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe in August:

Tessellation Prints -- PRINTERS PLANET 2024
Stewart and Ellie Weadock printing live
 at the PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe


SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA

We did LIVE PRINTMAKING during the after-party of the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA in Silver City, New Mexico in October:
 
Live Printmaking at the ABQ Rail Yards
We printed live in the Albuquerque Rail Yards
as part of the Quelab contingent


HUBBEL HOUSE

Henry Morales and Ellie Weadock did LIVE PRINTMAKING for Henry's relief workshop at the HUBBEL HOUSE in Albuquerque in September:

Henry Morales Workshop -- Hubbell House 2024
Live printmaking during Henry Morales' workshop
at the Hubble House in Albuquerque



PAVEL ACEVEDO

PAVEL ACEVEDO revved up the printmaking in New Mexico when he came to run a relief printmaking workshop at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in September/October.  He also returned to participate in the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City and do a silk screening demo at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque:
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EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints -- 2024 SUMMARY

tinyurl.com/TessPrints

This print project is based on a "HAT" shape -- an aperiodic monotile that tessellates infinitely without making a regular pattern.  It was discovered by DAVID SMITH in November of 2022, who even wrote back to us when we emailed him about our first EXQUISITE TESSELLATION exhibition: 


Juan Wijngaard carved this "HAT" shaped linocut


Our artistic aim was to devise a COLLABORATIVE PRINT project -- by creating bigger prints from the individual "hat" linocuts by several artists, in the spirit of the Surrealist EXQUISITE CORPSE collaborations:

ANIMATED SUMMARY
Succinct animated summary
of the collaborative tessellation process


Below is an animation of  EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints -- one from each of the 12 printmaking sessions in 2024:

12 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION PRINTS
CLICK THIS LINK
to see all 35 Tessellation Prints of 2024


It All Started in
HENRY MORALES' STUDIO

After the BIG INK project on April 13th, the team in Henry Morales' studio was keen on doing more collaborative printmaking.  The model from the April 29th, 2024 drawing session suggested that we make tessellation prints like MC Escher.  We liked her suggestion and laid out the project in a blog post made on May 2nd, 2024.

August 8, 2023
Printmakers in Henry Morales' studio in 2023 (L to R):
Virgil Velasco, Craig, Ellie Weadock,
 Henry Morales, and Cody Kamrowski


FIRST EXHIBITION

We ended the year with the First Exhibition of EXQUSISITE TESSELLATION prints in Albuquerque at Remarque Print Workshop, shown from December 13, 2024 to January 25, 2025:

THE FIRST Exquisite Tessellation Exhibition
The opening in Albuquerque
was on December 13, 2024

REMARQUE EXHIBITION 2024 -- Labeling CREDITS
We always celebrate a print opening OAXACA style,
with a good bottle of mezcal

El Paso Tessellation
EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print
pulled on Mexican Amate paper
in El Paso

REMARQUE EXHIBITION 2024 -- Labeling CREDITS
Labeling with artist credits


The "HAT" Tile

The "HAT" shape discovery was the solution to the "Ein Stein" problem (nothing to do with Albert) -- of finding a single tile that would tessellate infinitely without making a pattern:



Single "hat" vector file -- EinStein.SVG  (689 bytes)


Apparently the "hat" tile requires the addition of a few "MIRRORED HAT" tiles in order to tile infinitely:

Tessellation with "MIRRORED" HAT tiles


Dr Ben Miles explains the "HAT" tile and it's fascinating backstory on YouTube:

How a Hobbyist Created An Infinite Pattern
 That Never Repeats


LASER CUTTING

We have been LASER CUTTING "hat" shapes -- 7 inches at the WIDEST points -- from REAL linoleum, buying 12 x 18 inch sheets from Takach Press in Albuquerque:

Laser Cutting "Hat" Tessellation Tiles
We can laser cut up to 7 "hat" tiles
on a 12 x 18 inch piece of linoleum

LASER CUTTING FILES
LightBurn SINGLE "hat" file --**** 7inch_hat_square.LBRN2****  (10.51 KB)

7 inches at the widest


  • Only REAL linoleum is safe to use on the laser cutter, as a lot of other sheets sold at art stores are fake linoleum made with PVC, which can let off poisonous gas when burned by the laser.

PRINTMAKERS 

We post the individual "hat" prints online:



We also post photos of some of the PRINTMAKERS and tiles:

TESSELLATION Printmakers
Some of the tessellation printmakers
of 2024

June 3, 2024
Jeanette Cook delivered a handful of linocuts in June,
to get this project started with a bang


12 PRINTMAKING
SESSIONS

We made 35 PRINTS in 12 PRINTMAKING SESSIONS in 2024:

CLICK on the PHOTOS or LINKS below for more detailed info:



Hand-printed at the SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER in Albuquerque:

Guerilla Tessellation Print --
 at the South Broadway Cultural Center
We side-busted on the POST COVID BOMB exhibition
by making a guerilla print during the opening


JUNE 28

Three prints hand-printed at the SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE:

Santa Fe -- Exquisite Tessellation Print
Mike Kimball let us make prints
at the Santa Fe Community College


JULY 10

Hand-printed during the drawing session at the FUSION Arts complex in Albuquerque:

FUSION Tessellation -- in Albuquerque
Ellie Weadock printed in the back
during the July 10th drawing session at FUSION 


JULY 15

Five prints pulled on a press at UTEP in El Paso:

EL PASO Tessellation
Manuel Guerra pulled 5 prints
on a press in El Paso


AUGUST 11

Hand-printed during the PRINTERS PLANET market in Santa Fe:

Tessellation Prints -- PRINTERS PLANET 2024
Ellie and Stewart Weadock hand-print a tessellation image
during the PRINTERS PLANET market in Santa Fe


SEPTEMEBER 1

Hand printed in front of the Axle Contemporary Mobile Art van, in Socorro, New Mexico:

Axle Contemporary -- Guerilla Print in Socorro
Jerry Wellamn and Matthew Chase-Daniel hold up the tessellation masterpiece
printed in front of their Axle van in Socorro, New Mexico



Six prints hand-printed during the drawing session at Argos Studio/Gallery in Santa Fe:

Printing at Argos -- in Santa Fe
John Tollett arranges tessellation tiles at Argos Studio/Gallery
at the September 3rd drawing session in Santa Fe


SEPTEMBER 14

Five prints hand-printed at Hecho A Mano gallery in Santa Fe:

CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints at HECHO A MANO gallery
Eliza Lutz arranges tessellation tiles in Santa Fe
before hand-printing at HECHO A MANO gallery



Two prints pulled on a press at CNM community college on the west side in Albuquerque:

CNM -- Tessellation Printing
Ellie Weadock prints on the westside of Albuquerque
 at the Central New Mexico community college


OCTOBER 12

Four prints hand-printed in Silver City, New Mexico during the after-party for the Southwest Print Fiesta:

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Tessellation After-Party
Jessi Cross arranges the tiles in Silver City, New Mexico
during the after-party for the Southwest Print Fiesta


NOVEMBER 9

Hand printed during the first Day of the Dead Parade at the CIVIC PLAZA in downtown Albuquerque:

Guerilla Tessellation Print --
 Day of the Dead Parade Albuquerque 2024
Henry Morales hand-prints guerilla-style
at the Civic Center Plaza in Albuquerque



NOVEMBER 23

Five color prints pulled on a press at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque:

A Great Day at Remarque in Albuquerque -- Tessellations
Teamwork printing with AKUA colors in Albuquerque
at Remarque Print Workshop


TUCSON

Karl Whitaker is collecting tiles in ALBUQUERQUE, Manuel Guerra is collecting tiles in EL PASO -- and now Joe Marshall has jumped in and is collecting tiles in TUCSON:

Joe Marshall in Tucson
has started to collect and print tessellation tiles

Note how the individual "HAT" tessellation prints look great by themselves, in 8x8 inch frames when hung on the wall together.  They can be carried around in a BUCKET and displayed spontaneously -- which was the ORIGINAL CONCEPT of the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: 
Is it the individual carving, the communal printmaking, or the exhibiting that delivers the most satisfaction from the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project?

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Sunday, December 15, 2024

THE FIRST Exquisite Tessellation Exhibition

The opening for our first EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print exhibition was on Friday, December 13, 2024, at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque. We piggybacked on their 12th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition:





Our corner of the gallery/studio





Jeanette Cook directed a color printmaking session,
and is standing in front of one of their color masterpieces


Casandra Encinias' tile is also in the color masterpiece,
which she helped print


Daniel Allen points to his tile
in the larger print made in Santa Fe


Daniel also helped us make
 the FIRST Tessellation print


Barbara Endicott is represented in the larger print,
made in Silver City


Julianna Kirwin is also represented in the same larger print,
made in Silver City


Ellie Weadock stands next to her individual print
of two horses

LYELL CASTONGUAY'S print is hung in the middle of the New Mexico individual prints because he helped inspire the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project.  He printed the large collaboration print by Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, and Virgil Velasco in April 2024, when BIG INK came to town.  

The experience was so successful that everyone wanted to continue collaborative printmaking in some way, like the Surrealist game -- the Exquisite Corpse.  After the model suggested tessellation, we decided to collaborate with the recently discovered "hat" aperiodic tessellation tiles:

Lyell Castonguay of Maine
is the center of the New Mexico collection of prints



Lyell Castonguay from BIG INK
making big prints in Albuquerque 

The large collaborative print in April 2024,
by Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, and Virgil Velasco


So far we have made two scrapbooks of the tessellation prints from the New Mexico collection and the El Paso collection:

Nicholas Tesluk holding the scrapbook of
the other individual tessellation prints


Kirsten and Nicholas
checking out the other individual tessellation prints


Notebooks with all the artist credits


Eric representing Las Vegas, New Mexico


The inventor of the JR Hardground 
came to the opening





We always bring a good bottle of mezcal to our openings,
as a nod to the fantastic printmakers of Oaxaca


12th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
JURIED PRINT EXHIBITION

The main course was Remarque's 12th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL JURIED PRINT EXHIBITION, featured in the two main galleries up front:
 
SELECTED
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Click on Photos for detailed info

NOV/DEC 2023
88 small prints
hanging in the last exhibition
of the North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque


DECEMBER 2022
We showed 26 small 8x8 inch prints
at Remarque Print Workshop in December 2022


FEBRUARY 2019
We showed prints from both NEW MEXICO and EL PASO
at Remarque Print Workshop in 2019


AUGUST 2017
We exhibited great works
from young contemporary Mexican printmakers


JULY 2016
  • We exhibited the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta at the Matrix Gallery in 2016, which was part of New Grounds Print Workshop at the time (later to become Remarque Print Workshop)
The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta
exhibited at the Matrix Gallery in Albuquerque


We look forward to more EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print exhibitions in 2025, hopefully in Albuquerque, El Paso, Silver City and Tucson.

  • Naturally we will be pulling more tessellation prints next year, including at the Remarque Open House on Saturday, January 11th, 2025, from 2 - 4 PM.

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