BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: December 2024

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:

Link to the ARTISTS CREDITS

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:

Jennifer Silfer standing in front of her print

in the 12th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition

Jennifer Silfer handed out stickers

of the individual cells in her larger print

The main front gallery

of the 12th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition

East wall

12th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition

North wall

12th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition

West wall

12th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition

Smaller front gallery of the

12th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition

SELECTED

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

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NOV/DEC 2023

At the end of last year (Nov/Dec 2023) BUCKET EXHIBITIONS showed 88 small 8x8 inch prints at The North FOURTH ART CENTER in Albuquerque:

88 small prints

hanging in the last exhibition

of the North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque

DECEMBER 2022

We showed 26 BUCKET EXHIBITION prints at Remarque Print Workshop in December 2022:

We showed 26 small 8x8 inch prints

at Remarque Print Workshop in December 2022

FEBRUARY 2019

We had a "NEW MEXICO: LIVING RELIEF" print exhibition at Remarque Print Workshop in February 2019. We hung prints from both NEW MEXICO and EL PASO.

We showed prints from both NEW MEXICO and EL PASO

at Remarque Print Workshop in 2019

This was a response to the great concurrent print show at the Albuquerque Museum -- The Carved Line: Block Printmaking in New Mexico.

AUGUST 2017

We showed prints from Mexico at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque -- "From Behind the Wall -- Prints by Contemporary Mexican Maestros"

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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Our first exhibition of the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints is at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. THE OPENING was on Friday, December 13th, 5 - 8 PM. The exhibition runs until January 25th, 2025 -- open on Friday and Saturdays, 10 AM to 6 PM:

We celebrated Oaxaca style during the opening

with a bottle of mezcal

Our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Exhibition is piggybacking on Remarque's 12th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition:

Remarque Print Workshop's

12th Annual International Juried Exhibition

The EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project is based on a shape that will tessellate infinitely -- without ever creating a regular pattern. This particular "hat" shape is called an "aperiodic monotile," and it was only recently discovered in late 2022 by DAVID SMITH. Since last May (2024) we have been laser cutting this "hat" shape from linoleum -- and asking artists to carve and send back their linocut tiles. Then we piece the tiles together to make larger collaborative tessellation prints, not unlike in the Surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse.

The impulse to make collaborative prints came from the studio of Henry Morales. First, after Virgil Velasco suggested making small two-person prints. Then the momentum continued when Henry, Virgil and Ellie Weadock collaborated to carve a large plate (28" x 48"), for Lyell Castonguay of BIG INK to print when came to Albuquerque last April. This collaboration fever continues with the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project, as linocuts come in from all over the Southwest to be printed together, just to see what happens.

While we are collecting tessellation linocuts in ALBUQUERQUE -- Manuel Guerra is collecting another set in EL PASO -- and Joe Marshall has begun collecting tessellation tiles in TUCSON. We have even sent a stack of tessellation tiles to Tres Gatos Press in Guadalajara.

ARTIST CREDITS

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