Remarque Re-Opening

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP in Albuquerque had their Grand Re-Opening at their new location -- 901 Edith SE -- on August 2nd, 2025, and we did some live printmaking for the event as part of the festivities:

Remarque Print Workshop had a Grand Re-Opening

at their new location in Albuquerque

REMARQUE Moving their PRESSES

Remarque's new location at the old Tortuga Gallery --

901 Edith SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico

There was a good attendance

throughout the Re-Opening night

The Collaborative Woodcut

directed by Janet Shagam

Quick Curvy EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print

QUADLENSIC -- Luke Phillip and Friends -- played in the back yard

TAKACH PRESS had moved all the Remarque presses earlier to the new location, on June 23rd, 2025:

REMARQUE Moving their PRESSES

Moving the Presses for Remarque

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 COLLABORATIVE PRINT

directed by Janet Shagam

JANET SHAGAM directed a large collaborative woodcut (Janet Shagam also made a BIG INK print in 2024):

 Janet Shagam cuts down a large piece of paper,

 in anticipation of printing a large collaborative woodcut

Visitors were invited to carve on the big woodcut:

Janet Shagam standing next to the carvers

Big inking

The Grand Reveal of the Collaborative Print!

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QUICK TESSELLATION PRINTMAKING

We brought Curvy Tessellation tiles to make quick EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints.  Visitors drew/gouged into the stiff foam tiles with ball point pens, and we then printed them on the Tortilla Press (like we did at Quelab during the ATOMIC 66 Open House).  The tiles were cut by a CNC into the curvy shapes at Quelab. While all the tiles fit together, we did not have time to make a bigger print:

The quick CURVY TESSELLATION set-up

All the CURVY TESSELLATION tiles fit together,

to make a bigger print

Printing the CURVY TESSELLATION tile

with the TORTILLA PRESS

Tim Jag, organizer of THE PRINTERS PLANET,

pressed his CURVY TESSELLATION tile

Anne Steen

showing off her curvy tessellation print

Persistence

three tries to get the inking down right

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TORTILLA PRESS

We also used the TORTILLA PRESS to print small "street taco sized" linocuts, that had been engraved with a laser cutter at Quelab, from images generated by AI in Midjourney:

Street Taco Sized -- AI Linocuts

"Street taco sized" linocuts generated in Midjourney

 and engraved into linoleum with a laser cutter

The AI roadrunner and AI chihuahua

are the most popular "street taco sized" prints

Someone also printed from a Styrofoam disc that he drew into (like we did at the Juan Tabo library with the kids):

Printing from a Styrofoam disc

with a TORTILLA PRESS

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SETTING UP

Letting me know that

the spread wasn't quite ready yet

The beautiful new studio 

Five BUCKET EXHIBITION prints were hanging at Remarque Print Workshop, three of which we recently printed in Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque:

PRINTERS PLANET TAOS 2025 -- FRESH PRINTS

MADA SUMMER CELEBRATION -- Printmaking in Santa Fe

PRINTMAKING IN COLOR

(l to r) Holland Hardie, Ellie Weadock, 

Henry Morales, Mary Sundstrom,

Virgil Velasco

We also showed off the big color EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print that we made in Las Vegas, New Mexico -- in Julie Sola's studio, FAT CROW PRESS:

Color EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print

made with Julie Sola in Las Vegas, New Mexico

Of course we had to bring a bottle of good mezcal,

to celebrate Oaxaca Style with 400 Conejos!!!

Remarque got serious about moving when TAKACH PRESS came to move all their presses to the new location on June 23, 2025:

REMARQUE Moving their PRESSES

TAKACH PRESS

moving the Remarque printing presses

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PREVIOUS LOCATION

We have worked with Remarque Print Workshop for over a decade at their previous Albuquerque location in Nob Hill -- 3812 Central Ave. SE #100B:

2014

• YayBigSouthwest at New Grounds in Albuquerque:

Our YayBig Southwest pop-up print show

 at New Grounds Print Workshop and Gallery

2015

• Ruben Urrea Moreno

2016

• Matrix Fine Art Gallery opening in Albuquerque:

We exhibited the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

at the Matrix Fine Art Gallery, which was part of New Grounds

2017

• "Prints by Southwest" Opening:

Remarque had a whole wall of prints(Jessica Weybright standing)

at the South Broadway Cultural Center

for the PRINTS BY SOUTHWEST exhibition

• Relief + Color Weekend Workshop by Pavel Acevedo
• From Behind the Wall -- Mexican Prints in Albuquerque

2019

• Summary -- Living Relief

2021

• New Mexico Printmaking Invitational 2021

2022

• Printmaking Rising
• BUCKET EXHIBITIONS at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

2023

• Remarque Open House

2024

• Second Coming of Pavel with Daniel Gonzalez:

Pavel Acevedo and Daniel Gonzales

came from LA for a printmaking workshop at Remarque

• A Great Day at Remarque in Albuquerque -- Tessellations

• THE FIRST Exquisite Tessellation Exhibition:

We had our first big exhibition at Remarque

of the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints

• REMARQUE EXHIBITION 2024 -- Labeling CREDITS

2025

• BIG Tessellation Prints -- at Remarque OPEN HOUSE
• LITTLE BIRDS Exquisite Tessellation Prints

• Printmaking SOCIAL HOUR:

We went to Anne Steen's 

SCREEN PRINT SOCIAL HOUR

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REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

New Location: 901 Edith SE, Albuquerque

UNM Museum Print Collection

ANGEL JIANG, Curator of Collections and Study Room Initiatives, took us on a tour of the Print Collection of the University of New Mexico Art Museum on August 1, 2025:

Angel Jiang explaining the prints

in the collections room of the UNM Art Museum

PRINTS on the TABLE

LYND WARD

Woodcut

WARRINGTON COLESCOTT

color etching and drypoint

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

lithograph

DAVID HOCKNEY

book etchings

DAVID HOCKNEY

book etchings

List of the PRINTS

PRINTS on the WALL

JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE

lithograph

KIKI SMITH

lithograph

EMMI WHITEHORSE

lithograph

T C CANNON

lithograph

LUIS JIMENEZ

drawing

 LEONARD LEHRER

lithograph

WAYNE THIEBAUD

lithograph

STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER

etching

GRANT WOOD

lithograph

GUSTAVE BAUMANN

woodcut

SUE COE

etching

SUE COE

etching

• Thank you to Loren for organizing this visit

PREVIOUS UNM PRINT VISIT

2017

Apparently there is another print collection at UNM in the Center for Southwest Research: 

On April 28, 2017, Dr Suzanne Schadl brought out several portfolios from Mexican artists for display, in the Waters Room, in the Center for Southwest Research, at the Zimmerman Library of the University of New Mexico:.

Albuquerque Spring

Prints from the "Por La Madre Tierra" portfolio,

just one of the Mexican portfolios

brought out for temporary display

Albuquerque Spring

Dr Suzanne Schadl also took us to the vaults below

 to show us more Latin American prints

Albuquerque Spring

Vault Archive

below the Zimmerman Library

at the University of New Mexico

Albuquerque Spring

One of the portfolios 

from the Oaxaca Collective Carpeta

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Karl had met a lot of the printmakers in Oaxaca and bought both the portfolios of the OAXACA COLLECTIVE from Irving Herrera in 2016, which included bottles of mezcal:

 

Oaxaca Carpeta

Both porfolios of the Oaxaca Collective Carpeta

Oaxaca Carpeta

Karl bought the portfolios in Oaxaca

from Irving Herrera (pictured)

Karl donated those Oaxaca portfolios to the University of Arizona Museum collection in 2023 (when we exhibited the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta there).