OPEN HOUSE at REMARQUE 2025 -- SUMMARY

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP in Albuquerque had their annual OPEN HOUSE from 2 - 4 PM, on January 11, 2025 -- to demo all the printmaking techniques that that offer.  We demoed the "Little/Big" relief printmaking as someone called it (aka EXQUISITE TESSELLATION):

Collaborative print with  an individual tessellation tile

at REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP is located in Albuquerque just a few blocks east of Nob Hill -- at 3812 Central Ave SE:

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

is located just east of Nob Hill in Albuquerque

OPEN HOUSE at Remarque from 2 - 4 PM

on January 11, 2025

INDEX

• BIG Tessellation Prints -- at Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS -- Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques

ANTICIPATION

The anticipation builds with the flyer:

Flyer for the OPEN HOUSE

The print lovers enjoyed the demos in both the front and back studios:

Demos in the FRONT STUDIO

Demos in the BACK STUDIO

JESSICA WEYBRIGHT, one of the four owners of Remarque, watches over the demos from the

Jessica Weybright at the desk

Currently we have an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print exhibition hanging at Remarque Print Workshop:

REMARQUE EXHIBITION 2024 -- Labeling CREDITS

Our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print exhibition

hanging at Remarque Print Workshop

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BLOG POSTS

CLICKING on the PHOTOS also goes to the links:

BIG Tessellation Prints --
 at Remarque OPEN HOUSE

Virgil Velasco and Ellie Weadock

pull a fresh tessellation print from the press

LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS --

 Remarque OPEN HOUSE

We printed Ellie's individual tessellation tile

with an antique LETTERPRESS

OPEN HOUSE at Remarque --

 Other Printmaking Techniques

Lincoln Draper concentrates on photo polymer printing

in the front studio

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PREVIOUS OPEN HOUSES

at Remarque Print Workshop

 2019

Remarque had an OPEN HOUSE on September 21, 2019:

Remarque Printmaking Demos

Hands-on milk carton demo at Remarque

at the OPEN HOUSE in 2019

2022

We demoed small relief prints of BUCKET EXHIBITIONS at the Remarque Print Workshop Open House in 2022 on April 30th:

Printmaking Rising

OPEN HOUSE at Remarque

April 30, 2022

Printmaking Rising

An OPEN HOUSE visitor in 2022

prints on our TORTILLA Press

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THE MOVE

This is the last OPEN HOUSE at the Nob Hill location.  Remarque is moving to the old Tortuga Art Space at 901 Edith Blvd SE in Albuquerque in the summer:

Moving

Remarque is moving to the old Tortuga Art Space

February 3, 2024

They were already sprucing up the new Tortuga Art Space

last February 2023

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• BIG Tessellation Prints -- at Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS -- Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques

OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP in Albuquerque is mostly an etching studio, and the main event on January 11, 2025 was to demonstrate all the printmaking techniques they work with:

OPEN HOUSE announcement

at REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

Anne Steen silk-screening in the back studio

FRONT STUDIO

The main course was happening in the FRONT STUDIO -- Photo Polymer plate printing, Copper plate etching, and monotype:

Entrance to the front studio

The Front Studio

MONOTYPE

MARY SUNDSTROM demoed monotype printmaking:

Mary Sundstrom monoprint set-up

Tracing the image

Removing an inked acrylic see-thru plate,

with the sketch below it

COPPERPLATE INTAGLIO

MONICA PARKER demoed etching from copper plates:

The etching set-up

with all the colored inks laid out on cardboard tabs

ready to apply to the copper etching plate

Monica with drawing next to her print

Monica's etching

PHOTO POLYMER 

LINCOLN DRAPER, one of the four owners of Remarque, demoed the photo polymer process. One can transfer a photo image to a photo polymer plate, and print it like it were a copperplate etching:

Lincoln applying ink to the photo polymer plate

Printing the photo polymer plate on a press

Lincoln briefly stored the print in a plastic bag, so that the damp paper would not shrink when the water evaporated.  This is critical when printing a second plate over the first, in order that the printing plates register perfectly on the paper:

Temporarily storing the print in a plastic bag,

before printing over it with a second plate

The final photo polymer masterpiece

BACK STUDIO

More printmaking demos happened in the back studio -- Screenprint, Mokuhanga, Exquisite Tessellation relief printmaking, and Mezzotint:

Entrance to the back studio

MEZZOTINT

HOLLAND HARDIE demoed these small mezzotint plates:

Small mezzotint copper plates

SILK SCREEN

ANNE STEEN demoed the silk-screening process in the back studio:

The transparencies,

that were exposed onto the screens

Anne about to screen the first color, red

The final red and black silkscreen prints

Anne paints directly onto the screen

showing off the silkscreen monoprint technique

Silkscreen masterpieces

• OPEN HOUSE at REMARQUE 2025 -- SUMMARY

• BIG Tessellation Prints -- at Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS -- Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques

LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS -- Remarque OPEN HOUSE

We also made individual tessellation prints, and collaborated with other printmaking techniques:

Jessica Krichels printed Ellie Weadock's tessellation tile on the antique LETTERPRESS:

Ellie Weadock's tessellation tile

printed by the antique LETTERPRESS

It was practically Gutenberg:

Animation of the antique LETTERPRESS at work

The tessellation linocut

was first mounted on a block

to make it "type-high"

The LETTERPRESS at Remarque

JESSICA KRICHELS, one of the four owners of Remarque, operates the letterpress:

Jessica Krichels, one of the four owners of Remarque,

 operates the letterpress

HOLLAND HARDIE, also an owner of Remarque, was doing a relief demo with the tessellation tile:

Holland carved a bird into the tessellation linocut

Holland also had previously carved a climber into a tessellation linocut:

Holland printed individual tessellation tiles for the relief demo:

Holland printed individual tessellation tiles

for the relief demo

We added Holland's linocut to a larger EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print:

We added Holland's linocut

to the sixth and last EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print

We also added Holland's tessellation linocut to one of Anne Steen's silkscreen prints:

The EXQUISITE COLLABORATION:

Silkscreen and Relief linocut printing

combined!

• Unfortunately I did not get any photos of the Mokunhanga demonstration -- however I think we should try this process to make EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints

• OPEN HOUSE at REMARQUE 2025 -- SUMMARY

• BIG Tessellation Prints -- at Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• LITTLE Tessellation prints and COLLABORATIONS -- Remarque OPEN HOUSE

• OPEN HOUSE at Remarque -- Other Printmaking Techniques