CUBAN PRINTMAKERS

We were very lucky to encounter a couple of Cuban Printmakers.  STUART ASHMAN brought them to his gallery in Santa Fe -- ARTES DE CUBA -- and we got to meet printmakers MARCEL MOLINA and ABEL BARROSO at the opening on June 6, 2025:  

ARTES DE CUBA 

Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico

MARCEL MOLINA

MARCEL MOLINA is on Instagram:

MARCEL MOLINA

just finished this print right before coming to Santa Fe

MARCEL MOLINA carved this plate

 in his short time in Santa Fe

December 26, 2023

 I had bought this Marcel Molina print

back in 2023

ABEL BARROSO

ABEL BARROSO is on Instagram:

ABEL BARROSO in front of his sculpture at the opening

ABEL BARROSO in front of his prints at the opening

This print is of the Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris

FRANCISCO DELGADO of El Paso had an opening the same night at HECHO A MANO gallery in Santa Fe. However the next day he was able to come see the Cuban exhibition, and got to meet the two printmakers on June 7th:

Francisco Delgado with Marcel Molina

Francisco Delgado with Abel Barroso

Francisco has made several prints himself, such as the one below that he made in Oaxaca for the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA:

Francisco Delgado made his edition in Oaxaca in 2015

for the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA

JOSE TOIRAC

I (your blogger) was also  pleased to meet JOSE TOIRAC again.  Tanya Rich and Karl Whitaker had met Jose Toirac in his Havana studio back in 2018.  He has work with the Pan American Art Project in Miami, and also has an Instagram:

JOSE TOIRAC in Santa Fe, 2025

JOSE TOIRAC in Havana, 2018

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We had previously gone to a Cuban art event in Santa Fe, sponsored by STUART ASHMAN, when DARIEN FERNANDEZ came, as well as CLANDETINA to print shirts at the International Folk Market in October 18-20, 2019:

DARIEN FERNANDEZ of Cuba

in Santa Fe in 2019

Albuquerque Stirrings (and Cuba)

CLANDETINA from Cuba, printing t-shirts in Santa Fe in 2019

PRINT PORTFOLIOS

Also note that STUART ASHMAN was behind the CUBA EXCHANGE print portfolio around 2016 -- the same time we were showing the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA, with prints from Tucson, El Paso and Albuquerque.

This was a real treat to see the Cuban artists and printmakers in New Mexico.  Again, because prints travel easily they break borders, and best give us glimpses of lands far away.