TUCSON visits ALBUQUERQUE

JOE MARSHALL from Tucson, his wife JOSEPHINE THOMASON and daughter REYNA made some quick prints in Albuquerque when they visited Quelab on June 28, 2025:

Joe Marshall  of Tucson 

printing with a Tortilla Press in Albuquerque

Joe and his family used the curvy stiff foam tessellation tiles like we did for the ATOMIC 66 print demo/workshop at Quelab earlier, on June 13, 2025:

The quick collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION print

made at Quelab from curvy stiff foam tiles

Joe and his family made individual prints,

as well as a collaborative tessellation print

The first step is to draw/gouge into stiff foam with a ball point pen. The lines will be white after the tile is inked and printed:

Joe, Josephine and Reyna

gouging into stiff foam with ball point pens

to make a design to print

Works in process --

the deep inked lines

will print as white lines

Josephine inking

Printing with the Tortilla Press

Print by Josephine Thomason

Reyna inking

Reyna Marshall's print

Joe inking, Reyna printing

Joe Marshall's print

Then they put all three tessellation pieces together to make an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION collaborative print:

Inking the three plates together

We did not have a burnisher, so we used a Styrofoam dish, and that worked just fine for a proof on drawing paper:

Burnishing with a Styrofoam dish

The reveal

The collaborative tessellation print

on regular drawing paper

Imagine how this EXQUISTE TESSELLATION print might look in color, and with more plates:

Joe Marshall and Josephine Thomason run the HEART OF THE SUN Gallery/Studio in Tucson:

HEART OF THE SUN Gallery/Studio

in Tucson, Arizona

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PREVIOUS PRINTMAKING

with JOE MARSHALL

YAYBIG SOUTHWEST

We have been working and making prints with Joe Marshall since at least 2013, when he had his YAYBIG Gallery in Tucson at 174 E Toole Street:

Homecoming -- Southwest Collection at YayBig Gallery in Tucson

YAYBIG SOUTHWEST print exhibition

at YAYBIG Gallery in Tucson, 2014

Homecoming -- Southwest Collection at YayBig Gallery in Tucson

The PLANET HAMSTER van

was part of the big YAYBIG SOUTHWEST Print opening

We would have pop-up print shows all around the Southwest called YAYBIG SOUTHWEST -- and eventually we self-published a print catalog: YAYBIG SOUTHWEST Print Collection 2014:

YAYBIG SOUTHWEST catalog is still on sale at LULU

The culmination of that effort was when we showed our YAYBIG SOUTHWEST collection at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Texas in 2015: 

Brownsville Opening and Presentation

Print show at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley -- November 2015

YAYBIG PRINT EXCHANGE

Joe Marshall also directed the YAYBIG PRINT EXCHANGE, which graced the covered of the ZOCALO Magazine in November 2014:

3 Year Run -- Summary

YAYBIG PRINT EXCHANGE

on the cover of the November 2014 issue of ZOCALO Magazine

We exhibited the YAYBIG Print Exchange together with the HORNED TOAD Print Exchange, organized by Manuel Guerra of El Paso in many places -- Tucson, El Paso, Santa Fe, Juarez, Sacramento, Yuma:

The YAYBIG PRINT EXCHANGE on exhibit in El Paso

with the HORNED TOAD PRINT EXCHANGE

DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA

Joe Marshall also submitted the first print to the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA:

First Print -- Joe Marshall

Joe Marshall holding his print

for the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA

Joe Marshall was also part of our big PRINTS BY SOUTHWEST exhibition in Albuquerque at the South Broadway Cultural Center in 2017:

Abq Broadway show

Joe Marshall's print

in the PRINTS BY SOUTHWEST exhibition 2017

at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque

"Prints by Southwest" Opening

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