Saturday, July 5, 2025

Coming to Juarez

We are going to exhibit the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints in Mexico at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez -- in the gallery of CENTRO CULTURAL DE LAS FRONTERAS -- as part of the Túnel Gráfico exhibition, from August 22nd to October 18, 2025:


Open call for the 
Túnel Gráfico exhibition in Juarez

We plan on exhibiting EXQUISISTE TESSELLATION collections from:

in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico


Inside the


UACJ Print Professors Eduardo Reyes and Luis Roacho
show the gallery to Karl Whitaker on May 10th, 2025


The gallery is huge

The CENTRO CULTURAL DE LAS FRONTERAS is located in the ZONA PRONAF, not too far from the MEXICO/US border -- Anillo Envolvente Jose Reyes Estrada, 445, Zona Pronaf, 32315 Juárez, Chih., Mexico:




CIUDAD JUAREZ

Crossing the Santa Fe bridge into Mexico, we see this mural on the Juarez side of the Rio Grande, by artist and printmaker Jorge "Yorch" Perez:



This mural is based on a print that Yorch had made previously about the bridge (see below). Note the female factory worker on the right -- Yorch says that most of the workers in the maquiladoras are women:

The Rio Grande mural is based on Yorch's print of the US/MEXICO bridge --
Javi Nopales bought this print in 2017


Crossing into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
on the Santa Fe bridge on May 10th, 2025

HEROES of JUAREZ


TIN TAN was a Mexican movie star:

PLAZA CERVANTINA

YORCH and the printmakers are reviving Plaza Cervantina in Ciudad Juarez:

YORCH in PLAZA CERVANTINA





In front of Yorch's new printmaking shop in Plaza Cervantina -- LOS ENTIN-TAN -- I met the UACJ printmaking professors that are putting on the exhibition:

LOS ENTIN-TAN printmaking shop in Plaza Cervantina --
UACJ printmaking professors :
Luis Roacho -- Artes Visuales
Eduardo Reyes -- Diseno/Filosofia
Candido Valdez -- Printmaking

Unfortunately we did not get to see Yorch on this visit:

PRINTS by the UACJ PROFESSORS

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION print by
Professor Candido Valdez


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints by
Professor Candido Valdez


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints by
Professor Candido Valdez


Inside the Juarez printmaking taller -- LOS ENTIN-TAN:







Print-in-process by Yorch


Outside they were carving linoleum as well


Using a razor blade folded over,
to carve linoleum

YORCH had a BUCKET EXHIBITIONS show at previous panaderia location in 2022, on the street "16 de Septiembre":



I used to buy Papel Amate at MONARCA PADI in Juarez, which apparently has moved. We like printing on this paper:

Monarca Padi


RETURNING to the USA

This statue greets people
on the way back to the USA


Mexican and USA flags
on the bridge over the Rio Grande




View of El Paso from the Santa Fe Bridge


2016

We have exhibited in Juarez previously in 2016 -- with the "El Pueblo vs El Chuco" Print Exchanges exhibition in the Juarez Contemporary Gallery:

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