BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: 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

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!

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

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