BUCKET EXHIBITIONS

Friday, December 2, 2022

BUCKET EXHIBITIONS at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

We showed 26 BUCKET PRINTS and had a great opening at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque on Friday, December 2, 2022, from 5- 8 PM. Our framed 8x8 inch collection piggybacked on their main show -- the 10th Annual International Juried Printmaking Exhibition:

A toast of good mezcal

to start the opening

(Phoebe, Holland and Jessica K -- left to right)

The theme was MEXICAN (top row) and REMARQUE (Albuquerque artists -- bottom row) prints:

The TOP row was all Mexican prints --

the BOTTOM row was prints from Remarque artists,

fleshed out with a few more Albuquerque artists,

plus one from Eli Levin and another by DALL-E 2

The main feature at Remarque was the 10th Annual International Juried Printmaking Exhibition, which runs from December 2nd, 2022 through January 28th, 2023. We are more than honored to exhibit with such great company! Our 26 BUCKET PRINTS will also be up during those same two months:

Flyer for the

10th Annual International Juries Printmaking Exhibition

"Bucket Exhibitions"

is mentioned on the flyer

Diana Gaston, the director of Tamarind Institute,

studies our Bucket Prints in the background

Carol Lynn Moder

director of the Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos,

as seen from the back here

View of the opening

on the other side of the studio

Mary Sundstrom

sold her print to a young art lover from Australia

Holland Hardie and her print

Jessica Krichels and her print

Jessica Weybright next to her print

Henry Morales pointing at his print

Virgil Velasco pointing at his print

Julianna Kirwin cutting down her print

in her studio in Albuquerque --

however she made her print in Oaxaca

10th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition

The main course at Remarque was their 10th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition in the two main galleries up front:

The big main gallery

The smaller main gallery

I posted pictures of some, but not all, of the prints AT THIS LINK (and I missed a lot of great prints):

Brewster Fitz of Santa Fe

stands by his print in the

10th Annual International Juried Exhibition

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The PRINTS

It took an hour to hang the show

on November 30, 2022

We hung two buckets of prints

MEXICAN PRINTS

(Top Row)

1) Adrian Aguirre (Zaachila, Oaxaca)

2) Beatriz Rivas (Zaachila, Oaxaca)

3) Arturo Franco (Zaachila, Oaxaca)

4) Sam Gardner (Oaxaca, Oaxaca)

5) Adrian Bastarrachea (Zaachila, Oaxaca)

6) Igor Galvez Buenfil (Monterrey, Mexico)

7) Jose Luis Carrera Garza (Monterrey, Mexico)

8) Ulises Vargas Moreno (Monterrey, Mexico)

9) David Meat Bravo Bravo (Juarez, Mexico)

10) Jorge "Yorch" Perez (Juarez, Mexico)

11) Xavier Moreno (Guadalajara, Mexico)

12) Alejandra Mares (Guadalajara, Mexico)

13) Ulises Vargas Moreno (Monterrey, Mexico)

REMARQUE PRINTS

(Albuquerque artists -- Bottom Row)

14) Holland Hardie

15) Jessica Krichels

16) Jessica Weybright

17) Mary Sundstrom

18) Pamela Wesolek

19) Eli Levin (Dixon, New Mexico)

20) Julianna Kirwin

21) Cody Kamrowski

22) Henry Morales

23) Virgil Velasco

24) Aaron Bass

25) Karl Whitaker

26) DALL-E 2 (Artificial Intelligence -- generated by Holly Grimm, Santa Fe)

NOTE: The last print was fake, generated by DALL-E 2, an online text-to-image AI (artificial intelligence) program. Holly Grimm had early access and generated a black-and-white image of a printmaker. Karl engraved it into linoleum using the laser cutter at Quelab, and printed it out on his Tortilla Press.

It's always nice to see good prints hanging at Remarque. Andrew Polk used to teach printmaking the University of Arizona, where we met him many years back:

Andrew Polk's print

still hangs at Remarque

Susan Dubois

We like to follow the Oaxaca tradition

and offer a sip of good mezcal

at our print openings (imported by Juanitos)

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Our Previous Remarque-able Experiences

We have previously shown prints at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque:

2017 July -- FROM BEHIND THE WALL: Prints from Contemporary Mexican Maestros :

This exhibition traveled to the El Paso Museum of Art as a pop-up in October 6-8, 2017:

One exquisite wall of young master Mexican printmakers

By Angel Velasco --

See all the Mexican prints

at THIS LINK

Showing prints from the Oaxaca Carpeta

at the opening

2019 Feburary -- NEW MEXICO: LIVING RELIEF:

The gallery and prints

of the Living Relief exhibition --

see all the prints at THIS LINK

The opening for the Living Relief exhibition

Workshop

Plus we brought in Pavel Acevedo to give a relief printmaking workshop at Remarque in April 2017, in conjunction with the PRINTS by SOUTHWEST exhibition at the South Broadway Cultural Center. Pavel is originally from Oaxaca, but lives in Riverside, California now:

Pavel Acevedo gave a relief print workshop

at Remarque, April 22- 23, 2017

PRINTS by SOUTHWEST in 360°

exhibition at the South Broadway Cultural Center -- 2017

We would love to show more BUCKET PRINTS at Remarque again.

Argos Pop-up in Santa Fe

Karl Whitaker took a bucket of prints up to Santa Fe for a pop-up print show during the Tuesday Night Life Drawing Group at Argos Studio Gallery on November 29, 2022. All 12 prints were from Santa Fe artists, many of whom have attended the drawing group:

The model checks out the

print pop-up show

The Argos Studio Gallery is a printmaking studio and gallery in Santa Fe. They moved to a new location after the Covid pandemic, not far from their old location:

Dr Bell lecturing about his historic print show

at the old Argos Gallery Studio in 2017

We showed the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange at the old Argos Studio Gallery location in 2017:

Manuel Guerra of El Paso at Argos,

standing with Eli Levin (right)

who co-founded the Santa Fe Etching club in 1981

Also note that our Bucket Prints made the 2022 compilation video from Axle Contemporary mobile art gallery of Santa Fe, of the exhibitions we did in July, 2022:

Our Bucket Prints exhibition

made the Axle Projects compilation video of 2022

Thank you Eric Thomson for running the Argos Studio Gallery in Santa Fe all these years!!!

Monday, October 31, 2022

Southwest Print Fiesta 2022 Summary

We were proud to show the 8x8 inch prints at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2022 in Silver City, New Mexico, from October 7 - 10. The SWPF posted some pictures of our show and the festival on Facebook.

The BIG and the SMALL

This year's Print Fiesta ranged from the tiny to the huge. The Open Press Project sent their tiny Print Exchange from Germany, of 7x7 cm prints displayed in 3D printed frames. How elegant!

Open Press Print Exchange 2022

Meanwhile the huge 42x42 inch prints were pressed with a steamroller, INDOORS to avoid the rain:

Steamroller printing

The Southwest Print Fiesta just gets better every year. Even though it rained hard during the 7th Annual Print Fiesta, everything was moved indoors, even the steamroller printing. A visitor did not experience any speed bumps. Again, thank you Kyle Durrie and Jamie Karolich of Power and Light Press for pulling everything off so seamlessly!

OPEN PRESS EXHIBITION