Sunday, April 30, 2023

PRINT SANTA FE

We piggybacked on PRINT SANTA FE and managed to show some BUCKET PRINTS and indulge in Live Printmaking:


SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Greta Young
standing in front of her print
showing at the Santa Fe Community College


We showed a BUCKET-o-PRINTS in the Santa Fe Community College gallery, thanks to Mike Kimball.  It's been up since the second week of April, and will stay up until the end of May 2023:


The front gallery of the Fine Arts Center Building
at the Santa Fe Community College


The Fine Arts Center
of Santa Fe Community College



One BUCKET of 13 prints
hanging in the gallery at the 
Santa Fe Community College
















The BUCKET and the PRINTS


The other PRINTS



MONOTHON PRINT WEEK

Krrrl proposed this print pop-up during a MONOTHON 2023 session that Mike Kimball was running on Saturday, April 8th at the Santa Fe Community College:

Monothon 2023


Mike Kimball with coffee cup
running the MONOTHON session
in the printmaking studio of Santa Fe Community College


Stan Berning making a monoprint
at the Santa Fe Community College


One of Stan Berning's monoprints
hanging at the Santa Fe Community Gallery
as part of the Monothon Exhibition


Stan Berning's other studio
is a gallery on Canyon Road


LIVE PRINTMAKING

Mini Print Exhibition

We also did some live printmaking for the opening of the MiniPrint exhibition  at Hecho A Mano gallery on Canyon Road.  There is a whole complete blog post about this event.

Live printmaking on Canyon Road
in front of Hecho A Mano gallery

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OTHER EVENTS

We also enjoyed the other events of PRINT SANTA FE:


TOM HUCK

Tom Huck Artist Talk and Book Signing

Tom Huck talked and sold books at Black Rock Editions in Santa Fe on April 27, 2023:



Tom Huck talking about his latest print




Video snippet
of Tom Huck's talk








Tom Huck and Krrrl


Santa Fe Portfolio Exchange


The Santa Fe Portfolio Exchange was also on exhibit at Black Rock Editions:

Santa Fe Portfolio Exchange


Relief Printmaking Workshop


Krrrl took the relief printmaking workshop from Tim Pauszek on April 7th:

Tim Pauszek giving a relief printing workshop
at Artisan's Santa Fe

Krrrl also tried to hang some BUCKET PRINTS during the workshop, but there really was not a good wall to hang them from:

Four relief BUCKET PRINTS
during the print workshop



Enrique Flores 


Enrique Flores came up from Oaxaca to exhibit his prints at Hecho Gallery in Santa Fe, the opening was April 7th, 2023:

Enrique Flores exhibiting in Santa Fe
at Hecho Gallery


The next day, April 8th,
Enrique gave a talk at Hecho Gallery


Nexo Entre Raices


The "Nexo Entre Raices" print exhibition, organized by Marco Sanchez of El Paso, opened on April 21st at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

"Nexo Extre Raices"
exhibition in Albuquerque at the 
National Hispanic Cultural Center



YouTube tour
of the "Nexo Entre Raices" exhibition



MONOTHON Exhibition


The Monothon Exhibition was at the Santa Fe Community Gallery, April 27th to May 26th, 2023:

The MONTHON exhibition
at the Community Gallery in Santa Fe


Monoprint by Richard Nicholas



PRINTMAKING at the Children's Museum



Matt and Sharon of Iron Frog Press gave a print workshop for children at the Santa Fe Children's Museum on April 28, 2023.  They give these print workshops on location all the time -- Print Shop A Go Go.

Matt and Sharon of Iron Frog Press
at the Santa Fe Children's Museum


STAN BERNING


ART FAIR



Printmakers from all over the country sold their works at the Fistful of Prints Art Fair, April 28th - 30th, 2023, at CCA:



Dennis McNett held a mask making workshop for Print Santa Fe, and then they had a procession at the Container Gallery on Saturday, April 29th, 2023.  Raye Leith sent us these photos below (as your blogger was unable to attend):











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Guadalajara Laser Engraved Relief Prints

Last year we received a lot of prints from Mexico in the mail, including prints from MAPECO print studio in Uruapan, Michoacán.  However it can take months for prints to arrive in the mail.  Wouldn't it be nice to exchange and show prints a little more quickly?

So I asked Xavier Moreno of Guadalajara to send a print image to me in email.  Then I engraved it into linoleum with the laser cutter at Quelab in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  The result came out really nicely:

I laser engraved two linocut plates,
a positive and a negative

The negative version came out best, with the laser cutter engraving the lines into linoleum, which then came out as white in the print:

The negative version came out best



Laser cutter at work
(the positive version,
cutting outside the lines)


Video of the lasering of the linocut
at Quelab


Inking the positive version
(note how the brayer dips into the larger voids,
adding unwanted ink smudges)


Laser engraving the negative version


Printing the laser engraved linocuts
with a Tortilla Press at Quelab


Xavier Moreno and Alejandra Mares of Tres Gatos Press taught us how to print with a Tortilla Press when we visited them in Guadalajara in 2019:


Printing with a a Tortilla Press
in Guadalajara in 2019


We printed the positive version first, but the line work did not come out as strong as it might:


The line work did not come out so strong
on the first laser engraved positive version


The negative version on the laser cutter
where we engraved the lines into the linoleum


This negative version came out great!


The positive and negative linocut plates


Later that week we printed Xavier Moreno's linocut during the live printmaking event in Santa Fe on April 29th, at Hecho A Mano gallery at the top of Canyon Road:

Printing the laser engraved linocut
during the live printmaking event in Santa Fe


Now we can easily solicit images from anywhere on the globe, laser engrave and print them practically immediately.  A pop-up BUCKET EXHIBITION could happen within a week.  The prints probably won't be as nice as hand carved prints, but they could well introduce people at a pop-up exhibition to great Mexican and other printmakers far far away.
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