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Our first exhibition of the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints is at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. THE OPENING was on Friday, December 13th, 5 - 8 PM. The exhibition runs until January 25th, 2025 -- open on Friday and Saturdays, 10 AM to 6 PM:
Our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Exhibition is piggybacking on Remarque's 12th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition:
The EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project is based on a shape that will tessellate infinitely -- without ever creating a regular pattern. This particular "hat" shape is called an "aperiodic monotile," and it was only recently discovered in late 2022 by DAVID SMITH. Since last May (2024) we have been laser cutting this "hat" shape from linoleum -- and asking artists to carve and send back their linocut tiles. Then we piece the tiles together to make larger collaborative tessellation prints, not unlike in the Surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse.
The impulse to make collaborative prints came from the studio of Henry Morales. First, after Virgil Velasco suggested making small two-person prints. Then the momentum continued when Henry, Virgil and Ellie Weadock collaborated to carve a large plate (28" x 48"), for Lyell Castonguay of BIG INK to print when came to Albuquerque last April. This collaboration fever continues with the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project, as linocuts come in from all over the Southwest to be printed together, just to see what happens.
While we are collecting tessellation linocuts in ALBUQUERQUE -- Manuel Guerra is collecting another set in EL PASO -- and Joe Marshall has begun collecting tessellation tiles in TUCSON. We have even sent a stack of tessellation tiles to Tres Gatos Press in Guadalajara.
The impulse to make collaborative prints came from the studio of Henry Morales. First, after Virgil Velasco suggested making small two-person prints. Then the momentum continued when Henry, Virgil and Ellie Weadock collaborated to carve a large plate (28" x 48"), for Lyell Castonguay of BIG INK to print when came to Albuquerque last April. This collaboration fever continues with the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project, as linocuts come in from all over the Southwest to be printed together, just to see what happens.
While we are collecting tessellation linocuts in ALBUQUERQUE -- Manuel Guerra is collecting another set in EL PASO -- and Joe Marshall has begun collecting tessellation tiles in TUCSON. We have even sent a stack of tessellation tiles to Tres Gatos Press in Guadalajara.
ARTIST CREDITS
** EAST WALL **
Tessellation prints hanging on the East Wall
SANTA FE
- Ken Romig (Albuquerque)
- Kevin Burke (Albuquerque)
- Greta Young (Santa Fe)
- Mary Sundstrom (Albuquerque)
- Daniel Allen (Albuquerque)
- Martin Terry (Albuquerque)
- Jeanette Cook (Albuquerque)
NEW MEXICO
- E Oscar Maynard (Silver City, NM)
- Juan Wijngaard (Corrales, NM)
- Henry Morales (Albuquerque)
- Virgil Velasco (Albuquerque)
- Lyell Castonguay (Maine)
- Gabriele Teich (Las Cruces)
- Jessi Cross (Santa Fe)
- Martin Terry (Albuquerque)
SILVER CITY
- Kathe Noe (Albuquerque)
- E Oscar Maynard (Silver City, NM)
- John Tollett (Santa Fe)
- Henry Morales (Albuquerque)
- Nancy Camacho (Las Vegas, NM)
- Greta Young (Santa Fe)
EL PASO
- Raul Monarrez (El Paso)
- Julie Sola (Las Vegas, NM)
- Derrick Caulfield (El Paso)
- Mike Kimball (Santa Fe)
- Virgil Velasco (Albuquerque)
- Adriana Zavala (El Paso)
- Gummi Thordarson (El Paso)
EL PASO
- Christin Apodaca (El Paso)
- David "Meat Meat" Bravo (Juarez)
- Marco Sanchez (El Paso)
- Jorge "Yorch" Perez (Juarez)
- Joe Marshall (Tucson)
- Raul Monarrez (El Paso)
- Louie Salazar (El Paso)
- Nabil Gonzalez (El Paso)
- Susan "Skuishy" Gonzalez (El Paso)
SILVER CITY
- Julie Sola (Las Vegas, NM)
- Barbara Endicott (Albuquerque)
- Amy Maestas (Albuquerque)
- Daniel Allen (Albuquerque)
- Karl Whitaker (Albuquerque)
- Julianna Kirwin (Albuquerque)
** SOUTH WALL **
Tessellation prints hanging on the South Wall
EL PASO
- Gummi Thordarson (El Paso)
- Karl Whitaker (Albuquerque)
- Ken Romig (Albuquerque)
- Raul Monarrez (El Paso)
- Mary Sundstrom (Albuquerque)
- Adriana Zavala (El Paso)
- Derrick Caulfield (El Paso)
ALBUQUERQUE
- Jeanette Cook (Albuquerque)
- Kathe Noe (Albuquerque)
- Nancy Magnussom (Albuquerque)
- Casandra Encinias (Albuquerque)
- Raul Monarrez (El Paso)
- Derrick Cauldfield (El Paso)
- Henry Morales (Albuquerque)
- Adriana Zavala (El Paso)
- Virgil Velasco (Albuquerque)
- Ellie Weadock (Albuquerque)
- Julie Sola (Las Vegas, NM)
- Polypad helped me create the "hat" layouts for the collaborative prints
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