Monday, December 22, 2025

Desert Triangle Revisited in 2025

The Desert Triangle -- TUCSON, ALBUQUERQUE, EL PASO -- had a reunion in 2025, sorta.  Those cities got together again to show in Juarez, Mexico and Silver City, New Mexico:


JUAREZ, MEXICO

163 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints, from Tucson, Albuquerque and El Paso, were a prominent part of the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition at the University of Juarez in Mexico -- from August 22 to November 13th, 2025:

We had a great print opening in Juarez, Mexico
on August 22, 2025


IMPORTANT PEOPLE -- TUNEL GRAFICO
JORGE "YORCH" PEREZ was part of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta,
and stands next to his print at the Tunel Grafico exhibition


TUCSON Tessellations -- TUNEL GRAFICO
39 EXQUISTE TESSELLATION Prints from Tucson


ALBUQUERQUE Tessellations -- TUNEL GRAFICO
69 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints from Albuquerque


EL PASO Tessellations -- TUNEL GRAFICO
55 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints from El Paso


Quick Prints -- TUNEL GRAFICO
We also had a printmaking workshop
during the opening on August 22, 2025



SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2025
SILVER CITY, NEW MEXICO


During the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA  in Silver City, New Mexico, we pushed EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints from TUCSON, ALBUQUERQUE and EL PASO on October 10th - 13th, 2025:


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION

We showed collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints from Albuquerque and El Paso at Power & Light Press:

EXHIBITION EXQUISITE TESSELLATION -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025
We exhibited EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints
from Albuquerque and El Paso
(Tucson arrived too late to exhibit)


STEAMROLLER PRINTS

We made big STEAMROLLER collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints from TUCSON, ALBUQUERQUE and EL PASO -- and included linocuts from TAOS, LAS CRUCES, and LAS VEGAS, New Mexico:

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Steamroller Prints


TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER PRINTS -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025
Big linocuts from Taos, El Paso, Albuquerque
Las Cruces and Albuquerque
(plus little linocuts from El Paso and Albuquerque)


TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER PRINTS -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025
Four from Albuquerque, two from Tucson, one from Las Vegas, New Mexico


TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER PRINTS -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025
Taos, El Paso, Las Cruces, Albuquerque, Tucson


TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER PRINTS -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025
Las Vegas, NM, two from Albuquerque, two from Tucson


TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER PRINTS -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025
Transporting the steamroller tessellation prints


AFTER-PARTY WORKSHOP 

We also made small collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints during the after-party at the Whiskey Creek Zocalo bar, with linocuts from the Tucson, Albuquerque and El Paso collections:

The collaborative tessellation prints from the after-party


COLLABORATION TESSELLATIONS at the Whiskey Creek Zocalo --
 Southwest Print Fiesta
JOE MARSHALL from Tucson (left) of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta
hand burnishing prints


COLLABORATION TESSELLATIONS at the Whiskey Creek Zocalo --
 Southwest Print Fiesta
CHRIS BARDEY from Las Cruces (right) of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta,
after Joe passed the baren

COLLABORATION TESSELLATIONS at the Whiskey Creek Zocalo --
 Southwest Print Fiesta
MANUEL GUERRA (lifting paper) from El Paso, of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta


Moreover 2025 marks 10 YEARS since the first exhibitions of the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA


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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project

In 2024 we started the EXQUSITE TESSELLATION Print project -- and have been collecting linocuts from Albuquerque, El Paso and Tucson.  This sorta sounds like a sequel to the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta:


Individual tessellation tiles
growing into large tessellation prints


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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

SUMMARY -- Exhibition at the University of Arizona Art Museum

We were honored and delighted that the University of Arizona Art Museum exhibited the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta in Tucson.  The exhibit runs from June 10th, 2023 to December 21st, 2023.

Olivia Miller, the Director
of the University of Arizona Art Museum,
stands next to the Desert Triangle legend


The monitor in the lobby
of the University of Arizona Art Museum


Sophie Briley curated the Desert Triangle exhibition, and wrote the legend in the gallery, as well as the side panels next to the prints:

Sophie Briley curated
the Desert Triangle exhibition


The reception was on October 26th, 2023:

The reception warming up
at the University of Arizona Art Museum


LIVE PRINTMAKING -- on a Tortilla Press, during the reception:

(L to R) Chelsea Farrar (curator), Olivia Miller (museum director)
Manuel Guerra and Karl Whitaker holding the pink bucket,
Joe Marshall and Linda Marie Garcia


Chelsea Farrar, the Curator of Community Engagement,
gets the best out of printmakers Manuel Guerra and Joe Marshall
by giving them a free drink ticket


Six from Tucson, Albuquerque and El Paso,
showed up for the reception --
Manuel Guerra, Joe Marshall, Federico Villalba, 
Mykl Wells, Ruben Urrea Moreno, Karl Whitaker


The main reception was for the exhibition in the large gallery -- PULSE: Weavings and Paintings by Marlow Katoney:

The main reception was for the exhibition in the large gallery --
PULSE: Weavings and Paintings by Marlow Katoney




BLOG POSTS
about the exhibition
at the University of Arizona


Click on the photos to go to the blog post about that topic:

We were ecstatic
to get written up in Hyperallergic


We had a good reception on October 26, 2023
at the University of Arizona Art Museum


During the reception on October 24, 2023
we printed live on a Tortilla Press


Sophie Briley wrote the description panels
on the side of 15 of the Desert Triangle prints


The gallery
at the University of Arizona Art Museum


INSTAGRAM Posts

From the University of Arizona Art Museum:

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During the reception we met Alejandro Macias, the new painting professor at the University of Arizona:

Manuel Guerra (l), printmaking professor at UTEP,
standing in front of his print,
with Alejandro Macias, painting professor 
at the University of Arizona


We left a bucket and linoleum
for Alejandro Macias


Painting by Alejandro Macias
currently hanging in the gallery
of the University of Arizona Art Museum


We met Alejandro Macias back in 2015, when we showed two Desert Triangle prints, in the art museum of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Texas:

Alejandro Macias in Brownsville, Texas,
standing next to Cimi's Desert Triangle print
of the Mexico/US bridge in El Paso


The print studio
at the University of Arizona


UofA students
reflecting on the meaning of Art
in the hallway


Aerial view of the art museum
at the University of Arizona


Street view of the art museum
at the University of Arizona




The main gate to the University of Arizona in Tucson,
leading to the main road, lined with palm trees


Manuel Guerra in Tucson,
standing in front of where the 
Sculpture Resource Center used to be --
where the Desert Triangle started


The Desert Triangle
in other venues

We saw Cristina Cardenas' print hanging in the Tucson Art Museum:
  • Oliva Miller, director of the University of Arizona Art Museum
  • Chelsea Farrar, director of Community Engagement at the University of Arizona Art Museum
  • Sophie Briley, the curator for the "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta" exhibition
  • Albert Chamillard, Exhibition Specialist for the University of Arizona Art Museum
  • Linda Marie Garcia, student intern who helped us with live Tortilla Printing
  • Federico Villalba, who took all the best photos of the gallery and the reception


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