Wednesday, December 21, 2016

2016 in Review

The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta had a good year in 2016!




Thank you Miguel Ibarra









AT EACH POINT OF THE TRIANGLE


We exhibited in galleries at all 3 points of the triangle -- starting off in January with an exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art; and then showed at  the Contreras Gallery in Tucson (Feb); and the Matrix Fine Art Gallery in Albuquerque (July).  Plus we had exhibitions at over 9 venues beyond that.




EL PASO



TUCSON




ALBUQUERQUE






MEDIA

THE CATALOG







EL PASO





Fusion Magazine #88
has an article about the
Desert Triangle Print Carpeta
on pages 16 and 17
(free in El Paso, Juarez, Ciudad Chihuhua, and Marfa)





(L to R) Dr Patrick Shaw Cable, Senior Curator at the El Paso Museum of Art,
Manuel Guerra, Lecturer in the printmaking department at UTEP,
Marina Monsisvais, KTEP radio host





Full page ad in the Zocalo Magazine,
issue 71, February 2016,
page 12



Article in the Zocalo Magazine,
page 8
(read text here)



Poster included our opening,
for the First Saturday Artwalk
Februrary 6th, from 6 - 9 PM





The Loft Cinema in Tucson projected our ads on the big screen before their movies in February (2 during the first half of February, the other 2 during the second half).












Also we are an underwriter sponsor of KXCI, which means that we are running 20 ads from February 5 -9 on that radio station:



Support for KXCI is provided the "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta," on view in February at the Contreras Gallery, 110 East 6th Street. 30 printmakers from Tucson, Albuquerque, and El Paso, including works by Cristina Cardenas, Martin Quintanilla, Mark Christian, and many more. Opening reception on February, 6th in the evening during the First Saturday Artwalk. More at DesertTriangle.com.




An article about the 
came out in the local free newspaper, 
the Weekly Alibi (Volume 25, Issue 28, July 14-20 2016)



We advertised in THE Magazine of Santa Fe,
page 38









 We also exhibited outside the Desert Triangle, by first having a few exhibitions in Mexico in 2015, before showing at various venues in the US in 2016.


MEXICO 2015


PATZCUARO



MEXICO CITY



OAXACA



MEXICO CITY



 EXHIBITIONS 2016



PORTLAND



HOUSTON



MEXICO CITY



CHICAGO



SILVER CITY, NM



PARTIAL SHOWS


We also had partial shows, featuring the prints from from one point of the triangle, in venues related to that point:


TUCSON



EL PASO in AUSTIN



ALBUQUERQUE



Plus our custom boxed portfolio carpeta set found its way into 7 collections.





The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta is part of the following collections:



PERIPHERAL PRINT ACTIVITY

There was a lot of peripheral activity happened around the Desert Triangle.




We were extremely fortunate to work with Augment El Paso, as David Figueroa and Robert Castaneda "augmented" 3 of our prints, when seen through the lens of an iPhone.  That dazzled viewers and pushed prints into the 21st century.  Again, thank you very much David and Robert!








HENRY BUILDS HIS PRESS
Albuquerque


Henry Morales built his own large press, to make his Desert Triangle print edition.


(and used skateboard wheels to roll the bed)


El Paso/Riverside


Deborah Cool-Flowers drove her etching press from El Paso, Texas, to Riverside, California to deliver it to Pavel Acevedo.  Pavel then made his Desert Triangle edition on this press.




ART en VIVO
El Paso


Proper Printshop of El Paso put on weekly live printing events on Thursday nights through 2016 -- Art en Vivo -- and produced a portfolio of 52 prints





Portland, Oregon

Because of the Desert Triangle carpeta, we participated in the big SGCI print conference in Portland, March 30 -- April 2, 2016.





at the El Paso Museum of Art


Cynthia Evans gave relief print demonstrations for Spark Saturdays at the El Paso Museum of Art -- 
April 9th, 2016 (with Marcus Robiason), and May 14th (with Alexis Ruiz).





downtown El Paso


Arturo Negrete from Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City, did live silk screening during the re-opening of San Jacinto Plaza in downtown El Paso -- April 16, 2016 --  giving away the prints to the public for free: 








Modern Art Blitz
Pavel Acevedo interview, Los Angeles




El Paso


Manuel Guerra announced his Horned Toad Print Exchange II, due 2017.  It might be said that all this print fever started when Manuel Guerra was rounding us up for print exchanges as far back as 2013.  In Tucson we copied the format of the first Horned Toad Print Exchange to make the YayBig Print Exchange in 2014.  Later many of us participated in the Print Zero Print Exchange #9 of Seattle, after going to the SGCI 2016 print conference in Portland.






TUCSON PRINT MEET-UP

Marcus Robiason has been holding print meet-ups on Tuesday nights at the Pleasure World studio and gallery space, in downtown Tucson.  They are printing relief and drypoint prints on a Baby Press.

working on the Baby Press
in Marcus' studio


Glenn Buack created this drypoint masterpiece
by scratching into acrylic plastic,
at the Tucson Print Meet-up



Tucson


Tanline printmaking studio of Tucson opened a retail outlet in September, on 4th Avenue -- Tiny Town -- (between downtown and the University of Arizona) to sell print related merchandise (The Tucson Community Print Shop, inside of Tanline, produced 4 of our Desert Triangle print editions).






The printmaking studios have always been as much a part of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta as the prints themselves.



PROPER PRINTSHOP
Art en Vivo
El Paso


Proper Printshop in El Paso has been doing live silk screening events every Thursday night in 2016 -- Art en Vivo -- creating 52 print editions of 12 x 18 inches.  Such as on September 1st, and December 1st.

New Grounds Print Workshop
Albuquerque

Regina Held sold New Grounds Print Workshop in Albuquerque to 4 new owners, to continue the tradition of quality.




TUCSON COMMUNITY PRINT SHOP
Tucson



The Tucson Community Print Shop has moved to a different location in South Tucson, having been absorbed by Tanline Printing, both run by Jeik and Amanda.  Along with Ellen and Axel, they also opened a retail store on 4th Avenue  -- Tiny Town -- to sell prints.


The new Tanline/Tucson Community Print Shop
in South Tucson,
with mural by Igloo



MARTIN QUINTANILLA 
Tucson

In September, Martin Quintanilla received a large press from Gatorno, made in Oaxaca, Mexico.





LA CEIBA GRÁFICA
Veracruz

Manuel Guerra made his Desert Triangle print edition at La Ceiba Gráfica in Veracruz, Mexico.  



The next year (summer 2016) we sent Francisco Delgado to La Ceiba Gráfica to make a couple of lithography editions.

"American Graffiti II"
Lithography print by Francisco Delgado


We are sending Francisco Delgado to Flatbed Press in Austin in January 2017, to make an edition there.



TALLER GRÁFICA LIBRE
Oaxaca

Francisco Delgado made his Desert Triangle print at Taller Gráfica Libre in Oaxaca.

Adrián Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas
in Oaxaca




Toru Sugita is now creating a print edition at Taller Gráfica Libre in Oaxaca.  We met Toru at the SGCI print conference in Portland last March.  He used to figure draw with Krrrl at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco in the 1990's.






TALLER 75 GRADOS
Mexico City

Arturo Negrete is now using a new positive film printing machine, to make "chulada" print editions even more efficiently!  Taller 75 Grados is a force of nature that continues to push serigraphy, dazzle, and exceed expectations.







RELATED EXHIBITIONS

BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
YayBig Southwest Collection
November 2015



CIUDAD JUÁREZ, MEXICO
YayBig Print Exchange
January - March 2016



LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO
PRINT, PRINTED, PRINTING Conference
February 13 - March 20, 2016



EL PASO
DESSERT TRIANGLE
May 19 - June 3







ALBUQUERQUE
MEXTAPOZ
November, 2016




Print shows coming up:




Rudy Flores' 
on view in January 2017



The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta is not finished.  We have an exhibition scheduled at Mexic-Arte in Austin for April, 2018.  We still have aspirations for showing the carpeta overseas.  We expect and encourage other printmaking surges in the Southwest, and look forward to seeing what happens in the upcoming years.

Who knows, maybe we should be showing prints at Art Basel in Miami; or the Satellite Art show and/or the Underground Truck  U O T R A S show, going on at the same time in Miami.  Tanya Rich visited Art Basel Miami this year (2016).






Looking ahead:

Print Challenge:  I am imagining smaller exhibitions between cities.  If Albuquerque produced 5 prints, and El Paso produced 5 prints -- that could turn out to be a nice exhibition of 10 prints, shown at coffee houses or pop-ups in both cities.  

Also I can imagine an Etsy print show.  There is a lot of good, reasonable priced prints on Etsy.  This is the 21st century, after all.