Nidia Rosales Moreno arranges the artist-in-residency program at Taller Grafica Libre, and also runs the Espacio Centro in Oaxaca, where Toru had an exhibition and gave a talk on December 29th, 2016. Toru and his family stayed at Nidia's house.
Toru working in Taller Grafica Libre
Beatriz Rivas, Adrián Aguirre, and Toru Sugita,
with a fresh print
-- IN DEPTH
In July of 2015, Francisco Delgado came to Taller Grafica Libre, to make his relief print for the Desert Triangle. At that time the studio was located in the city of Oaxaca.
Toru Sugita
standing in front of his exhibition
Toru Sugita, Maestro Shinzaburo Takeda,
Misayo Tsutsui and Fumiyo Yoshikawa (artist and Toru's wife)
Toru and Nidia Rosales Moreno
Toru visited many print galleries in Oaxaca,
such at Gabinete Grafico,
run by Irving Herrera
We talked Toru into printing in Oaxaca when we met him at the SGCI print conference in Portland, in March/April of 2016. Krrrl first met Toru at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, back in the 1990s.
Toru is showing the prints he made in Oaxaca:
Toru talks about his Oaxaca prints,
and other print adventures,
at Diablo Valley College in California,
during his 2016 sabbatical,
March 14, 2017
Toru's Oaxaca prints were chosen
at the Isabelle Percy West Gallery,
California College of the Arts,
May 18th - June 1st 2017
THE BEST GALLERY IS IN THE STREET
This is so true. There were many great wheat paste prints in the streets of Oaxaca.
Not to mention the murals in Oaxaca:
Mural outside of Taller Siqueiros
Mural by Dr Lakra
Perhaps even more incredible were the murals in Zaachila, in a pueblo outside of Oaxaca, where Taller Grafica Libre is now located!
Leopoldo Mendez,
at the museum of
the Templo Santo Domingo
at the museum of
the Templo Santo Domingo
By Leopoldo Mendez
By Leopoldo Mendez
By Leopoldo Mendez
Prints by the French publishing house Le Dernier Cri,
showing at IAGO in Oaxaca
Nidia took Krrrl to Tlacolula outside of Oaxaca, to see the Tlacolulokos artist collective. They have painted in the US, and will come to Los Angels in April to paint inside the main library.
Ivan Bautista and Edith Chavez
in their gallery Burro Press
in Oaxaca
Misayo Tsutsui, Venancio Velasco, Emilio Gomez,
Alberto Cruz, Edith Chavez, Ivan Bautista
in Burro Press
We also visited La Chicharra studio in Oaxaca, run by Alan Altamirano (aka Kabrito).
Alan Altamarino and Ivan Bautista
roll up the prints that Krrrl bought,
to be sent FedEx
Kutztown printmaking professor Kevin McCloskey
and his wife cut a rosca on January 6th
at Taller La Chicarra in Oaxaca,
to share with the students they brought down there
OTHER MEXICAN PRINTMAKERS
Later Krrrl took the long way home, traveling through Mexico to meet other great Mexican printmakers:
Mexico City
At Taller 75 Grados, Maestro Arturo Negrete pulled a large serigraph of artist Jose Quintero's work.
Maestro Arturo Negrete
and artist Jose Quintero
Estudio Zoveck in Mexico City, specializes in waterless lithography:
Sonia Romero and Julio Carrasco,
form the studio Zoveck
Patzcuaro, Michoacan
Printmaker extraordinaire Artemio Rodriguez
in his studio in Patzcuaro
Morelia, Michoacan
in his private printmaking studio
Oaxaca and Mexico have really strong printmakers. Below, Gabriel Mendoza Gagnier, director of La Mano Magica Gallery in Oaxaca, pulls out a Desert Triangle print from the bin, by Los Dos.
Sad note -- In Oaxaca we learned that artist Michael Roman had died in San Francisco while Toru was creating his print, the day after Christmas. Michael pilgrimaged to La Mano Magica gallery in Oaxaca almost every year. He silk screened in the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, where both Toru and Krrrl met him.
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