Albuquerque Spring

The momentum after the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, contributed to the print fever that hit Albuquerque in the Spring of 2017.  Below is a summary:

Read the whole review
by Wesley Pulkka,
May 7, 2017
of the "Prints by Southwest" exhibition

(direct link to Albuquerque Journal article)


PRINTS BY SOUTHWEST

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We are showing 83 prints at the "Prints by Southwest" exhibition, April 20 - June 2nd, at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Opening reception on April 20th

• More gallery pictures

View the gallery in 360 degrees
(view point changes every 30 seconds)

The core of this print show

was exhibited earlier, Feb/Mar, in El Paso

as the "Postre Prints" exhibition

OFF BROADWAY POP-UP PRINT SHOW

The night after the big opening, April 21st, we showed 19 more prints at Karsten Creightney's studio  in downtown Albuquerque, for the "Off Broadway Pop-up Print Show."

Oaxaca style opening with mezcal,

for the "Off Broadway Pop-up Print Show"

COLOR RELIEF PRINT WORKSHOP

by PAVEL ACEVEDO

Pavel Acevedo, of the Desert Triangle, conducted a color relief print workshop at Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop in Albuquerque, the weekend after the print openings, April 22 - 23.

Flyer for the workshop

The workshop was a lot of fun

THE CARVED LINE

AT THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM

The Albuquerque Museum put together a great print show -- "The Carved Line" -- with works from New Mexican relief artists, from both historical and contemporary printmakers.  From January 14th - April 16th, 2017.  Catalog available.

"The Carved Line"

Relief print show at the 

Albuquerque Museum

T.C. Cannon

"Artist in Studio"

1975

was carved by Japanese woodblock printers

Howard Cook

"Governor's Palace"

1927

woodcut

Willard Midgette

"Reclining Nude"

1966

woodcut

PRINT//MAKE SYMPOSIUM

at UNM

The University of New Mexico sponsored the "Print//Make Symposium" on Friday, April 28th:

LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS

Dr Suzanne Schadl brought out several portfolios from Mexican artists for display, in the Waters Room, in the Center for Southwest Research, at the Zimmerman Library of the University of New Mexico.

The Carpetas (print portfolios):

• "Oaxaca Collective (Carpeta Nacional de Estampa en Mexico)"
• "Por La Madre Tierra"
• "El Cuerpo Intervendio"
• "Karwinskii Effectus (Carpeta del Mezcal -- Oaxaca)"
• "La Autonomia es la Vida, la Sumision es la Muerte"
• Wirikuta
• Carpeta "20 Años de la UPICM-Peña  Morelos"

Note: much of the print collection can be found online at the University of New Mexico Digital collections.

Prints from the "Por La Madre Tierra" portfolio,

just one of the Mexican portfolios 

brought out for temporary display

Visitors enjoy the various Mexican print portfolios

displayed on tables 

in the Waters Room

The Oaxaca Collective Carpeta

was one of the portfolios on display

Dr Suzanne Schadl also took us to the vaults below

to show us more Latin American prints

Vault Archive

below the Zimmerman Library

at the University of New Mexico

PRINT//MAKE PRINT EXCHANGE

After the Latin American collections tour, we went to the OutPost Performance Space to see the exhibition of the "Print//Make::UNM Printmakers Exchange Portfolio."

Sneak preview of the UNM student print exchange

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:  Gabriel Aro, Richard Barnes, Noel Begay, Katelyn Bladel, Diana Cervantes, Kate Coucke, Jose Delgado, Emma Difani, Jamie Durham, Margaret Farrell, Jessie Furr, Jeremiah Heller, Chaney Howe, Kyle King, Cedar Kirwin, Jessica Marie Gross, Liz Melnyczuk, Hollis Moore, Amanda Morris, Mitchell Olson, Marcos Polac, Abigail Preston, Babak Shasiah, Ben Shoenberg, Kacie Erin Smith, Isaac Trujillo, Kelly Watson

(Eugene) Chaney Howe

"Prints"

reductive linocut

Kacie Erin Smith

"Muumuu Yingyang"

pochoir monotype and serigraphy

Katelyn Bladel

"Rogers, NM"

lithography"

TAMARIND INSTITUTE

Meghan Ferguson gave us a tour of Tamarind Institute, the Mecca of lithography, which was streamed live on Facebook.

Meghan Ferguson giving us the upstairs gallery tour

We also went downstairs 

to visit the working studios of Tamarind

Grinding the litho stones is an art.

as they have to be perfectly flat

Antique offset machine,

is still used occasionally a Tamarind

UNM PRINT DEMO

BY GRADUATE PRINT STUDENTS

The evening of April 28th, the graduate students gave a printmaking demo in the basement of the Art Annex building at the University of New Mexico:

Graduate student print demo

MEXTAPOZ

Last November 2016 (technically not spring), we had a  print show at Ace Barbershop in downtown Albuquerque -- "Mextapoz" -- showing serigraph masterpieces produced by Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City:

Scoring a print

at the Mextapoz show

YAYBIG PRINT EXCHANGE

Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop showed the YayBig Print Exchange during their first opening with the new owners in February/March 2017:

YayBig Print Exchange from the Southwest

showed at Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop

last February in Albuquerque

A visitor points to his preference

We previously showed the YayBig Print Exchange at Tathagata Coffee in Santa Fe, from October to November, 2016.

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for the Santa Fe showing

of the YayBig Print Exchange

YayBig Print Exchange

 at Tathagata Coffee 

in Santa Fe

508 ARTS

James Black (of the 111 Media Collective) is boosting prints by teaching a silk screening class at Warehouse 508 Arts in Albuquerque.

Meldon Willis pulling t-shirt masterpieces

at Warehouse 508 Arts

in Albuquerque

New Impressions: 

Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking

at the MoCNA

The MoCNA (Museum of Contemporary Native Arts) in downtown Santa Fe, has a printmaking exhibition -- "New Impressions: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking" -- from January 20 - June 15th 2017:

ARGOS STUDIO/GALLERY

The Argos Studio/Gallery in Santa Fe, had their annual incredible historical print show -- "The Art of the Print Cycle" -- from December 2nd 2016 - Jan 6th, 2017.  These selections from the collection of Dr Robert Bell, included masterpieces from Duer, Rembrandt, Goya, Hogarth, Dore, Kathe Kolwitz, Max Klinger, Otto Dix, Gustave Baumann, Eli Levin, and many more.  Article in Pasatiempo.

Wonderful print by Kathe Kollwitz (1897)

at the Argos Gallery in Santa Fe

APRIL 2016

One year ago, April 2016, was also a very active month, as we were showing prints from Portland to Houston, in addition to our big opening in El Paso.

April 2016

was a big print month for us also

Relief + Color Weekend Workshop by Pavel Acevedo

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Pavel Acevedo gave a relief print workshop at Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop in Albuquerque, April 22 - 23, 2017:

Group photo with Pavel,

missing one of eight

participants

The workshop was conducted at

Remarque/New Grounds

Print Workshop

in Albuquerque

Pavel Acevedo 

workshop flyer

Pavel's website

Pavel has a big following on Instagram

Pavel Acevedo showing off 

one of his large colored relief prints

Pavel contributed a print to the Oaxaca Collective (Carpeta Nacional de Estampa en Mexico), which was organized by printmaker Irving Herrera (which has been a big inspiration for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta):

Pavel Acevedo

showing and discussing

the Oaxaca Collective Carpeta

Later that week, the Oaxaca Collective Carpeta was featured at UNM (University of New Mexico), during one of the events of the Print//Make Symposium. 

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Pavel with printmaker Irving Herrera

A year earlier, Pavel was printing in El Paso, and gave a talk:

Pavel printing with Francisco Delgado

in El Paso,

April 2016

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Prints by Workshop Participants

Karl Hofmann

Elaine Soto

Juliana Kirwin

Kris Thacher

Karsten Creightney

Mary Sundstrom

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THE PROCESS

Because most people want color, Pavel Acevedo devised a way to add color to relief prints using a monoprint method.

"Transfer Print" -- The first print will be used to later transfer the image onto an acrylic plate.  Mostly we made this print on cheap newsprint, since this print is temporary.

Rolling Gamblin Portland Intense Black oil ink

onto a small square area on  a glass slab,

until it has the right sticky sizzle/cackle sound,

before applying to the linoleum surface

Getting a temporary "transfer" print from the linoleum sheet

Later, Pavel found it easier to use a 

Print Frog glass barren 
(order from Dallas), 

burnishing by hand,

to make the "transfer" print onto newsprint paper

The Print Frog

Pavel lays a thin piece of acrylic

on top of the fresh (not dried) "transfer" print,

and rolls that through the press

Pavel holds up

the thin acrylic sheet

after he transferred the image to it

with the press

Applying baby powder (talc) to the acrylic plate,

to dry the ink.

Rub in lightly with one's hands.

Pushing off the excess baby powder 

lightly with a cloth

(note the image is still on the acrylic plate)

Adding Color --  Pavel used Akua intaglio inks to roll colors onto the acrylic (monoprint) plate.  Cleans up with water or alcohol.  Oil inks work as well.

Used the Akua intaglio ink,

scooping it out of the jar with a spatula

Applying color ink with a small roller on the acrylic sheet

(the inked image is dried with baby powder,

and shows through while inking)

Finished acrylic plate

with just rolled red ink

(over "dried" talcum powdered image)

Going over the black image is ok,

since the overlapped red won't show in the final print

Monoprint First -- On good paper, Pavel laid an acrylic sheet the size of the paper (9 x 12 in), and then ran them both through the press, to transfer the image onto the acrylic plate.  Note again, he did not transfer the image directly from an inked lino block  to the acrylic sheet.

Printing the colored acrylic plate

on paper

Key Color Second -- Pavel places and registers the red monoprint over the linoleum block, inked with the black key color, and runs both through the press to create the final print.

The registration template,

is always a mystery to me

Pavel will flip the colored print,

and place it over the inked linoleum sheet,

and run it through the press

Viola!  A finished 2 color relief print masterpiece!

Two variations of colored prints,

next to the linoleum sheet

Satisfying color relief print!

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CLICK HERE for pictures of how the participants made their relief masterpieces!

UPDATE (August, 2017):

Kristin Thacter's print was spotted in the "Limited Edition" print show at the New Mexico Art League in Albuquerque (July 18 - August 19, 2017).  Review of the print show in the Albuquerque Journal:

Kristin Thacher

"Steller's Blue"

Linocut

Julianna Kirwin finished her print and showed it during her Open Studio in Albuquerque, August 12 and 13, 2017.

Julianna Kirwin 

"Garcia Lorca"