Desert Triangle Print Carpeta: 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.