Ambos Lados Print Tsunami -- International Print Exchange

The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange is underway, as 50 print editions have already come in before Thanksgiving -- and more than 50 print editions are expected before the extended final deadline of December 15th, 2018.  Many of the Desert Triangle artists are participating. The print tsunami has begun, with our next big print project!

Ambos Lados International Print Exchange

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The first wave of print deliveries

at the Horned Toad Prints studio in El Paso

AMBOS LADOS means BOTH SIDES

(referring to the border)

The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange is being run from both sides of the border -- by Manuel Guerra of the "Horned Toad Prints" studio in El Paso, and by "Taller Grafica Libre" in Zaachila, Oaxaca, run by Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas.

This print exchange asked for an edition of 12 prints, on 8 x 8 inch paper.  Most participants are from the US and Mexico, though editions from Australia, Canada, Ireland and Cuba have been delivered.

Takach Press in Albuquerque, 

cutting 8 x8 inch paper for this print exchange

It all started after exhibiting the Horned Toad II Print Exchange last year (2017) in Oaxaca and Monterrey, Mexico.  Many artists in Oaxaca participated in that print exchange, and were anxious to do something bigger.  That was met by enthusiasm from the US side of the border, and thus this international print exchange was born.

HORNED TOAD II PRINT EXCHANGE

EXHIBITION IN OAXACA 2017

Manuel Guerra (tallest) of Horned Toad Prints in El Paso,

flanked by Beatriz Rivas (yellow) and Adrian Aguirre (blue)

of Taller Grafica Libre of Zaachila, Oaxaca --

at the Horned Toad II Print Exchange exhibition in Oaxaca 2017

AMBOS LADOS BEGINS!

Oaxaca

Manuel Guerra of  El Paso, went down to work with the young master printmakers of Taller Grafica Libre of Zaachila, Oaxaca  -- Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas -- in the summer of 2018.

Adrian Aguirre (right) 

working with Manuel Guerra

in Taller Grafica Libre of Zaachila

Beatriz Rivas runs the Taller Grafica Libre

with Adrian Aguirre

Talí preparando su placa 

para el tercer intercambio de gráfica

There are many small print studios in Oaxaca that are participating in the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange:

• Taller Grafica Libre
• Taller La Burburja
• Grafica Ojo Tres
• Taller de Grafica Enrique Flores
• Taller King Kong (Tlacolulokos)
• Taller Santaller
• Taller El Ajolote (Mexico City)
• 3 Gatos Press (Leon, Guanajato)

Many small print collectives/studios,

like Taller La Burbuja ,

submitted are submitting print editions

Angelica Bracho 

working at Taller Grafica Libre in Zaachila  --

Angelica runs Taller La Catrina in Monterrey, Mexico

MONTERREY

Angelica Bracho in Taller La Catrina in Monterrey,

after hanging the Horned Toad II Print Exchange --

many artists from this Monterrey studio are participating

URUAPAN, 

MICHOACAN

MAPECO of Uruapan, Michoacan,

submitted editions

PUEBLA

Roberto Rodriguez,

and 4 other printmakers from Puebla, Mexico,

submitted editions

GUADALAJARA

Manuel Guerra with master printer José Gutiérrez

of Taller De Gráfica José Gutiérrez

EL PASO

Manuel Guerra in his Horned Toad Prints studio in El Paso,

flanked by Federico Villalba and Francisco Delgado

Horned Toad Prints World Headquarters,

El Paso, Texas

SANTA FE

Eli Levin co-founded the 

Santa Fe Etching Club,

and is participating in Ambos Lados

Inside Argos Studio/Gallery 

where the Santa Fe Etching Club meets today

Dr Robert Bell

giving a talk in 2017,

of the exhibition of his print collection at Argos,

featuring Duer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Gaughin,

Käthe Kollwitz, Felicien Rops, Max Klinger,

and prints by many more famous artists

ALBUQUERQUE

Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop

in Albuquerque

Henry Morales

in his personal studio in Albuquerque

TUCSON

Gonzalo Espinosa and David Cardenas,

standing in front of the press

at Raices Taller in Tucson

CUBA

Two editions arrived from Havana!

Tanya Rich made her edition in Havana,

in the studio of Octavio Irving

Octavio Irving of Havana 

is participating in Ambos Lados

INSTAGRAM

of participants

Many printmakers have Instagram accounts with pictures of their work:

Orlando Almanza

of Cuba

Carnegie Muir

of Australia

Raul Monarrez

of El Paso

#ambosladosinternationalprintexchange -- our hashtag mysteriously appeared on Instagram.

Manuel Guerra cooking

in his studio in El Paso

for all of Instagram to see

¡SALUD!

Highlights of the Desert Triangle Adventure

tinyurl.com/TriHigh

The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta has had a pretty exciting ride. These are some of the highlights (but not all) of the adventure so far, including print projects that are related to the Desert Triangle somehow, in no particular order:

• INDEX of all prints 
• SUMMARY of all Desert Triangle exhibitions (so far)
• CATALOG  online (ISSUU)

Print explosion of April 2016

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

• Juan Sandoval Collection (#3)
• El Paso Museum of Art (#5)
• University of Arizona Museum of Art (#7)
• El Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita, in Pátzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico
• Mexic-Arte Museum (#11)
• Tucson Museum of Art (#15)
• University of Texas at San Antonio, Library Special Collections (#17)

TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART

Currently Ruben Urrea Moreno's print

is on display at the Tucson Museum of Art

(October 2018)

BETO O'ROURKE

Congressman Beto O'Rourke receives Cimi Alvardo's print --

currently Beto O'Rourke is running for senate

against Senator Ted Cruz, 

in a highly publicized national campaign (2018)

EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART

We had a great exhibition

at the El Paso Museum of Art

in 2016

Reception at the El Paso Museum of Art,

April 2016

AUGMENT EL PASO 

Augment El Paso

enhanced 3 of the Desert Triangle prints

with "Augmented Reality"

DRIVE BY PRESS 

SKATEBOARD PRINTING

At our Delray Arts Warehouse,near Miami,

during the opening on July 6, 2018,

Joseph Velasquez from Drive By Press,

did skateboard printing at the opening

REOPENING OF SAN JACINTO PLAZA

DOWNTOWN EL PASO

Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City

did live silk screen printing

and handed out free posters

during the re-opening of San Jacinto Plaza in downtown El Paso

on April 16, 2016

AUSTIN

We were really happy

to exhibit at the Mexic-Arte Museum

in downtown Austin in early 2018

MEXIC-ARTE MURAL

Los Dos from El Paso,

and Jellyfish Colectivo from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,

did a collaborative mural the day after the opening,

on the side of the Mexic-Arte Museum  --

and Augment El Paso augmented the mural before SXSW 2018,

and Taller 75 Grados made an augmented print of the mural

The mural on social media:

• #augmentedmural
• #elmeromuro

MODERN ART BLITZ

Pavel Acevedo's Desert Triangle print

was featured in his Los Angles interview

on "Modern Art Blitz" with Mat Gleson (episode 20)

• Another of Pavel's prints was featured on the Tonight Show

TALLER 75 GRADOS POP-UP

Most of the Desert Triangle prints

were shown for the 32nd Anniversary of Taller 75 Grados

in Mexico City, on October 30, 2015

CHA!

We were fortunate to show at Guru Gallery in Mexico City,

owned by Cha!, a famous Mexican rock star

from the bands Fobia and Moderatto,

during the month of November 2015

LA CEIBA GRÁFICA
VERACRUZ

Manuel Guerra made his Desert Triangle lithograph

at La Ceiba Grafica, in Coatepec, Veracruz,

where they draw on locally quarried marble,

and make all their own materials for lithography  --

Per Anderson (pictured) is one of the directors of the complex

• Francisco Delgado also printed at La Ceiba Grafica

CHICAGO

Hoofprint Workshop in Chicago,

is as far north as we have exhibited --

Thank you Gabe Hoare and Liz Born

HOUSTON

We brought the Desert Triangle to East Texas,

for the "It Came from the Bayou" Print Fair in 2016

• We also went to the "It Came from the Bayou" Print Fair in 2018

SGCI PORTLAND

We showed the Desert Triangle prints 

at the big SGCI 2016 print conference in Portland, 

PÁTZCUARO

One of the first Desert Triangle exhibitions

was in Patzcuaro, Mexico,

arranged by Martin Quintanilla 

in September 2015

• We also showed the Desert Triangle in Paztcuaro in March, 2016

PRINTS BY SOUTHWEST

ALBUQUERQUE

We showed 83 prints at the South Broadway Cultural Center

in Albuquerque,  opening in April, 2017

POSTRE PRINTS

EL PASO

Miss Print showed up to the opening of the

"Postre Prints" exhibition at the Purple Gallery,

in El Paso, February 23, 2017  --

of prints done after the Desert Triangle Carpeta,

curated by Erica Marin

Steampunkers also showed up to the

Postre Print exhibition

PUEBLA

We had a great exhibition in Puebla, Mexico

in May, 2017

ARTE EN VIVO

Proper Printshop 

pulled serigraphs of 52 local artists

at live events in El Paso in 2016  --

and presented the portfolio 

to the El Paso Museum of Art in 2017

RIVERSIDE

Showing at the Pain Sugar Gallery in Riverside, California,

June and August, 2017 --

360 degree view of the gallery

FLATBED PRESS

Francisco Delgado created a masterpiece in lithography

at Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas,

January 2017

HAVANA

While exhibiting the Desert Triangle near Miami,

we visited the printmakers in Havana, Cuba --

specifically Octavio Irving and Orlando Almanza,

who then both submitted print editions to our

Ambos Lados International Print Exchange

CHALK THE BLOCK

EL PASO

We showed just Mexican prints at the El Paso Museum of Art,

during Chalk the Block 2017

Before the Desert Triangle,

we brought prints in from Tucson,

to show at the Chalk the Block festival in El Paso 2013,

having our first major print exhibition at the El Camino Hotel

The next year -- 2014 -- we showed both

the Horned Toad and the YayBig print exchanges together,

at Chalk the Block arts festival in El Paso --

and decided to combine forces to create the

Desert Triangle Print Carpeta for the following year

CIUDAD JUAREZ 

In January 2016,

we exhibited both the Horned Toad and the YayBig Print Exchanges,

at the Juarez Contemporary Gallery,

in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

HI-FRUCTOSE AD

We advertised the El Paso Museum exhibition

in Hi-Fructose Magazine,

Volume 39, page 21

KTEP INTERVIEW

Marina Monsisvais (right) from KTEP radio,

interviewed us about the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

on January 23, 2016 -- pictured are also

(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

FUSION MAGAZINE

The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

was featured in an article in Fusion Magazine #88,

of El Paso, Marfa, and Chihuahua City,

pages 16 and 17

• Fusion Magazine also did an article on Taller 75 Grados, #90 page 40

CONTROVERSY

This opinion piece in the El Paso Times,

by Alberto Rivas, April 18, 2016,

opened up a controversy

about the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition

• The controversy also surfaced on KVIA TV in El Paso, on April 19, 2016

OAXACA 

Shortly after the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta was born,

we went to Oaxaca, Mexico in 2014,

the Mecca of young printmakers --

and were impressed with the work down there --

eventually leading to a substantial interaction with Oaxaca

TALLER GRÁFICA LIBRE
ZAACHILLA

In Oaxaca we met Beti and Adrian 

of Taller Grafica Libre -- 

later they moved the studio to Zaachila, Oaxaca,

and Toru Sugita came to print there in 2016/2017

CATALOG

Catalog available on Lulu

CLICK IMAGE TO READ

Introduction to the catalog (page 2 - 3)

written by Patrick Shaw Cable,

Senior Curator at the El Paso Museum of Art (2016)

View catalog online for free at ISSUU

AMBOS LADOS 

INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXCHANGE

The Desert Triangle has lead to the current project-in-progress --

the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange,

organized on both sides of the border --

by Manuel Guerra of El Paso,

and Taller Grafica Libre of Oaxaca

Maestro Arturo Negrete of Taller 75 Grados ,

mimics the serigraph of Federico Villalba

(which he printed in Mexico City)

at the El Paso Museum of Art reception