Thursday, June 7, 2018

Riverside California Opening

Just outside of Los Angeles, the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta opens at Pain Sugar Gallery in Riverside, California, from 6 - 10 PM.

This is part of the First Thursday Riverside Artwalk.




360° YouTube Gallery Views

View the gallery in 360 degrees, by clicking and moving your mouse over the two 360 degree YouTube videos below:







We are showing in the Pain Sugar Gallery in Riverside because Pavel Acevedo arranged this exhibition for us.  Pavel is in the Desert Triangle collection, and we are very proud to have him.


Before the big moment,
Pavel  Acevedo makes touch ups







The 3 "augmented reality" prints were a hit.  Most of the visitors were able to download the Augment El Paso app on their phones, and use it themselves.  I was impressed.  We also used our tablets to show off the augmented reality prints, all of which were animated  by Augment El Paso.


Instructions on how to download 


One of the first visitors,
downloaded the Augment El Paso app on her phone


Our most enthusiastic visitor
wore a pink hat!




Tim Musso (left)
printmaking professor from La Sierra University,
honored us with a visit at the opening.
He is standing next to Pavel Acevedo (right)


Isabel Quintero, book author,
came and bought a print by Nani Chacon


Miguel Flores,printmaker,
who participated in the Horned Toad Print Exchange II


We were happy to give a catalog to Adrian,
 an enthusiastic University of California, Riverside student


Someone with good taste




Promotional materials








Promotional flyers and posters
in front of the Urge Palette Art Store







The morning started off great.  Cheech Marin had a press conference to announce that he met his first fund raising goal, for the Cheech Marin Museum of Chicano Art, to be located in Riverside, California.





Pavel Acevedo of the Desert Triangle,
holds up a print he did of Cheech Marin



Pavel presents one of the Desert Triangle prints 
by Federico Villalba
to Kay at the Riverside Museum of Art.
Hopefully this will reach Cheech Marin,
and he can accept the print if he wants it



Thank you very much, Fritz Comandante Aragon and Laura Media, of the Urge Palette Art Store next door, for allowing us to show in their gallery.  They did a lot of work to prepare and hang the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, and we are very grateful to them.


Update (June 27, 2018):  We got a nice mention on Instagram from a curator:



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