Monday, October 15, 2018

Highlights of the Desert Triangle Adventure


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:

Print explosion of April 2016


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


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:


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)



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




CHICAGO

Hoofprint Workshop in Chicago,
is as far north as we have exhibited --


HOUSTON

We brought the Desert Triangle to East Texas,
for the "It Came from the Bayou" Print Fair in 2016




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




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

interviewed us about the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta
on January 23, 2016 -- pictured are also


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


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




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








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


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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Summary -- 3rd Annual Southwest Print Fiesta

Silver City is at the very heart of the Desert Triangle -- in the center of Tucson, El Paso and Albuquerque.  That is why we are enthused to show prints at the 3rd annual Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City, New Mexico (Oct 5-7, 2018);  and have been there every year since it began in 2016.

This year we exhibited the Horned Toad II Print Exchange, organized by Manuel Guerra, UTEP printmaking professor, and head of Horned Toad Press in El Paso.




We exhibited the Horned Toad II Print Exchange
at the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City
October 2018!!!


Photos from the Southwest Print Fiesta website
of the festivities in 2018


2018 Southwest Print Fiesta
on YouTube


We have been to the 2 previous Southwest Print Fiestas in Silver City:

2016

2017

 This adventure started off  a week earlier, when we picked up the prints from Yuma, Arizona, where they were previously exhibited:

Picking up the prints from Yuma, Arizona,
where print professor Jules Floss exhibited them


We exhibited the "Horned Toad II Print Exchange" with the "Power of Print" exhibition, at the beautiful Seedboat Gallery in Silver City.  

Our exhibition is at the Seedboat Gallery


The turnout for the opening exceeded our expectations
(and was bigger than any opening we have had in Albuquerque)


The Horned Toad II Print Exchange
(see link for more gallery fotos)


 The "Power of Print" exhibition,
organized by Power and Light Press,
invited us to show with them at the Seedboat Gallery


Manuel Guerra discussing prints,
when the students from Aldo Leopold Charter school
visited in the afternoon, just before the opening


Manuel Guerra showed off the 3D printed printing press,
during the opening


Blossom Merz also had a 
3D printed printing press,
which he showed off in his vendor tent
during the main sale event the next day


The Arizona Print Group also exhibited prints,
in the Light Art Space Gallery
(a couple of these printmakers were also in 
our Horned Toad II Print Exchange exhibit)


The main event was the print vendor sale,
on Saturday, Oct 6th, 2018
(click link to see more vendor fotos)


Many steamroller prints were made during the vendor sale,
on Saturday, October 6th, 2018 --
Mike Kimball stands in front of his large steamroller print

THANK YOU!!!

 We want to give a big "Thank You" to the folks in Silver City who organized the 3rd Southwest Print Fiesta.
Natalie Good, from Power and Light Press, organized and hung the "Power of Print 2018" political print show, and curated the gallery.  She also hired the musicians and added those other special touches.  We really enjoyed working closely with Natalie Good, and she made a huge difference.

Natalie Good


Kyle Durrie, owner of "Power and Light Press" in Silver City, stepped in and helped organize this year.  She helped arrange our exhibition through email, and with her staff supported the exhibition.

Kyle Durrie


Kevin Lenkner is the executive director of the Mimbres Region Art Council, which runs the Southwest Print Fiesta.  We have been working with Kevin Lenkner for the past 3 Southwest Print Fiestas.

Kevin Lenkner,
at Western New Mexico University

75 Grados Pop-Up


On October 4, 2018, the Thursday before the Southwest Print Fiesta, 75 Grados from Mexico City had a pop-up print sale in downtown El Paso, on San Jacinto Plaza.


75 Grados Pop-Up Print Sale
in El Paso
on Oct 4, 2018

Summary of all Print Fiesta links:


Ambos Lados International Print Exchange



Meanwhile, Carlos Hernandez and those other Texas ink slingers, were showing prints in Lubbock during the same weekend at the Southwest Print Fiesta -- in their show "UFOs Over Lubbock."

UFOs over Lubbock,
print show on Oct 5th, 2018


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