SELECTION OF PRINTS
These "Postre Prints" come one year after the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art. We wanted to show that quality work is still being done by Southwest printmakers, and by Southwest print shops. The initial idea was to exhibit prints done in the last year, by artists and print shops inside the desert triangle of Tucson, Albuquerque, and El Paso.
A few of the prints were made before our museum show last year. Moreover we brought in a few great prints from our near neighbors, reaching as far as California, Mexico, and the Heart of Texas (and a couple from a bit further). By stretching our focus, we show that our Southwest artists stand up nicely next to work outside of our region.
We built this exhibition around work from 6 printmakers -- lithographs from Francisco Delgado and Zeke Peña; reciprocal serigraphs by Pavel Acevedo and Christin Apodaca; and serigraphs from Malaquias and Maceo Montoya of California, done by Proper Printshop. Then other prints cascaded from there.
When we casually showed some new prints at Proper, along with prints we bought in Houston, Edwin Stuart suggested that we called the show "Dessert Triangle," because it followed our El Paso Museum of Art print show, like pie à la mode follows a good meal. We had to change the title, but in keeping with that spirit we call this show "Postre Prints."
--Karl Whitaker
Lithography
by Francisco Delgado
After the Desert Triangle exhibition, Francisco Delgado created lithographs at La Ceiba Grafica, near Jalapa in Veracruz, Mexico in the summer of 2016. Then he recently created a lithograph at Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas, in January 2017:
"American Graffiti II"
"American Graffiti White Elephant"
(created at Flatbed Press in Austin)
"Incomprendido"
(created at La Ceiba Grafia)
Lithography
by Zeke Peña
Zeke Peña of El Paso, created a couple of lithographs in Chicago, at Hoofprint Workshop. Later, in August 2016, we showed the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta at Hoofprint.
"La Xingona"
Lithograph
"El Looey"
Lithograph
Reciprocal prints
by Pavel Acevedo
and Christin Apodaca
Pavel Acevedo and Christin Apodaca did reciprocal portrait prints, shrinking the distance between Riverside, California and El Paso, Texas:
"The Distance Will Unite Us / La Distancia nos Unira"
Serigraph
El Paso
"The Distance Will Unite Us / La Distancia nos Unira"
Serigraph
Riverside, CA
Prints from TANA
in California
Proper Printshop of El Paso pulled two serigraph editions for Malaquias and Maceo Montoya, of TANA, which is part of the University of California at Davis. After Francisco Delgado made a lithograph at TANA, both Malaquias and Maceo Montoya participated in the first Horned Toad Print Exchange, run by Manuel Guerra. Later they showed both the Horned Toad and the YayBig Print Exchange at TANA in the summer of 2015. Manuel Guerra went out to California for the opening. El Paso is feeling an artistic connection with Sacramento.
"In the Beginning"
Serigraph
Davis, CA
"The Dreamer"
Serigraph
Davis, CA
"Art en Vivo"
in El Paso
in El Paso
Proper Printshop of El Paso had live printing events throughout 2016 -- called Art en Vivo -- amassing 52 serigraph editions. They borrowed the concept from Taller 75 Grados, who did their Taller en Vida live printing events in Mexico City. We selected a few of these prints to help retell our story.
Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado brought in Luis Valderas and Kim Bishop to do live steamroller printing at Chalk the Block 2014. Both the Tucson and El Paso based print exchanges were exhibiting together across the plaza at the time.
Serigraph
El Paso
Los Dos is Ramon and Christian Cardenas. They were critical in organizing the El Paso artists for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, and arranged to get a third of those prints made in Mexico City, at Taller 75 Grados. Moreover, they had a pop-up also at Chalk the Block 2014, which goes back many previous years as Main-tain Collective had a big presence during previous Chalk the Block festivals. Since then they have been painting murals in El Paso, Juarez, San Antonio and Mexico City.
Serigraph
El Paso
Tim Razo's print is very much like his print for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta. He also painted a mural in downtown El Paso from the image of this print:
"Cliff Dwelling"
serigraph
El Paso
Peter Svarzbein is a photographer that started the Purple Gallery, after realizing the El Paso Transnational Trolley Project art project.
Serigraph
El Paso
Gaspar Enriquez is an important El Paso artist, teacher of Francisco Delgado and Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado. This print is the final print of the Art en Vivo portfolio, pulled by Proper Printshop in El Paso. What a regal conclusion to a year's worth of prints:
serigraph
El Paso
El Paso
Cynthia Evans did live printing demos at the El Paso Museum of Art as part of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta show. She also went to Houston with us to do her big steamroller print; and then sell prints in Silver City at the Southwest Print Fiesta. Previously she had done live print demos at JVB's in El Paso.
Relief print
El Paso
Matthew Poe's new serigraph is a follow up on his Desert Triangle Print Carpeta print:
Serigraph
El Paso
Juarez
This Jellyfish print was done in Ciudad Juarez by Taller 75 Grados:
"La Pelea"
serigraph
Juarez
Yorch (Jorge Perez) is part of the Colectivo Rezizte of Juarez. Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City pulled this huge bus print, which relates to a bus sculpture he did in Juarez. Los Dos contacted Yorch, and that is how we discovered Taller 75 Grados, and had a third of our Desert Triangle prints pulled in Mexico City.
Serigraph
Juarez
Yorch in front of his bus sculpture
in Ciudad Juarez
Tucson
The print volley started when Tanya Rich and Krrrl brought some prints from Tucson, to show at Chalk the Block 2013 in El Paso. They pulled a lot of the printmakers from the YayBig Gallery in Tucson, run by Joe Marshall, and thus called their show the YayBig Southwest Print Collection. Then they showed that collection in pop-up galleries all across the Southwest, buying new prints at each location. That culminated in a YayBig Southwest exhibition in Tucson, and yielded our first print catalog. It was the Tucson/El Paso connection that made us look more regional, rather than just at the artists of a particular city.
While Glenn Buack was not part of the YayBig Southwest Collection until very recently, he has mastered drypoint in a short time, creating phenomenally detailed prints by scratching on plastic. Glenn is a huge inspiration.
dry point
"Han Ambassador to Egypt"
Tucson
We bought Wesley Fawcett Creigh's at Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery in Tucson. It's from her Teenage Wasteland series. She painted the mural in front of the old Dry River Collective, and inside at Xerocraft hackerspace:
"The Breakfast Club"
etching
Tucson
Gonzalo Espinosa, Joshua Woodhall, and Krrrl formed Taller Sin Miedo print collective at the Sculpture Resource Center in Tucson in 2012. That effort did not yield many serigraphs, but Gonzalo told us how Mexican artists created "carpeta" print portfolios. All that lead to the bigger Desert Triangle Print Carpeta later on.
"A Veces me Siento como un Perro"
Serigraph
Tucson
The printmaker Joe Marshall founded YayBig (You and Your Big Ideas) Gallery in Tucson, dedicated mostly to printmakers. Krrrl took works from many of those printmakers on the road, and that effort blossomed into YayBig Southwest pop-ups and exhibtions all over the region. Later that momentum culminated in the YayBig Print Exchange, which has pretty much been on public display since its debut in 2014 (currently on display at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque):
"Paw Paws F-100"
reduction woodcut
Tucson
Danny Martin is a big printmaker in Tucson, and this print graces the cover of our YayBig Southwest catalog:
"Speedway"
Relief print
Tucson
Kathryn Polk is a nationally prominent lithographer from Tucson:
"Wearing the Bible Belt"
lithograph
When Martin Quintanilla came to the Sculpture Resource Center in 2012, and brought his huge print output for sale at the first Print Salon, he embodied the power of print, and made an impression on everyone. Now, with his new press from Oaxaca, there is no stopping him:
"El Hippie"
relief print
Tucson
Marcus Robiason found us at the print workshops during the YayBig Southwest exhibition in Tucson in 2014. Later he did a big steamroller print at Chalk the Block 2014. Currently he runs the Tucson Print Meet-up.
"The Beast"
woodcut
Tucson
Joshua Woodhall was part of the print collective Taller sin Miedo at the Sculpture Resource Center in Tucson:
"Head Chewing"
relief print
Tucson
Albuquerque
Albuquerque is home to two major print workshops, Remarque Print Workshop (formerly New Grounds), and Tamarind Institute.
Printmaker Karsten Creightney currently has a solo show at 516 Arts Gallery in Albuquerque:
relief print
Albuquerque
Henry Morales is a prolific printmaker, who made his own press in order to accommodate the larger size required by the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta:
"Devil with Bottle"
woodcut
Santa Fe
Santa Fe is the art capital of the Southwest.
Eli Levin started the Santa Fe Drawing Group in 1969 (and only retired recently), which is still going on robustly at the Argos Gallery. He is also integral to the Santa Fe Etching Club, many of those artists being represented in the 100 Santa Fe Etchers book, produced by Dr Robert Bell.
"Santa Fe Art Scene"
etching with engraving
When John Reger is not drawing at the Santa Fe Drawing Group, he is giving drawing classes at the Anthony Ryder Studio in Santa Fe:
"Vanitas"
Intaglio
Santa Fe
Heart of Texas
We encountered El Federico when he invited El Paso and Juarez artists to show during the East Austin Open Studios in 2016. Federico Archuleta used to paint rock stars for Tower Records; some of those works survive in front of the University of Texas, at Guadalupe and 24th Street:
"Oye, Gringo, Bike"
serigraph
Austin
We were impressed by Omar Gonzalez's prints at the It Came from the Bayou 2016 print fair in Houston:
"There you Are"
serigraph
"Al Que Coma Chicharrones Por la Mañana, Al Día Siguiente No Le Salen Canas
He Who Eats Pork Rinds In The Morning, Won’t Get Gray Hairs The Next Day"
Linocut
San Antonio
San Francisco
There is a strong printmaking community in San Francisco. Besides the two printmakers below, we have work from Toru Sugita of San Francisco. His prints were made in Oaxaca, so we put Toru in the Mexico section.
Krrrl bought the David Avery print from Regina Held at New Grounds Print Workshop, before it flew off for sale in a New York Art Fair. She is very fond of this printmaker. This print is a take on a print by Hendrick Goltzius , which is Krrrl's favorite printmaker:
"Too Close to the Sun"
etching
San Francisco
We bought this print by Michael Roman at La Mano Magico in Oaxaca. Michael Roman created artistic t-shirts for Carlos Santana, and his work was featured in Madonna's film "Desperately Seeking Susan." He taught Krrrl how to silk screen at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco. When Toru Sugita and Krrrl asked about him in Oaxaca, we were shocked to discovered that he had passed away just two days earlier, the day after Christmas 2016:
Serigraph
San Francisco
Hecho en Mexico
Mexico has a lot of impressive young printmakers, continuing the strong tradition, that goes all the way back to the Royal Academia de San Carlos, founded 1781.
When Krrrl saw Jose Quintero's drawing for this serigraph, he went down to Mexico City and wouldn't leave until they had pulled this print. Arturo Negrete, the director of Taller 75 Grados serigraph studios, decided to go big with this masterpiece. We are very pleased to be showing this print:
"Serigraferos por Vida"
Serigraph
Toru Sugita, of San Francisco, went down to Oaxaca last Christmas and New Years (2016-17) to create 2 etchings at Taller Grafica Libre, run by Beatriz Rivas and Adrián Aguirre. He first showed these prints at Espacio Centro in Oaxaca, run by Nidia Rosales Moreno. Nidia also runs the artist-in-residence program with Taller Grafica Libre:
"Dos Caminos #1"
Intaglio
San Francisco
"Dos Caminos #2"
Intaglio
San Francisco
Marco Sanchez also went down to Taller Grafica Libre in Oaxaca in 2016, where he printed his self-portrait. Francisco Delgado previously created his Desert Triangle print there.
"Self Portrait"
Relief print
El Paso
Krrrl was so delighted with Taller 75 Grados, that he asked Arturo Negrete if he could find someone to collaborate on a serigraph. Skinpop took elements from two of Krrrl's drawings, and translated them into their psychedelic style. Skinpop is two artists, Raul Urias (originally from Chihuahua City), and Mostasho (originally from Juarez):
Serigraph
Albuquerque/Mexico City
Humberto Valdez is a prolific young printmaker working in Mexico City, whose work is seen all over Mexico. He recently produced a book of Mexican printmakers called "A Tiro de Fuego." He is currently having a solo exhibition at the Museo de la Ciudad de Leon, Guanajuato:
"Frida"
relief print
Print Zero selected prints
Several of our artists from the Southwest submitted print editions to the Print Zero Print Exchange #9 of Seattle. 3 of our artists were selected for the catalog and traveling exhibition, as shown below. Note that Manuel Guerra is organizing his second Horned Toad Print Exchange at the moment:
"Ghost Nun"
Relief and drypoint
Tucson
"Espuelas"
serigraph
El Paso
"Es Mejor Pedir Perdon que Permiso"
Relief print
El Paso
Outlaw Printmaker
Tom Huck
Tom Huck is a very famous printmaker from St Louis, a force in the Outlaw Printmakers. Gamblin even sells Tom Huck's Outlaw Black printmaking ink. Tom Huck did the cover of the Root's album Phrenology.
"One Night Only"
Relief print
St Louis
A Big Find from
SGCI 2016 in Portland
SGCI 2016 in Portland
"Motherbird"
Lithograph
Madison, Wisconsin
Francisco Delgado's students
Francisco Delgado brought prints from his high school students to the Dessert Triangle show at Proper Printshop in El Paso in May 2016. So we framed these prints for this more formal exhibition, and will be taking these prints to the next show in Albuquerque, at the South Broadway Cultural Center, opening April 20th:
Jacob Lane
"Oxymoron"
Intaglio
El Paso
Pablo Medina
"Paraphernalia"
relief
El Paso
GALLERY
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