Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

Monday, January 29, 2018

Austintatious Opening Night at Mexic-Arte!

Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin:
January 26 – May 27, 2018 (Closed February 12 – March 31)

We had a fantastic opening night for our exhibition at Mexic-Arte in downtown Austin, Texas -- Friday, January 26th, 2018. AUSTINTACIOUS!

Entering Mexic-Arte,

photography exhibition up front,

our Desert Triangle in the back

YouTube of opening night

(by Salvador Colon)

DESERT TRIANGLE ARTISTS

Printmakers from all 3 points of the Desert Triangle came to the opening:

Mexic-Arte director Sylvia Orozco,

with Francisco Delgado of El Paso,

standing next to Francisco's print

(made in Oaxaca)

Henry Morales of Albuquerque

Los Dos of El Paso

(Christian and Ramon Cardenas)

Jellyfish Collective

from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Arturo Negrete,

director of Taller 75 Grados in Mexico Citt,

(where a third of our prints were produced),

with artist Salvador Colon of Mexico City

Tanya Rich of Tucson

David Figueroa of Augment El Paso,

and Valeria Venecia

Interns from South Korea,

Minhee Kim and Garyeong Kim

Showing off the Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality tablets,

self-charging --

made by Fab Lab El Paso

Jonathan Rebolloso honored us

by coming to the opening,

he was a master printer with Sam Coronado,

at the Serie Project

El Federico (Achuelta) also came to the opening;

he helped us get the exhibition at Mexic-Arte.

Thank you El Federico!

Harvey Mireles (left)

of La Printeria,

came from San Antonio

Rebecca Gomez,

Curator of Exhibitions and Programs at Mexic-Arte,

and her husband.

Rebecca was a real pleasure to work with,

as she coordinated our exhibition

Director Sylvia Orozoco,

introduced all the artists,

both from the photography exhibit up front,

and those that came from our Desert Triangle exhibit in the back

Very high class opening! Wow.

Dulce Vida Tequila was one of the sponsors

International visitors

in front of one of the photography exhibits

One of Francisco Delgado's former students

came to the opening.

Yay!

Francisco Delgado sold prints at the opening

Henry Morales

brought some of his family up from San Antonio

Wanna buy a print?

Los grandes

in discussion

Los Dos, Jellyfish Collective, and Arturo Negrete

Jellyfish Collective from Ciudad Juarez,

El Federico, originally from El Paso

Serigraphs from Taller 75 Grados

Mexic-Arte

made buttons for our exhibition

A visitor commenting on our prints said that "there was something for everyone" in our collection, which I took as a great compliment.

We sold prints by Ruben Urea Moreno, Rudy Flores, Jellyfish, Los Dos, Tanya Rich, Matthew Poe, Francisco Delgado, and the next day, we sold a print by Martin Quintanilla. We are trying to get a print by Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado to sell as well.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Preparing for the Opening at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin

We had a great ramp up for our big opening at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin -- 6 - 9 PM -- on Friday, January 26th.

The anticipation is killing us!

(maybe just for the brunch

on the day following the opening)

STREET BANNER

Mexic-Arte posted a big banner of the exhibitions in front of their museum, on Congress Avenue (at 5th Street), the main street of Austin, Texas! Zeke Peñas print from the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta is featured. The augmented reality enhancements work on the banner, as they do on Zeke's print inside.

EXHIBITION BANNER

Maestro Arturo Negrete

de Taller 75 Grados,

llegando

#carpetaprints

on Instagram

GLASSTIRE

GLASSTIRE, the online Texas Arts magazine, visited Mexic-Arte, and reported on both exhibitions before the opening!!!

We are mentioned in the

Glasstire Top 5

for the week of January 25th, 2018

Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech

of Glasstire, arts coverage,

visit the Desert Triangle while it was setting up,

January 24th, 2018

HANGING

Andrew Anderson and Carlos Torres,

hanging the exhibition

The prints are being hung

FabLab El Paso

created the self-charging tablets,

to view the augmented prints,

by Augment El Paso

ARTISTS TALK

Artist talk the following day,

Saturday, January 27th,

1:30 PM

OUR CATALOG IN THE BOOKSTORE

Our catalog for sale in the Mexic-Arte bookstore, next to the Estampas de La Raza catalog, which we admired.

Our catalogs for sale at Mexic-Arte

MEXIC-ARTE

RECEIVING PRINTS FROM

TALLER 75 GRADOS

While we donated a set of Desert Triangle Print Carpeta works to Mexic-Arte, we also donated a few other prints made by Taller 75 Grados, and then they bought even more prints directly from Arturo Negrete of Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City.

Raul and Rebecca,

receiving some other print donations

(as well as one of Nani' Chacon's print)

Director Sylvia Orozoco

with Taller 75 Grados director Arturo Negrete,

looking at the print by phenomenal Mexican printmaker Mazatl,

just one of the prints considered for the Mexic-Arte collection

Prints by Salvador Colon

Salvador Colon

signing his print

before it passes into the Mexic-Arte collection

Serigraph by an art collective from

Juchitán, Oaxaca,

made after the 2017 earthquake

Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City

produced these serigraphs by Charlie Ramirez

to commemorate the exhibition --

for sale in the gift shop

Lunch at the famous old Driskill Hotel in downtown Austin --

(Left to right)

Harevy Mireles, Ceilo, Arturo Negrete, Tanya Rich,

Salvador Colon, San Antonio friend, Karl Whitaker

Tanya holding the print we bought by Paul Del Bosque,

from La Peña.

While standing in front of the big banner in front of Mexic-Arte,

on the main street of Austin,

Congress Avenue

Monday, January 22, 2018

PRINT AUSTIN

The Desert Triangle is part of PRINT AUSTIN, but our opening is not until January Friday, January 26th, 2018, at MEXIC-ARTE.

Desert Triangle

opening at Mexic-Arte

Friday, January 26th, 2018

Meanwhile, PRINT AUSTIN has been going on since January 15th:

January 20th

Cathy Savage,

in the door of the GreyDuck Gallery--

She is one of the Print Austin founders

Print Austin

"The Contemporary Print"

opening at Flatbed Press

"The Contemporary Print"

exhibited many diverse kinds of printmaking

Kate MacNeil

"Untitled (The Void)"

Intaglio

Elvia Perrin is the co-founder of Print Austin. She is hanging out with some of the Outlaw Printmakers below:

Elvia Perrin

flanked by the Amazing Hancock Brothers,

and Carlos Hernandez on the right,

(the printmakers of the Kowboyz and Monsters exhibition,

which opened the night before)

I also regret missing the Rebolloso Print Studio pop-up exhibition the night before. However, Logan Hill of that pop-up show did show up for the Print Austin Contemporary Print opening:

Logan Hill,

and Paloma Mayorga of Mexic-Arte

James Surls exhibit

at Flatbed Press

opened earlier, on January 12, 2018

Francisco Delgado had a small litho print for sale at Flatbed Press, though it is hard to see in the photo below:

The inner sanctum of Flatbed Press,

with a small Francisco Delgado for sale in the stacks!

A new edition next to Flatbed Press,

was the Austin Book Arts Center

Practically next door to Flatbed Press, there was an opening at Slugfest Printmaking, run by Margaret Simpson and Tom Druecker:

At Slugfest Printmaking,

an opening of the show by Silas Breaux,

"Misrememberance"

Work by Silas Breaux

I love the Slugfest printmaking studio

(Krrrl did a litho here years ago)

Tom Huck spotting at Slugfest!

I also ran into Ryan O'Malley (currently teaching printmaking at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi) at the Slugfest opening!

JANUARY 21st

On Sunday, January 21, I really enjoyed the print talk by the women of the ROUX exhibition -- Ann “Sole Sister” Johnson, Rabéa Ballin, Delita Martin (Lovie Olivia was unable to attend), at the Prizer Arts and Letters studio in East Austin:

Ann “Sole Sister” Johnson, Rabéa Ballin, Delita Martin

in the middle, talking about their prints in the exhibition --

the large print in the back is by Delita Martin

JANUARY 23rd

Dr Paul Laidler, of the University of West England, gave a lecture in the Art Building at the University of Texas. He spoke about practice, result oriented print making research (vs question oriented). He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Fine Print Research.

His website is Just Press P, and on January 26th, there is an opening at the University of Texas, of the print show he curated with the same name -- Just Press Print.