Monday, May 7, 2018

Pain Sugar Gallery -- Riverside, California

The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta will be showing during June and August, at the Pain Sugar Gallery in Riverside, California.

Opening reception on Thursday, June 7, 2018 -- 6 - 10 PM.
Closing reception on Saturday, July 28, 2018.








Pain Sugar Gallery is next to Urge Palette Art Supplies


PRESS RELEASE:

Desert Triangle Print Carpeta 


Surging from the haze of Mountain Time, come 29  large prints -- from Tucson, Albuquerque and El Paso -- plus one master print from local artist Pavel Acevedo of Riverside  -- to form the "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta."  This collection of colorful serigraphs, relief prints, and one lithograph was inspired by Chicano prints, and created largely, but not entirely, by Mexican-American artists.  These prints were commissioned in 2015 especially for this portfolio; and without a theme (though abstract work was discouraged), which unleashed a wide variety of personal visions.  The editions were produced in 14 different studios, across the Southwest and Mexico.  

Previously this portfolio has been shown at venues in both the US and Mexico, including the El Paso Museum of Art, and most recently  Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin.

"The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta" is on view at the  Pain Sugar Gallery (3635 9th St) during June and July -- opening on Thursday, June 7th, at 6 PM.



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We are hanging the prints with nice Posterhangers by Jørgen Møller.  


Posterhangers by Jørgen Møller


2 packages, the prints and the poster hangers, were shipped from Albuquerque on May 17th, due to arrive in Riverside next week. This exhibition is happening!


Box of prints


Box of poster hangers


Riverside will soon be home to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture and Industry.  The project has been approvedFundraising has begun.





Next stop for the Desert Triangle is July, an exhibit at the Arts Warehouse in Delray, Florida, just north of Miami.  Opening on Friday, July 6th.



Also, in Las Cruces -- there is a print show on June 9th, from 7 - 10 pm, called -- Show Me Your Prints -- at Four Points Perspective Gallery (at 3405 South Highway 28, on the corner of Union and Avenida de Mesilla).



Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Bayou -- Main Event -- Houston

Printmakers descended on Houston from all over the country for the print fair -- "It Came from the Bayou!" -- on April 22nd, 2018!  At the Saint Arnold's Brewing Company.  This is always a great event!


Entrance




PRINTS PURCHASED

We brought a lot of prints back to the Southwest from Houston.  THIS LINK showcases all the prints purchased.



PRINTMAKERS


John Hancock
the most fun printmakers on the planet


Joshua Kolbow
from the University of North Dakota


Austin 
Associate director of Flatbed Press


Professsor at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi


New York


Saint Louis


University of Louisiana Lafayette




Austin


Samantha R Mendoza


New York


Saint Louis


Wesley Kramer


selling Risograph prints by Sarah Welch
Houston 


Austin


Tom Huck


Good turnout in Houston





We attended this event  twice before -- in 2015 and 2106:





We also invited a lot of these printmakers to participate in the "Ambos Lados International Print Exchange," which is open to all.  Delivery deadline November 2nd, 2018. (sign up deadline September 1st).

Also there was buzz about creating Texas Printmaking Biennial, for regional printmakers.


Stopped by Flatbed Press in Austin on Tuesday (April 24th), to once again admire this huge soft ground print by the late Robert Levers:




Outlaws of Print -- at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art -- many of the printmakers in Houston were also showing in Indiana (April 21-July 8, 2018):



Friday, April 20, 2018

It Came from the Bayou 2018

Krrrl is venturing out to Houston again, for the"Wiener Welcome" (April 21st) and "It Came from the Bayou" print fair (April 22nd), to see what the Central Time Texas printmakers are up to.

The main event takes place on Sunday (April 22nd) at the Saint Arnold Brewery -- 2000 Lyons Ave, in Houston.


-- On Instagam too! --


WIENER WELCOME


Wiener Welcome and Poster Show
Saturday, April 21st


The day before the "It Came from the Bayou" Print Fair in Houston, there was a "Wiener Welcome Poster Show" at Burning Bones Press.  28 artists from all over the country contributed prints, including Krrrl.  This is a great event, as the printmakers bring a lot of energy with them.

@burningbonespress Instagram




Krrrl's bad print is the middle red one






Some of the Printmakers
with their Prints


Carlos Hernandez
@electriccalavera on Instagram
Houston


Tess Doyle
Houston


Selene Bataille
@selene.bataille Instagram
Austin


Kendall Bradley
Austin


Emmett Merrill
Tennessee


Jackson Kissel
@darktideprints Instagram
St Louis


Casey McGarr
@inkylipspress Instagram
Dallas


Carlos Pozo
@cavemanarchitect Instagram
Houston


Martin Mazorra
@cannonballpress Instagram
Brooklyn



Joshua Kolbow
Green Rabbit Press
from the University of North Dakota


Austin God --
from the first psychedelic band
13th Floor Elevators!


Master Printmaker Tom Huck
receives the catalog for the Horned Toad Print Exchange II
as we are trying to get him and his crew
to participate in Horned Toad III/Ambos Lados


One of the Burning Bone's presses


Print legacy


Gathering of the Printmakers
(where's Manny Guerra?)