Friday, September 15, 2023

PANEL DISCUSSION with “DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA” artists

There will be an online panel discussion on Zoom with five the "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta" artists -- on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 at 5:30 PM Arizona Time (6:30 PM El Paso and Albuquerque time):

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Panel Discussion at the University of Arizona Art Museum
with "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta" artists


The artists are:


We made a four minute video looking back on the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta adventure:

The Desert Triangle Adventure


Krrrl also wrote a short summary of the Desert Triangle adventure, in preparation for the questions they might ask him.

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The Desert Triangle was mentioned in the Art After Dark event on Thursday, September 14th, 2023, where Tanline Printing "was giving letter press demos."

The Desert Triangle was part of the UofA
"Hybrid Art Trivia Happy Hour: Prints"
on September 14, 2023



RECEPTION

Also note that the Desert Triangle reception will be on October 26, 2023 at the University of Arizona Art Museum in Tucson.


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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Desert Triangle opens at the University of Arizona

The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta opened on June 10th, 2023, at the University of Arizona Art Museum in Tucson, and will remain up until December 21st, 2023.  

The reception will be on Thursday, October 26, 2023, and there will also be a gallery panel talk sometime in September:

The University of Arizona Art Museum
posted this photo of the Desert Triangle
on Instagram



On June 3rd, Ruben Urea Moreno gave a talk and a sneak peek the week before the Desert Triangle opened officially


Ruben Urea Moreno
sneak peek talk
on June 3rd, 2023


Ruben Urea Moreno (right)
giving the Desert Triangle talk
on June 3rd, 2023
(photo courtesy of Chelsea Farrar)



The exhibition in miniature,
right before they hung the big prints




The University of Arizona
gave a new twist on our logo


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Friday, December 30, 2022

Upcoming Exhibition at the University of Arizona Art Museum -- and Artist Updates

UPDATE (May 25, 2023): The soft opening for the Desert Triangle has been pushed back from June 3rd to June 10th, 2023. Also the reception is schedules for Thursday, October 26, 2023.

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
 ART MUSEUM


The next exhibition of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta will be at the University of Arizona Art Museum from May 27th June 10th to December 21st, 2023, with a reception in October:


The Desert Triangle
is showing in 2023
at the University of Arizona Art Museum


The Desert Triangle
is mentioned on the website
of Southwest Contemporary Magazine


Announced on Instagram

Looking Back
The Desert Triangle adventure



Printmaker UPDATES 


Augment El Paso, run by David Figueroa, added augmented reality to three of the Desert Triangle prints, for which we are very grateful.  Augment El Paso continues pushing the envelope to this day:

Augment El Paso 2019


Nanibah Chacon had an exhibition -- Spectrum -- at Site Santa Fe, April 8 - August 21, 2022:

Nanibah Chacon's opening
at Site Santa Fe


Nanibah Chacon's exhibition
at Site Santa Fe


The Jellyfish Colectivo had an exhibition -- Manipulation -- at the Rubin Center on the UTEP Campus in El Paso, February 5 - April 16, 2021:

Manipulation exhibition
at the Rubin Center in El Paso


Los Dos of El Paso created a large sculpture "La Guardiana" for Coachella in California, from April 15 - April 24, 2022:

Los Dos created a large sculpture
for Coachella 2022


Cristina Cardenas was featured in the "Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche" exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, from June 11 - September 4, 2022.  This exhibition was organized by the Denver Museum of Art, and showed there previously, February 6 - May 8, 2022:

Cristina Cardenas' piece
at the Malinche exhibition
in the Albuquerque Museum


Martin Quintanilla continues to run his gallery "Microgallery Mandibula" in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, and in March 2021 participated in a large steamroller printmaking event using Styrofoam plates from 30 artists, laid out next to each other, to print on a cloth that was 262 feet (I posted about this at the bottom of another blog entry).



The big print
next to the inked Styrofoam plates




Jorge "Yorch" Perez opened up a printmaking studio next to his Panaderia Rezizte in Ciudad Juarez, and painted a huge mural on the banks of the Rio Grande below the Santa Fe Bridge, linking Juarez to El Paso:

Jorge "Yorch" Perez
painted a huge mural on the banks of the Rio Grande
below the bridge linking Juarez to El Paso


Manuel Guerra, in addition to teaching printmaking at UTEP, organized the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange with Taller Grafica Libre of Zaachila, Oaxaca, showing 158 prints in a traveling exhibition, to Dallas, Santa Fe, Taos, Silver City, Albuquerque and coming to the El Paso Museum of History in March 2023:

Manuel Guerra touring Mexico in 2019
as part of the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange


Raul Monarrez, the master colorist, continues printing with Horned Toad Prints in El Paso:

Raul Monarrez inks up
for live printmaking in May 2022,
during the Horned Toad 8x8 Print Show


Tino Ortega was selected to create a memorial at Ponder Park commemorating the victims of the El Paso mass shooting of August 3, 2019:

Tino Ortega is creating a memorial
for the victims of the El Paso mass shooting
of August 3, 2019


Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado painted a mural -- "Fronterizos" -- on the El Paso Museum of Art:

Mural by Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado
on the El Paso Museum of Art
(photo January 2023)


Rogo gets busy printing live with a Tortilla Press in the Phoenix area, at Superstition Tiki Village:

Rogo Live Prints at Superstition Tiki Village


Henry Morales is busy printing and selling in Albuquerque, such as at the Marigold Parade in November 2022:

Henry Morales selling prints
at the Marigold Parade
in Albuquerque 2022


Joe Marshall came from Tucson to sell prints at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2022, in Silver City, New Mexico:

Joe Marshall (right) and Manuel Guerra
at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2022


Mykl Wells of Tucson, went to Lucca, Italy in 2016 to create a huge cardboard sculpture for Cartasia.   He was also featured in the book -- The Art of Cardboard.

Mykl Wells in front of one of his
huge cardboard sculptures


Michael Contreras is still running his gallery -- The Contreras House of Fine Art --in Tucson:

The Contreras House of Fine Art
in the downtown Tucson Warehouse Arts District


Francisco Delgado painted the Father Rahm mural on the gymnasium of Sacred Heart church in downtown El Paso, long before he made a print for the Desert Triangle.  However it has recently been featured on the national news (January 2023) and the immigrants gather around it:

Immigrants gather in front of the mural
painted by Francisco Delgado on the gymnasium
of the Sacred Heart Church in downtown El Paso
(photo January 3, 2023)


Zeke Peña's print was acquired and shown at the Smithsonian, as mentioned previously.  He also illustrated the book -- Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide -- published by the Getty Foundation.  I attended two events on the book tour, including one in Oaxaca, Mexico:

Zeke Peña's drawing posted on the streets of Oaxaca
promoting the book on Graciela Iturbide


Pavel Acevedo is a Speedball artist.  Moreover he was the first artist-in-residence at Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles during the year 2020.

Pavel Acevedo
 working at Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles
as their first artist-in-residence in 2020


Chris Bardey organized the Impress 2 Express exhibition of Las Cruces printmakers at the Las Cruces Museum of Art in 2019, along side the Desert Triangle exhibition:

During opening night at the Las Cruces Museum of Art
Chris Bardey (center) also made prints live
on the streets of Las Cruces in 2019


Rudy Flores 3D scanned and 3D printed Tucson personalities in the Army Man Project:

The Army Man Project
of 3D prints by Rudy Flores


Ruben Urrea Moreno is always very active as seen on his blog and Instagram accounts.  Below is an interview with Ruben by Mel Dominguez:

A Chat with Visual Artist Ruben Urrea Moreno


Tanya Rich arranged for the Desert Triangle to be exhibited at the Delray Arts Warehouse in South Florida in 2018, next to the Bermuda Triangle:

Tanya Rich arranged for an exhibition of the Desert Triangle
north of Miami in 2018


Lauren Moran arranged for us to show the Desert Triangle at the SGCI print conference 2016 at Portland State University:

Lauren Moran (right)
after we just hung the Desert Triangle
at Portland State University
for the SGCI print conference in 2016


Tim Razo posts his marvelous illustrations on his new blog, and painted a mural during Chalk the Block in El Paso 2016:

Tim Razo's mural in El Paso
painted during Chalk the Block in 2016


Victor Muheddine is selling his custom designs at Big Cartel:

Victor Muheddine on Big Cartel


Krrrl (Karl Whitaker) is collecting and showing small 8x8 inch prints, and writing about the experience on the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS blog, and the BUCKET PRINTS blog:

Krrrl printing live on a Tortilla Press,
in front of the Bucket Exhibition show in the Axle van,
during the Printed Matter festival
in Santa Fe, July 2022


Gonzalo Espinosa is in Puerto Vallarta working on another ceramic mural project for Centro de la Raza in Seattle:

Gonzalo in Puerto Vallarta
working on his Seattle mural project (left),
and enjoying life in the sculpture studio of
Gulooch Gustavo Lopez


This list is not complete, nor does it cover everything that the artists have been doing since the Desert Triangle was completed in 2016.  However it does shed some light on how these printmakers continue to make great art to this day.


Aside:  I noticed that the Desert Triangle catalog is mentioned on the WorldCat website

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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Mexic-Arte exhibition of the Juan Sandoval Collection

Currently Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas is showing artwork from the collection of the late Juan Sandoval -- Mexico, the Border and Beyond: Selection from the Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr Collection.  The exhibition is up currently -- December 19, 2020 -- August 22, 2021.


Juan Sandoval collection
showing at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin

Many of the Desert Triangle prints and artists are featured in this exhibition, as seen in the "virtual exhibition":


(also on the cover our our catalog)


Los Dos


(lower left and lower middle)




(Francisco Delgado lithograph middle bottom)






(lower right-- not his Desert Triangle print)


Two Francisco Delgado lithographs
(right, not from the Desert Triangle)




(small prints lower left, not Desert Triangle)


Dr Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr passed away on January 3, 2021, after the exhibition opened. He donated his print collection to Mexic-Arte, which is the basis for this exhibition. Thank you Juan Sandoval and Mexic-Arte!




Dr Gilberto Cardenas gave a Zoom presentation of his art collection  on April 3, 2021, as part of the events around the current Dr Juan Sandoval collection:

Presentation by Dr Gilberto Cardenas


Related articles about the El Paso murals:
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