Friday, July 31, 2015

Mark Christian

"False Idols Win Titles"


Mark Christian cut his woodblock relief board in Tucson, and then we sent it to El Paso to have it printed, by Manuel Guerra and Raul Monarrez,  at Horned Toad Prints:




Mark Christian signing his prints,
in the hallway of the
 Pleasure World Artist Studios and Galleries building,
in Tucson 


Raul Monarrez helped press Mark's print.
the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta




Manuel Guerra adjusting his press.
Horned Toad Prints is his personal studio.
Desert Triangle Print Carpeta
















Job well done!


Printed at Horned Toad Prints




 Update:  Manny would have preferred to print Mark's edition with a large roller.  But he did not have one then.

Later he got one from Takach Press (in Albuquerque) -- 28 inch long, 10.5 inch diameter, 60 durometer:


Grinding the larger roller,
to take out any imperfections




Joe cleaning the ground roller,
with a quick drying solvent,
that "flashes" quickly




Lauren Moran

"Final Thoughts Before the Reconstruction"


Lauren Moran, while she was in Tucson, created her multi-colored relief print at the Tucson Community Print Shop:

Lauren Moran shows off her big print,
in front of a show that she curated,
in the new Tiny Town Gallery in Tucson


She is leaving us soon, for graduate school at Portland State University.  We hope to see her again when we show the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta at the Southern Graphics Council conference in Portland next March, 2016.
















Masterpiece pulled at the 
Tucson Community Print Shop


Printed at the
Tucson Community Print Shop



Update:  Lauren Moran is one of the Inkubator presenters at the SGCI Portland (Southern Graphics Conference) 2016.

Mykl Wells

"Santa Muxe"


A "muxe" is a Oaxacan reference to the third sex.  Mykl takes that concept one step further, and makes the muxe into a saint.


Mykl Wells of Tucson spray painted over many silk screens frames, to create this 3 color serigraph print at the Tucson Community Print Shop:


Mykl used spray paint
to create the transparencies
which he burned onto silk screens
(one for each of 3 colors)


Jeik (director of the Tucson Community Print Shop)
setting up the screen for printing











Joe and Jeik assisted Mykl in the
Tucson Community Print Shop


Printed at the
Tucson Community Print Shop


Mykl Wells 
does the Cardboard Ball every year,


Update:  Mykl Well's image was spotted in the gift shop of the El Paso Museum of Art, selling as a postcard (March 2020).

Lower right hand corner
is Mykl Well's Desert Triangle image
as a post card,
selling in the gift shop of the El Paso Museum of Art



Martin Quintanilla

"El Ultimo Taco"



Martin Quintanilla printed his relief prints with a spoon at home in Tucson:


Martin in his studio
on the back porch of his house


Relief image carved in Mexican shoe rubber -- Neolite,
and printed with a spoon







Martin Quintanilla and Marcy Miranda Janes run the Microgallery Mandibula gallery in Tucson:


Martin next to the painting version of his print,
in his gallery


Martin standing in front of 
some of his other large prints


Martin standing in front of his large print,
at the huge Tohono Chul opening, 
"Dia de los Muertos" exhibition,
Friday, August 28th, 2015


Martin Quintanilla's prints
featured at the Tohono Chul exhibition,
"Dia de los Muertos" exhibition,
August 28 – November 8, 2015


Martin Quintanilla leading the huge skull he created,
in the All Souls Procession of 2012 in Tucson.
This segment recreated one of Michael Contreras' prints,
which was used for the poster of the 2011 All Souls Procession.


Martin Quintanilla
in Tucson