Sunday, May 15, 2016

Post-Momentum

Desert Triangle artists surface in new shows while the exhibit is still up at the El Paso Museum of Art.



Jellyfish and Los Dos participated in the JRZ jazz festival in Ciudad Juarez.  Pavel Acevedo participated in 2 shows in Los Angeles.  Joe Marshall was featured in a two page spread in the May 2016 issue of Zocalo Magazine.  Krrrl's print collaboration with Skinpop of Mexico City was printed by Taller 75 Grados.   Zeke Pena participated in an exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.  Tanya Rich showed her print at  the Art Undressed exhibition at The Drawing Studio in Tucson.  Francisco Delgado and Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado supported Gaspar Enriquez with paintings for a auction to support scholarships. This is just what I know about, since I am certain that other Desert Triangle artists are making an impact in other exhibitions this month.  And Cynthia Evans did another print demo at the El Paso Museum of Art's Spark Saturday.



Pavel Acevedo
Self Help Graphics

Pavel Acevedo showed a print
at Self Help Graphics in East LA
for the 43 Ayotzinapa exhibition,
opening May 12th


Pavel Acevedo and Marietta Bernstorff of SPARC LA
(Marietta introduced us to the Oaxaquen printmakers
which was inspiring enough to help launch
the Desert Triangle project)


Pavel's print


made in the workshop of the famous Oaxaquen artist Francisco Toledo  --
the opening night included talks by artists, organizers,
activists and members of the Black Panthers


Directors of Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles
introduce other artists


Legacy Self Help artists 
pose for a group picture during the opening


gave out printed sheets
showing the support of various US cities
with Ayotzinapa


I also met the artists Ricardo Estrada, Rosalie Lopez and Jane Madson McCabe at the opening.


 Mural in the parking lot of Self Help Graphics


The Self-Help opening corresponded with the 2nd Thursdays Artwalk in downtown LA.


A young artist paints on the streets of downtown LA
in anticipation of the Artwalk later than evening


I also visited Gemini G.E.L. printmaking studios in Los Angeles, which did prints for Ralph Rauschenberg and many other famous artists:




--  Avenue 50 Studio  --

Pavel Acevedo also filled one of the rooms of Avenue 50 Studio, for their exhibition, opening on the night of May 14th.







Gallery director Kathy Gallegos
poses with Pavel
during the opening at Avenue 50 Studio




The two small prints on the end
were produced recently 


Pavel standing in front of his print
for the Desert Triangle

I also met the printmaker Matt Thomason at the opening.


with Mat Gleason 


(he talks about the Desert Carpeta at 9:48)


of the University of California at Riverside




For flavor:
in downtown LA


I also checked out the new Broad museum of contemporary art while in downtown LA.

"Under the Table"
at the Broad museum



Joe Marshall

 Joe Marshall had a two page spread in the May 2016 issue of the  Zocalo magazine of Tucson:


May 2016 issue of the Zocalo magazine of Tucson


Krrrl

Krrrl commissioned Skinpop of Mexico City, to interpret one of his drawings.  This was then recently made into a serigraph at Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City.

Collaboration
of Krrrl and Skinpop





Zeke Peña


Zeke Peña participated in the House on Mango Street exhibition at the Hispanic National Cultural Center in Albuquerque, opening on April 29th.




at the National Hispanic Cultural Center



Tanya Rich

Tanya Rich submitted her print to the "Art Undressed" exhibition at The Drawing Studio in Tucson, running April 16th - May 7th.






Francisco Delgado

Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado

Francisco Delgado and Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado were once students of artist Gaspar Enriquez -- the Segundo Barrio Person of the Year 2016.  They were 2 of 6 ex-students, who were asked to do a painting for auction, to raise money for a Gaspar Enriquez scholarship.






Francisco Degaldo is also in the Grafica Transfronteriza carpeta, showing in Oaxaca during June.


Gonzalo Espinosa 

Gonzalo Espinosa finished a big tile ceramics project,for El Centro de la Raza in Seattle.


Gonzalo relaxes (finally) inside of one of his huge ceramic arches,
which he created for Seattle,
at the Sculpture Resource Center in Tucson


Mykl Wells

Mykl Wells is gearing up to go back to Cartasia, Italy, this summer to do another big cardboard art sculpture, like he did last year.  




Los Dos

Los Dos interview in the ReMezcla website.  They also did an Art en Vivo print at Proper Printshop in El Paso on June 30th:


Yorch

Yorch  (Jorge Perez) finished his bus sculpture in Juarez, with buses buried into the ground.






Rudy Flores

Rudy Flores 3D scanned and 3D printed several Tucson characters -- the Army Man Project -- as an art project, which was covered by Arizona Public Media of NPR.




Michael Contreras


Michael Contreras had another print show at the Contreras Gallery in Tucson, in July:




Spark Saturday at the El Paso Museum of Art

Meanwhile, back in El Paso, Cynthia Evans and Alexis Ruiz gave a second Spark Saturday print demonstration at the El Paso Museum of Art, on May 14th.  Cynthia came out with us to Houston last month, to do a steam roller print:






Alexis Ruiz


Also many of the Desert Triangle artists participated in the YayBig Print Exchange.  That print exchange is now showing near Yuma, Arizona.  

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