organizer of the event,
with the t-shirt Proper Printshop made
from his flyer image
Selena signature stencil
by our host
was wall to wall people
for about three hours
Our prints hung on the far wall
More prints on the adjacent wall
Altar to recently deceased
Mexican singer from Juarez
Prints from Proper Printshop in El Paso,
mostly from their Art en Vivo series
Painting from Mambo
(aka David Flores), of Juarez
Earlier in the day
visitors looking at some of the
Desert Triangle prints from El Paso/Juarez
Earlier in the day,
the space was dedicated to
paintings by Federico Archuleta,
who was featured specifically
More great work by Federico
The Switch --
taking down and rolling up Federico's paintings of the day,
to uncover the prints from El Paso/Juarez for the night
Master printer Jonathan Rebolloso
holding up the Federico Villalba print
which he bought
Federico's "Happening"
was one of the recommended events
of the East Austin Studio Tour
The "one night only" event,
T-shirt
by "El Federico"
The venue is just across I-35,
from the University of Texas
Other posts on Instagram for the East Austin Studio Tour:
An old bicycle show is converted into
a pop-up gallery
with Selena painting by Federico Archuleta
We sold prints by Cimi Alvarado, Jellyfish, Los Dos, Federico Villalba, Tino Ortega, and one by Zeke Pena which is not in the Desert Triangle. Plus we dazzled Austin with the augmented reality of Zeke's Desert Triangle print. It was a great event!
after the East Austin Open Studio Tour,
featuring graffiti muralistas like this one from Fish
We also visited Mexic-Arte
while in Austin,
and will donate a Desert Triangle carpeta
to this museum
During the event we learned about Mercadorama prints from Mexico.
Meanwhile, Los Dos just finished two murals in San Antonio last week on the Hayes Street Bridge, for the Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival:
New mural by Los Dos,
in San Antonio
The other mural by Los Dos
We donated one of Francisco Delgado's new lithographs, done at La Ceiba Grafica in Veracruz, to the University of Texas at San Antonio Special Collections archive.
New litho by Francisco Delgado,
now at UTSA
Professor Kent Rush (l)
reviewing a UTSA portfolio,
including a Luis Jimenez,
to be donated to the UTSA Libraries Special Collections
Starting February 23rd, 2017, we will be showing a collection of new prints at the Purple Gallery in downtown El Paso, constructed around Francisco's print above. Therefore we bought a great linoleum print from Juan de Dios Mora, who teaches in the University of Texas at San Antonio printmaking department, along with Kent Rush and Humberto Saenz.
We acquired this print
from Juan de Dios Mora
Last year at this time, YayBig Southwest had a print show at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, in Brownsville:
