Thank you Miguel Ibarra
for our logo
EL PASO
TUCSON
ALBUQUERQUE
MEDIA
THE CATALOG
EL PASO
has an article about the
Desert Triangle Print Carpeta
on pages 16 and 17
(free in El Paso, Juarez, Ciudad Chihuhua, and Marfa)
Manuel Guerra, Lecturer in the printmaking department at UTEP,
Marina Monsisvais, KTEP radio host
for the First Saturday Artwalk
Februrary 6th, from 6 - 9 PM
An article about the
Februrary 6th, from 6 - 9 PM
The Loft Cinema in Tucson projected our ads on the big screen before their movies in February (2 during the first half of February, the other 2 during the second half).
Also we are an underwriter sponsor of KXCI, which means that we are running 20 ads from February 5 -9 on that radio station:
Support for KXCI is provided the "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta," on view in February at the Contreras Gallery, 110 East 6th Street. 30 printmakers from Tucson, Albuquerque, and El Paso, including works by Cristina Cardenas, Martin Quintanilla, Mark Christian, and many more. Opening reception on February, 6th in the evening during the First Saturday Artwalk. More at DesertTriangle.com.
came out in the local free newspaper,
the Weekly Alibi (Volume 25, Issue 28, July 14-20 2016)
OTHER EXHIBITIONS
We also exhibited outside the Desert Triangle, by first having a few exhibitions in Mexico in 2015, before showing at various venues in the US in 2016.
MEXICO 2015
PATZCUARO
(also March 11 -- April 3, 2016)
MEXICO CITY
OAXACA
MEXICO CITY
EXHIBITIONS 2016
PORTLAND
HOUSTON
MEXICO CITY
CHICAGO
SILVER CITY, NM
PARTIAL SHOWS
We also had partial shows, featuring the prints from from one point of the triangle, in venues related to that point:
TUCSON
EL PASO in AUSTIN
ALBUQUERQUE
Plus our custom boxed portfolio carpeta set found its way into 7 collections.
The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta is part of the following collections:
- Juan Sandoval Collection
- El Paso Museum of Art
- University of Arizona Museum of Art
- El Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita, in Pátzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico
- Mexic-Arte Museum
- Tucson Museum of Art (pending)
- University of Texas at San Antonio, Library Special Collections
PERIPHERAL PRINT ACTIVITY
There was a lot of peripheral activity happened around the Desert Triangle.
We were extremely fortunate to work with Augment El Paso, as David Figueroa and Robert Castaneda "augmented" 3 of our prints, when seen through the lens of an iPhone. That dazzled viewers and pushed prints into the 21st century. Again, thank you very much David and Robert!
HENRY BUILDS HIS PRESS
Albuquerque
Henry Morales built his own large press, to make his Desert Triangle print edition.
(and used skateboard wheels to roll the bed)
El Paso/Riverside
Deborah Cool-Flowers drove her etching press from El Paso, Texas, to Riverside, California to deliver it to Pavel Acevedo. Pavel then made his Desert Triangle edition on this press.
Proper Printshop of El Paso put on weekly live printing events on Thursday nights through 2016 -- Art en Vivo -- and produced a portfolio of 52 prints
Portland, Oregon
Because of the Desert Triangle carpeta, we participated in the big SGCI print conference in Portland, March 30 -- April 2, 2016.
at the El Paso Museum of Art
Cynthia Evans gave relief print demonstrations for Spark Saturdays at the El Paso Museum of Art --
April 9th, 2016 (with Marcus Robiason), and May 14th (with Alexis Ruiz).
downtown El Paso
Arturo Negrete from Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City, did live silk screening during the re-opening of San Jacinto Plaza in downtown El Paso -- April 16, 2016 -- giving away the prints to the public for free:
Modern Art Blitz
Pavel Acevedo interview, Los Angeles
El Paso
Manuel Guerra announced his Horned Toad Print Exchange II, due 2017. It might be said that all this print fever started when Manuel Guerra was rounding us up for print exchanges as far back as 2013. In Tucson we copied the format of the first Horned Toad Print Exchange to make the YayBig Print Exchange in 2014. Later many of us participated in the Print Zero Print Exchange #9 of Seattle, after going to the SGCI 2016 print conference in Portland.
TUCSON PRINT MEET-UP
Marcus Robiason has been holding print meet-ups on Tuesday nights at the Pleasure World studio and gallery space, in downtown Tucson. They are printing relief and drypoint prints on a Baby Press.
working on the Baby Press
in Marcus' studio
Glenn Buack created this drypoint masterpiece
by scratching into acrylic plastic,
at the Tucson Print Meet-up
Tucson
Tanline printmaking studio of Tucson opened a retail outlet in September, on 4th Avenue -- Tiny Town -- (between downtown and the University of Arizona) to sell print related merchandise (The Tucson Community Print Shop, inside of Tanline, produced 4 of our Desert Triangle print editions).
The printmaking studios have always been as much a part of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta as the prints themselves.
El Paso
Proper Printshop in El Paso has been doing live silk screening events every Thursday night in 2016 -- Art en Vivo -- creating 52 print editions of 12 x 18 inches. Such as on September 1st, and December 1st.
New Grounds Print Workshop
Albuquerque
Regina Held sold New Grounds Print Workshop in Albuquerque to 4 new owners, to continue the tradition of quality.
TUCSON COMMUNITY PRINT SHOP
Tucson
The Tucson Community Print Shop has moved to a different location in South Tucson, having been absorbed by Tanline Printing, both run by Jeik and Amanda. Along with Ellen and Axel, they also opened a retail store on 4th Avenue -- Tiny Town -- to sell prints.
The new Tanline/Tucson Community Print Shop
in South Tucson,
with mural by Igloo
MARTIN QUINTANILLA
Tucson
In September, Martin Quintanilla received a large press from Gatorno, made in Oaxaca, Mexico.
LA CEIBA GRÁFICA
Veracruz
The next year (summer 2016) we sent Francisco Delgado to La Ceiba Gráfica to make a couple of lithography editions.
"American Graffiti II"
Lithography print by Francisco Delgado
We are sending Francisco Delgado to Flatbed Press in Austin in January 2017, to make an edition there.
TALLER GRÁFICA LIBRE
Oaxaca
Francisco Delgado made his Desert Triangle print at Taller Gráfica Libre in Oaxaca.
Adrián Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas
run the Taller de Grafica Libre studio
in Oaxaca
Toru Sugita is now creating a print edition at Taller Gráfica Libre in Oaxaca. We met Toru at the SGCI print conference in Portland last March. He used to figure draw with Krrrl at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco in the 1990's.
TALLER 75 GRADOS
Mexico City
Arturo Negrete is now using a new positive film printing machine, to make "chulada" print editions even more efficiently! Taller 75 Grados is a force of nature that continues to push serigraphy, dazzle, and exceed expectations.
RELATED EXHIBITIONS
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
YayBig Southwest Collection
November 2015
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
YayBig Southwest Collection
November 2015
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, MEXICO
YayBig Print Exchange
January - March 2016
LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO
PRINT, PRINTED, PRINTING Conference
February 13 - March 20, 2016
PRINT, PRINTED, PRINTING Conference
February 13 - March 20, 2016
EL PASO
DESSERT TRIANGLE
May 19 - June 3
May 19 - June 3
ALBUQUERQUE
MEXTAPOZ
November, 2016
Print shows coming up:
- Exhibition at the Purple Gallery in El Paso, Feb 23rd opening
- South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque, April 20 - June 2nd
Meanwhile the Desert Triangle artists continue to create in a frenzy:
Rudy Flores'
on view in January 2017
The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta is not finished. We have an exhibition scheduled at Mexic-Arte in Austin for April, 2018. We still have aspirations for showing the carpeta overseas. We expect and encourage other printmaking surges in the Southwest, and look forward to seeing what happens in the upcoming years.
Who knows, maybe we should be showing prints at Art Basel in Miami; or the Satellite Art show and/or the Underground Truck U O T R A S show, going on at the same time in Miami. Tanya Rich visited Art Basel Miami this year (2016).
Looking ahead:
Print Challenge: I am imagining smaller exhibitions between cities. If Albuquerque produced 5 prints, and El Paso produced 5 prints -- that could turn out to be a nice exhibition of 10 prints, shown at coffee houses or pop-ups in both cities.
Also I can imagine an Etsy print show. There is a lot of good, reasonable priced prints on Etsy. This is the 21st century, after all.
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