FLATBED PRESS
Francisco Delgado continues with the desert momentum, by creating another lithograph at Flatbed Press of Austin, Texas, in early January.
Litho proof
Master printer Veronic Ceci
giving the thumbs up to Francisco's print
Litho stone
Luis Jimenez
lithograph print
done at Flatbed Press
Print Austin happens from Jan 15 - Feb 15 in 2017.
Francisco's print was hung in the gallery at Flatbed, in the same space as one of Luis Jimenez's prints:
Flatbed gallery
with prints by both
Francisco Delgado and Luis Jimenez
Also, Flatbed Press brought Francisco's lithograph to the Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, April 1st and 2nd, 2017 -- at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
LA CEIBA GRAFICA
Last August (2016) Francisco Delgado created a lithograph at La Ceiba Grafica, in Veracruz, Mexico. where Manuel Guerra made his Desert Triangle print edition.
The lithograph that Francisco made
at La Ceiba Grafica in Veracruz, Mexico
Francisco Delgado, Per Anderson, and printer
Josie working on the litho stone
Per Anderson working on the print
Marina Monsisvais of KTEP interviewed Francisco Delgado about his lithography printmaking experiences, on the State of the Arts radio program. Aired on Feb 18th, 2017.
TALLER GRAFICA LIBRE
In July of 2015, Francisco Delgado created a linoleum cut edition in Oaxaca, at Taller Grafica Libre, for the Desert Triangle (where Toru Sugita recently created 2 intaglio prints).
While in Oaxaca Francisco also participated in the Grafica Transfronteriza Carpeta:
Francisco also painted the mural on the side of the Sagrado Corazon church in El Paso. Below is a detail, before the mural was restored, of frequent visitor Pancho Villa eating Chico's Tacos.
UPDATE: June 22, 2017
Francisco Delgado showed up to the Art Avenue for the Flatbed Press book signing in El Paso, even though he created his masterpiece after the catalog came out. 3 of the artists in the book came to the opening, all with El Paso connections.
Francisco Delgado (left)
and Richard Armendariz (right)
who does have prints in the Flatbed book
UPDATE: July 6, 2017 -- I dropped into Flatbed Press in Austin, and saw 2 of Francisco's lithographs on view in the "New Editions 2016 - 2017" exhibition:
Small print by Francisco,
not yet editioned
Stone for the above print
Update: Francisco took his high school class from El Paso, on a tour of Flatbed Press, during the last week of April, 2018
Francisco's class,
getting a Flatbed tour,
by director Katherine Brimberry
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