Proper Printshop of El Paso, donated all 52 prints they pulled last year in El Paso, during the "Art en Vivo" live printing events, to the El Paso Museum of Art. They had a live printing event at the El Paso Museum of Art during the Last Thursday Artwalk, June 29, 2017, 6 - 8 pm. A selection of the framed "Art en Vivo" prints were also on display.
Great event at the El Paso Museum of Art, with live printing by Proper Printshop, during Last Thursday, June 29, 2017.
People line up for the live printing,
to receive a print by Atenas JFC
Live printing
Proper Printshop was live printing an image by Atenas JFC, of the Jellyfish Colectivo.
Atenas JFC
of the Jellyfish Colectivo
with her print
standing next to his print
A selection of prints
from 52 in the Proper "Art en Vivo" Carpeta
were exhibited in a small room
on the first floor of the El Paso Museum of Art
Also, congratulations to the new director of the El Paso Museum of Art -- Victoria Ramirez -- who was also at the event.
OTHER EVENTS
Los Dos exhibition at the Rubin Center
Los Dos from the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, will be showing at the Rubin Center Art Gallery on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso -- "Pásele, Pásele" -- opening Thursday, June 29, 2017, 5- 7:30 pm.
Lxs Dos
Ramon (left) and Christian (right) Cardenas,
standing below their huge mural
at the Rubin Center at UTEP
Jellyfish and Yorch Exhibition in Ciudad Juarez
Both Ciudad Juarez artists in the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta -- Jellyfish and Yorch --participated in a greater collaborative art piece with Swiss artist Marc Kuhn. This piece was shown at the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez at an opening on Friday, June 30, 2017, along with collaborative art pieces done in Tepito and La Esmeralda, among other places in Mexico. This project -- "Col Art" -- has been going on all over the world since 1968.
Swiss artist Marc Kuhn started Col-Art in 1968
stands in front of the collaborative piece
he worked on
stands in front of the collaborative piece he worked on
Francisco Delgado at Art Avenue
for the Flatbed Book Signing
The previous Thursday (June 22), Art Avenue had a book signing event for Flatbed Press, the big print shop and print publishers of Austin, Texas. They were highlighting artists with El Paso connections that had printed at Flatbed -- Luis Jimenez, Alice Leora Briggs, Ricky Armendariz, Celia Muñoz , and Suzi Davidoff.
Francisco Delgado,of the Desert Triangle Carpeta, recently made lithograph prints at Flatbed Press in Austin, but after the book was published. May we continue to send El Paso artists to do fine art prints at Flatbed Press, because El Paso has talent!
Francisco Delgado (left)
and Richard Armendariz (right)
who does have prints in the Flatbed book
Nomu Cafe
print show
We hung some of the prints from the El Paso and Albuquerque print exhibitions, at the Nomu Cafe, adjacent to FabLab El Paso, in the Artspace building.
Prints from Jaycee Beyale ("Psychedelia"), Smithe and Seher collaboration,
Elmer Sosa, and Wil Taylor ("Ride)
Prints from Yorch ("Over Bridges"), Matthew Poe,
and Omar Gonzalez ("There You Are")
SAN ANTONIO
Juan de Dios Mora
We showed a print by Juan de Dios Mora, of San Antonio, in our recent exhibitions in El Paso and Albuquerque. He has a solo show at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio -- Culture Clash -- running from June 8 - August 13, 20, 2017.
Glasstire gave a good review of the exhibition.
Glasstire gave a good review of the exhibition.
Juan de Dios Mora at the McNay
La Printeria
La Printeria
While in San Antonio, I visited Harvey Mireles of La Printeria, a serigraph and printmaking studio. He has been working with Arturo Negrete of Taller 75 Grados in Mexico City.
Harvey Mireles of La Printeria
in San Antonio
La Printeria 75 Grados also has a gallery at the Freight Gallery and Studios, in the Lone Star Arts District (we did a pop-up print show there in 2015), which comes to life during the Second Saturday Artwalks in San Antonio. I checked it out on July 8, 2017:
Wall of prints at La Printeria 75,
gallery in San Antonio,
artwalk July 8, 2017
Lots of visitors came to La Printeria 75
during the artwalk
Horned Toad Print Exchange II
Meanwhile all 53 prints have arrived for the second Horned Toad Print Exchange, organized by Manuel Guerra of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta. He is in the process of making a catalog of the prints, and setting up future print shows. The print fever marches on!
