From Behind the Wall -- Mexican Prints in Albuquerque

From Behind the Wall -- 

Prints by Contemporary Mexican Maestros

We had a great opening last Friday, for the Mexican print exhibition at Remarque in Albuquerque (August 4th, 2017).

The exhibition runs through August 26th, open Friday and Saturdays, from 10 - 6 PM, and by appointment.

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to see all the prints in the exhibition

One of the huge windfalls of the Desert Triangle project was that we started working with, and relating to, the huge printmaking talent below the border. Almost half of our prints for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta were produced in Mexico.  Moreover, we have shown the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta in Mexico City, Oaxaca and Puebla.  And if we are lucky, that relationship between our artists, and the Mexican artists, will continue.

We are really proud to show some of the Mexican prints we collected since putting together the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta. 

I believe that artists in the US border states need to look south for inspiration, perhaps before looking west to LA and San Francisco, or east to New York.

During the middle of the opening, we also unpacked 3 Mexican carpetas (portfolios) for show:

• Oaxaca Collective (Carpeta Nacional de Estampa en Mexico)

• Carpeta: Gráfica Transfronteriza

• Student carpeta from the Taller de Artes Plasticas Rufiano Tamayo, in Oaxaca

Inspecting the Oaxaca Carpeta Nacional

From Instagram

From Instagram

Gallery hosts

Ren Adams and Matthew Barrett

We used "Poster Hangers by Jørgen Møller"

to hang the unframed prints

Jessica Krichels, one of the owners of Remarque Print Workshop, brought back 2 prints by Mexican women printmakers, from the studio of El Pinche Grabador in Guanajuato, especially for this exhibition:

Jainite Silvestre

"Guardinia Nocturna"
Mezzotint

Nayelli Ceballos Gerente

"Protector de la Cosecha"

Relief print

We agree with Glasstire, that if you are an art lover -- You Should Go to Mexico.  It's very accessible to the US border states.

In the adjacent gallery at Remarque, was a painting show by Michelle Sharp:

Paintings by Michelle Sharp

Michelle Sharp

(in black dress towards right)

Also our friend John Paul Gutierrez had an opening down the street, at Stranger Factory that night:

John Paul Gutierrez

at Stranger Factory

And the New Mexico Art League is also showing prints in Albuquerque -- Limited Edition (July 18 - August 19, 2017).  Review of the exhibition in the Albuquerque Journal by Wesley Pollka (August 6, 2017).

This dry point by Dennis Liberty was featured in the exhibition:

Dennis Liberty

"Spiritus, Mundi, La Bajada"

Dry point