Monday, January 29, 2018

The Road Goes on Forever...Print Austin

Just as Robert Earl Keen prophesized-- The Road Goes on Forever, and the Party Never Ends...


Our exhibition at Mexic-Arte is part of the bigger PRINT AUSTIN month.  The print shows continue, and we are checking out as many as we can...

January 27

PrintAustin Invitational: Flux  -- straddling traditional and contemporary print approaches

curated the exhibition


Austin


San Antonio,
serigraph


from the Netherlands
serigraph


from the Netherlands
serigraph


from the Netherlands
serigraph


January 28

Panel Discussion: Print Futures-- panel discussion by 5 artists: Dr. Paul Laidler, Lari Gibbons, R. Eric McMaster, Evelyn Contreras, moderated by UT Professor Jason Urban


Introduction to the panel discussion,
by UT Professor Jason Urban



Graduate student Evelyn Contreras
talking about her work



January 30

I went to see 3 print shows on the campus of the University of Texas, all of which opened on the same night as our Desert Triangle exhibition at Mexic-Arte.

Two exhibits were in the Visual Arts Center, in the University of Texas Art Buildling:




Just Press Print -- note, we went to 2 previous lectures regarding this exhibit. One by Dr Paul Laidler, on January 23rd.  And the Print Futures lecture (see above) on January 28th.








laser cut board and pieces




Gold Tape  -- by UT students



Zine Screen


"Oceanscape"
serigraph


"New Man"
Henry Smith
multimedia



Blowout XIII: Annual Juried UT Austin Student Print Exhibition

"Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls"
Maria Ramirez
serigraph


"Growth"
serigraph


"Spectacle"
Aaron Yuhas
Intaglio


"Should We Rock the Betsy Johnson
or Stick with the Classic Comme des Garcon"
Intaglio


February 1

I went to see some PRINT AUSTIN exhibits, though I missed the openings:

The exhibition below
was at the Pump Project


Call & Respond: Works By Andrew Blanchard & Jonas Criscoe











The galleries below were at Canopy Austin:


Kowboyz And Monsters  -- prints by Carlos Hernandez and the Amazing Hancock Brothers




This print by the Amazing Hancock Brothers
has an affinity with the work of the late


I ran into Carlos Hernandez (right)
Seen here with Elvia Perrin,
the co-founder of PRINT AUSTIN


PRINT AUSTIN Trade Portfolio  -- print exchange





Previously I bought a print from 
and then had the pleasure of meeting her in San Antonio











Solar  -- at the Art Science Gallery



cyanotype, rice paper, cloth, foil stamp, letterpress


Julie Covington
intaglio-KM plate


cyanotype


A few of the art spaces were being crunched by rising rents, a familiar story.


Revi Meicler  -- at Wally Workman Gallery





We were pleased and surprised to find a print by Kathryn Polk in the Wally Workman gallery.  She apparently judged a PRINT AUSTIN 2015 show.




Group Show: Curated By Amanda McInerney  -- at ASPCO, Artist Screen Printing Cooperative

Charles Hancock and Karolina,
she was hosting the reception




Artist and curator Richard Littlefield,
saw our Desert Triangle show in Patzcuaro


Charles Hancock (of the Amazing Hancock Brothers)
stand in front of their collaboration print


Collaboration by 
Charles Hancock and Louise Bova






February 5

Women Printmakers Of Austin Member Show





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