Desert Triangle Print Carpeta: May 2019

Summary -- Printmakers Updates

The Desert Triangle artists have been very active since the first major exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art in 2016. It took 3 blog entries to try to describe their progress, and of course we left a lot out.

Printmakers Update 2019 -- Part 1

Printmakers Update 2019 -- Part 2

Printmakers Update 2019 -- Part 3

Printmakers Update -- Part 1

Printmakers Update -- Part 2

Printmakers Update -- Part 3

Moreover the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta continues to show. The next scheduled exhibition is at the Las Cruces Museum of Art in New Meixco, opening November 1st, and lasting until January 2020.

The Las Cruces Museum of Art,

where the Desert Triangle will be in November 2019

We are almost 5 years away from the conception of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, at the 2014 Chalk the Block print exchanges exhibition. A lot has happened since then, while the artists have all spread out, to work on bigger and better things. That turns the Desert Triangle into a slice of history, of what people were thinking about around 2016.

Highlights of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

¡SALUD!

Manuel Guerra celebrating in Oaxaca

with high octane mezcal

Tanya Rich transfixed at INK Miami Art Fair,

during Art Base1 2018

in front of the Robert Longo lithographs

Printmakers Update 2019 -- Part 3

This is the third look at what some of the Desert Triangle printmakers have done recently.

TANYA RICH

Tanya Rich went down to Habana, Cuba with Krrrl to create a print with Octavio Irving in 2018, for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.

Tanya Rich in Habana

Krrrl, Tanya, Beti, and Octavio Irving

in Octavio's studio in Habana, Cuba

Tanya Rich created her Ambos Lados print edition

with the help of Octavio Irving,

in his studio in Habana, Cuba

AMBOS LADOS

INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXCHANGE

MANUEL GUERRA

Manuel Guerra of Horned Toad Prints, teamed up with Taller Grafica Libre in Zaachila, Oaxaca, to produce the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange. Ultimately they received 158 print editions: 80 from the US, 72 from Mexico, two from Cuba, two from Australia, one from Canada and one from Ireland.

Many Desert Triangle artists participated: Manuel Guerra, Francisco Delgado, Raul Monarrez, Victor Muheddine, Pavel Acevedo, Henry Morales, Gonzalo Espinosa, Tanya Rich, and Krrrl.

Catalog forthcoming

The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange's debut exhibition was during the big SGCI 2019 print conference of Dallas/North Texas. Ambos Lados showed at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Famous printmaker Tom Huck (second from left) at SGCI in Dallas,

with Horned Toad Prints --

Francisco Delgado (l), Manuel Guerra, and Raul Monarrez

Ambos Lados article in Fusion Magazine #109 (March 2019)

of El Paso, Marfa, and Chihuahua City

Krrrl flew down to Oaxaca in March 2019, to deliver the last of the print packages to the artists in Oaxaca.

Oaxaca City!!!

The moto-taxi driver in Zaachila, Oaxaca,

holds the bag of prints

to be delivered to Taller Grafica Libre

for redistribution

The printmakers in Oaxaca

begin to receive their prints --

each participant delivered an edition of 12 prints,

and received 10 different prints in return

I was preceded by some non-printmakers

in the Vente a Veinte cantina in Oaxaca City

ZEKE PEÑA

I saw Zeke Peña's drawings plastered all over the city of Oaxaca in March, as they were presenting the book he illustrated -- Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide -- at the Biblioteca Henestrosa on April 6, 2019 (although Zeke was not there).

Zeke's drawings were pasted all over the city of Oaxaca

Zeke with the author Isabel Quintero,

presenting the book they created about Graciela Iturbide

at the El Paso Museum of Art in April, 2018

The list of activities at the Biblioteca Henestrosa in Oaxaca,

prominently featuring Zeke's drawing

Zeke Peña is very active, so we can only touch on some of the other projects he has been working on.

Zeke had an exhibition in 2016

at the Chamizal National Monument Museum in El Paso

Zeke is also showing in the "Qué Chola"exhibition

at National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque,

along with Nanibah Chacon

MARTIN QUINTANILLA

Martin Quintanilla has opened his print gallery in Patzcuaro, Michoacan -- Microgallery Manibula -- and apparently oscillates between Mexico and Tucson these days.

Microgallery Manibula,

Martin's gallery in Patzcuaro, Mexico

Inside of Martin's gallery in Patzcuaro

RUBEN URREA MORENO

Ruben Urrea Moreno's Desert Triangle print was discovered hanging at the Tucson Museum of Art in 2018. Ruben is painting all the time, and we get to see a few of the things he creates on his Instagram.

Ruben's Desert Triangle print in 2018

hanging at the Tucson Museum of Art

Ruben's work on Instagram

MICHAEL CONTRERAS

Michael Contreras is still running the Contreras Gallery in Tucson, in the 6th and 6th art district next to downtown.

Michael Contreras' print,

as the signature print for the 2018 Desert Triangle exhibition,

in Delray, Florida (near Miami)

Contreras Gallery in Tucson,
110 East 6th Street

MYKL WELLS

Mykl Wells created a huge cardboard sculpture -- Astronave -- for the 2016 Cartasia Lucca Biennale in Italy.

Perhaps this is not the best photo on Instagram,

but it's the best photo showing off the scale

of Mykl Well's cardboard sculpture masterpiece

Mykl Wells on Instagram

JOE MARSHALL

Joe Marshall continues to crank out the relief prints, and actively shows at Tiny Town Gallery on 4th Avenue in Tucson.

Tiny Town Gallery on 4th Avenue in Tucson

showing Joe Marshall's prints

Joe Marshall's new prints on Instagram

RUDY FLORES

Rudy Flores' print prominently represented the Desert Triangle at the University of Arizona Art Museum in 2017.

Rudy's Desert Triangle print in the University of Arizona Art Museum,

in the front, 2017

Rudy Flores' website

ROGO

We are keeping current with Rogo through his Instagram.

Rogo on Instagram

GONZALO ESPINOSA

Gonzalo Espinosa has moved to Puerto Vallarta, and is showing in many galleries there.

Paradise in Puerto Vallarta

Gonzalo at a presentation in Puerto Vallarta

Gonzalo is showing his work

in many galleries in Puerto Vallarta

Printmakers Update 2019 -- Part 1

Printmakers Update 2019 -- Part 2

Printmakers Update 2019 -- Part 3

Printmakers Update 2019 -- Part 2

This is the second look at what some of the Desert Triangle printmakers have done recently.

PAVEL ACEVEDO

Pavel Acevedo is hard to keep up with.

Mural at La Sierra University

in Riverside, California,

2019

Pavel working on a lithograph,

at the "Two Bit Press" studio

in Sierra University

“Utopia/Queen of hearts”

15”x11” . Linocut/paper

In a portfolio put together by Self Help Graphics of LA

“Dystopia/Two of red diamonds”

15”x11” . Linocut/paper

In a portfolio put together by Self Help Graphics of LA

"Carro plaletero" with student designed prints,

a project Pavel helped direct in LA,

as part of the "I Learn America"residency

Pavel gave a workshop to students at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center,

in Maryland, outside of Washington DC,

April 2019

Pavel gave a workshop to students at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center,

in Maryland, outside of Washington DC,

April 2019

"...(Pavel) mural collaboration with artist Kate Deciccio

for the event “We Rise” in the “Arts District” located in LA,

this exhibit opens on Friday 17 (May 2019)"

Mural in progress in downtown Riverside

Pavel and Fritz Aragón collaboration

NANIBAH CHACON

Nani Chacon's paintings are prominently featured in the "Qué Chola" exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, running from March 8 to August 4, 2019. Her Instagram shows that she is quiet busy.

National Hispanic Cultural Center

in Albuquerque

"Xicano Classic"

"The Letter"

"La Onda"

HENRY MORALES

Henry Morales always participates in the Day of the Dead festivities in Albuquerque, including the Marigold Parade in the South Valley.

Henry showing off his print-in-progress

at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque

during the Day of the Dead exhibit 2017

Henry live printing in 2017

as part of the Marigold Parade in the South Valley

Henry conducting a printmaking workshop in 2018

in the South Valley, before the Marigold Parade in

KRRRL

Krrrl, your blogger, has been experimenting widely. I received his sculpture collaboration with Daniel Hornung from Metalphysic foundry in Tucson. I emailed one of his small newsprint figure drawings to China, and received a painting. I also have been experimenting with online AI programs, that alter my drawings. All these projects started from one of the drawings in his self-published book -- "Finish My Figure Drawings."