Desert Triangle Print Carpeta: 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.