Chris Bardey

"Rogues' Gallery: Artists vs Robots"

Chris Bardey from Las Cruces working on his print at his home:

He started by carving a relief print

Chris Bardey in the print studio

of New Mexico State University,

where he taught in 2015

The relief cuts

in puzzle pieces

The relief pieces
printed out on transparency paper (one sheet for each color)
on presses at the New Mexico State University print shop,
to be burned on silk screens.

The final piece was a 3 color serigraph, at Proper Printshop in El Paso.

Chris signing his edition
at Proper Printshop in El Paso

Chris Bardey
is one of the people running 
the West End Art Depot in Las Cruces,
where we had a pop-up print show in 2014

Delivery to El Paso

We delivered most of the framed prints to the El Paso Museum of Art, for a show next year -- from January 31 to May 22.

The prints were framed at New Grounds Print Workshop in Albuquerque.

Federico Villaba, co-agitator, contemplates in front of New Grounds.
He helped drive the prints down to El Paso.

 Tight Honda Fit

boxed prints at the El Paso Museum of Art

ready to be unloaded

 4 Boxes fit in sideways,

from the door (not through the hatch)

 On painting carts

in the loading dock

24 framed prints unboxed

The prints were delivered 17 Dec, 2015.

We are still missing a box of 6 prints.  Ultimately the exhibit should include 30 prints.

Update:  We delivered 5 more framed prints on January 7th, 2016.  Plus we switched out Matthew Poe's print with a cream mat, for one with a white mat:

Last print delivered January 20th:

Update (Sept 2016):  This is how I packaged the glass framed prints for the El Paso Museum exhibition, when I took them down from the Matrix Gallery show in Albuquerque:

6 prints fit in one cardboard box

Prints were enclosed in bubble wrap,

and fitted with protective corners 

2 prints in one bubble wrapped package,

face to face,

with a piece of cardboard in between

2 prints, face to face, in bubble wrap,

with cardboard protective corners

Nani Chacon

"+++"
(three crosses)

Nani Chacon of Albuquerque had her print edition silkscreened at Proper Printshop in El Paso:

Nani Chacon

and Jonathan “JJ” Childress (co-owener of Proper Printshop)

hold up her print

Alan Hodson and JJ,

owners of Proper Printshop,

double team a squeegee,

as Eduardo looks on

Zeke Pena helped Nani with her print

(Zeke also made a print for the Desert Carpeta)

Nani signing the print edition
in her house

Mural by Nani

Nani painted a mural in Santa Fe,

in the outdoor park of the

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Nani Chacon video