We showed selected prints from the Desert Triangle
in the 4th Open Portfolio session
Previous SGCI Portland entries:
Open Portfolio
was a print mosh pit!
Manuel Guerra showed his prints,
and a few from the Desert Triangle,
at the second Open Portfolio session
Manuel makes a sale!
Kathryn Polk and Andy Polk,
of Tucson,
were showing at Open Portfolio
Toru Sugita at Open Portfolio.
He is a printmaker from San Francisco.
We have exhibited his prints in
Printmaker from the University of Wyoming,
at Open Portfolio,
who was also at the print conference
at Highlands University (New Mexico)
Tom Huck with Manuel Guerra
Gustavo Mora, printmaker from Puebla,
with Manuel Guerra
Young printmaker Andrew from TANA in Open Portfolio
David Jones, the president of SGCI,
looking at our augmented reality
The SGCI Portland print exchange
The SGCI Portland print exchange
We took a field trip to Gamblin Artists Colors
paint factory
During the Gamblin demonstration
they were making a batch of black printing ink
on a three roller mill
Seeing Mr Gamblin again
was one of my personal highlights of the whole conference.
He accepted our print catalog
Tanya enjoyed the open house
at Flight 64
the community print shop in Portland
We bought several prints from
from Flight 64
We bought a couple of prints
(but not this great one)
from Roger Peet at Flight 64
who is associated with Just Seeds print collective
- Leslie Dorcus
- Ali Cat Leeds
- Ye Young Kim
- Noelle Barce
- Brie Thompson
- Jave Yoshimoto
(Note: We are already framing and planning to show many of the Flight 64 prints alongside the Desert Triangle, in Tucson)
We saw one of Tom Huck's huge prints
at a print exhibition
in a different gallery, removed from downtown
Detail of Tom Huck's print
Rogo gets a little love
on the SGCI Portland Tumblr
I loved scrolling through Instagram
(through a third party viewer)
to relive all the prints we saw in Portland,
and discover the ones we missed
(originally from Juarez)
speaking at the conference
during the "Nexus: Convergence of Contemporary Matrices" talk
from ASU
speaking at the conference
on his themed portfolio exhibition
We gave out almost 100 Desert Triangle Print Carpeta catalogs, to printmakers from all over the country, and even to a few on different continents.
We also met Brian Lane, from Print Zero Studios in Seattle. He had a themed exhibition at SGCI --Dreamscapes: The Ebb and Flow of Time and Possibility. However, we discovered (and bought) the catalogs of his Print Zero print exchanges on Lulu, long ago; after we self-published a catalog of our print exchanges on Lulu.
We also met Ricardo X. Serment of Instituto Grafica de Chicago.
Lastly, we had a great time at SGCI Portland. The conference exceeded my expectations, and the printmakers humbled us with a huge variety of fine prints. Moreover, a kind of euphoria prevailed, as everyone was so pleasant and enthusiastic. I would definitely recommend this conference to any printmaker thinking about going to the next conference. Well done Portland!
