Sunday, June 25, 2017

"Art en Vivo" Carpeta

Proper Printshop of El Paso, donated all 52 prints they pulled last year in El Paso, during the "Art en Vivo" live printing events, to the El Paso Museum of Art.  They had a live printing event at the El Paso Museum of Art during the Last Thursday Artwalk, June 29, 2017, 6 - 8 pm.  A selection of the framed "Art en Vivo" prints were also on display.





Marina Monsisvais interviews JJ Childress of Proper Printshop, about this project, on KTEP:




Great event at the El Paso Museum of Art, with live printing by Proper Printshop, during Last Thursday, June 29, 2017.

People line up for the live printing, 
to receive a print by Atenas JFC


Live printing


Proper Printshop was live printing an image by Atenas JFC, of the Jellyfish Colectivo.

Atenas JFC
with her print


standing next to his print


A selection of prints 
from 52 in the Proper "Art en Vivo" Carpeta
were exhibited in a small room 
on the first floor of the El Paso Museum of Art




Also, congratulations to the new director of the El Paso Museum of Art -- Victoria Ramirez -- who was also at the event.


OTHER EVENTS

Los Dos exhibition at the Rubin Center


Los Dos from the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, will be showing at the Rubin Center Art Gallery on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso -- "Pásele, Pásele" -- opening Thursday, June 29, 2017,  5- 7:30 pm.

"Pásele, Pásele presents the work of husband and wife duo Christian and Ramon Cardenas who together form the artist collaborative Lxs Dos."







Lxs Dos
Ramon (left) and Christian (right) Cardenas,
standing below their huge mural
at the Rubin Center at UTEP


View from the top






Jellyfish and Yorch Exhibition in Ciudad Juarez

Both Ciudad Juarez artists in the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta -- Jellyfish and Yorch --participated in a greater collaborative art piece with Swiss artist Marc Kuhn.  This piece was shown at the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez at an opening on Friday, June 30, 2017, along with collaborative art pieces done in Tepito and La Esmeralda, among other places in Mexico.  This project -- "Col Art" -- has been going on all over the world since 1968.



Swiss artist Marc Kuhn started Col-Art in 1968


stands in front of the collaborative piece
he worked on


stands in front of the collaborative piece he worked on



Francisco Delgado at Art Avenue
for the Flatbed Book Signing

The previous Thursday (June 22), Art Avenue had a book signing event for Flatbed Press, the big print shop and print publishers of Austin, Texas.  They were highlighting artists with El Paso connections that had printed at Flatbed -- Luis Jimenez, Alice Leora Briggs, Ricky Armendariz, Celia Muñoz , and Suzi Davidoff.

Francisco Delgado,of the Desert Triangle Carpeta, recently made lithograph prints at Flatbed Press in Austin, but after the book was published.  May we continue to send El Paso artists to do fine art prints at Flatbed Press, because El Paso has talent!


Francisco Delgado (left)
and Richard Armendariz (right)
who does have prints in the Flatbed book


Nomu Cafe
print show

We hung some of the prints from the El Paso and Albuquerque print exhibitions, at the Nomu Cafe, adjacent to FabLab El Paso, in the Artspace building.



Prints from Jaycee Beyale ("Psychedelia"), Smithe and Seher collaboration, 
Elmer Sosa, and Wil Taylor ("Ride)



Prints from Yorch ("Over Bridges"), Matthew Poe, 
and Omar Gonzalez ("There You Are")



SAN ANTONIO

Juan de Dios Mora


We showed a print by Juan de Dios Mora, of San Antonio, in our recent exhibitions in El Paso and Albuquerque.  He has a solo show at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio -- Culture Clash -- running from June 8 - August 13, 20, 2017.

Glasstire gave a good review of the exhibition.


Juan de Dios Mora at the McNay


La Printeria

While in San Antonio, I visited Harvey Mireles of La Printeria, a serigraph and printmaking studio.  He has been working with Arturo Negrete of Taller 75 Grados in Mexico City.


Harvey Mireles of  La Printeria
in San Antonio


La Printeria 75 Grados also has a gallery at the Freight Gallery and Studios, in the Lone Star Arts District (we did a pop-up print show there in 2015), which comes to life during the Second Saturday Artwalks in San Antonio. I checked it out on July 8, 2017:

Wall of prints at La Printeria 75,
gallery in San Antonio,
artwalk July 8, 2017


Lots of visitors came to La Printeria 75
during the artwalk


Horned Toad Print Exchange II


Meanwhile all 53 prints have arrived for the second Horned Toad Print Exchange, organized by Manuel Guerra of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.  He is in the process of making a catalog of the prints, and setting up future print shows.  The print fever marches on!







Monday, May 22, 2017

Puebla en Mayo

Puebla is una Maravilla!



Thank you very much, Carolina Picazo and Jordan Lucero,
for putting on this exhibition!



A luchador points to his favorite print


Most of the prints from the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, and many from Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City, came together for a great exhibition at the Galeria Integrarte in Puebla, Mexico.  The opening was during the evening of May 13th, 2017.  The featured Mexican artist Jose Quintero, whose work we greatly admire, brought his latest serigraph edition for sale.


Artist Jose Quintero,


The freshly minted serigraphs for sale



The exhibition is at Galeria Integrate,
 and goes on for 2 weeks --



  


Jose Quintero drawing on Nava's white jacket


A big thanks to the Puebla printmakers who came out to our exhibition (L to R) --


A short talk





Christian Cardenas 
(part of Los Dos, which contributed to the Desert Triangle)
interviewed by Televisa Azteca in front of her print


Interviewed by journalists from Sintesis


Interview with Sintesis,








Manuel Tapia and Angelica Lopez
admiring a print




Arturo Negrete (in yellow)
consulting with vistor


Fidel and Manuel Tapia
stand in front of Jose Quintero's large print


(far left is Jordan Lucero,
who with Carolina Picazo,
put on the exhibition)





Relaxing at MUSA near the Zocalo,
before heading out to the opening  --



Galeria Integrarte




and some from Mexico City




at Museo Amparo and elsewhere





BONUS: MEXICO CITY MURALS

We can't help but post some of the fabulous street murals we saw passing through Mexico City on the way to Puebla: