SUMMARY 2019

HINDSIGHT ON THE EVE OF 2020

2019 marks three years since I firmly settled back in Albuquerque, and almost 10 years since I started this blog (March 10, 2010).  It's time to look back, first at 2019, and then at what I've done in the past decade.  Click on the photos or text below, for more robust information.

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EXHIBITIONS

Exhibitions of 2019

EVENTS

Events of 2019

BEST DRAWINGS OF 2019

BEST AI Drawings

Best AI Drawings: PART 1

Best AI Drawings: PART 2

BEST LONG POSES

Best Long Poses

BEST SHORT POSE Drawings

Best Short Pose Drawings: PART 1

Best Short Pose Drawings: PART 2

BEST GESTURE Drawings

Best Gesture Drawings: PART 1

Best Gesture Drawings: PART 2

BEST ABSTRACT LEANING Drawings

Best Abstract Leaning Drawings

Note: There are certainly other drawings that should have made the best lists, and might have had I choosen them on a different day, in a different mood.

 PREVIOUS DRAWINGS

I wonder if my drawing skilss have improved over the past decade.  Below are links to last year's best drawings (2018), the book I self-published of the best drawings of the previous six years (2011-2017), and the book I self published of earlier drawings (2008).

Best of 2018

My book of drawings

2011 -- 2017

Book of my drawings

published in 2008

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS

of the last decade

I have had a big hand in organizing several exhibiting print portfolios and three sculpture exhibitions since 2013.

Ambos Lados

International Print Exchange

2018- Present

Ambos Lados was organized on both sides of the border --

by Manuel Guerra and Horned Toad Prints in El Paso,

and by Taller Grafica Libre in Oaxaca.

I made a big effort by producing the catalog and setting up exhibitions

 DESERT TRIANGLE

PRINT CARPETA

2015 - Present

I organized the Desert Triangle project

HORNED TOAD II

PRINT EXCHANGE

2017 - 2019

Manuel Guerra organized the Horned Toad II Print Exchange,

and I supported him by making a catalog and organizing exhibitions

YAYBIG PRINT EXCHANGE

2014 - 2017

Joe Marshall organized the YayBig Print Exchange,

and I supported him by producing a catalog and organizing exhibitions

TUCSON SCULPTURE FESTIVAL 

2015

Tanya Rich organized the 2015 Tucson Sculpture Festival,

sponsored by The Drawing Studio, 

and I supported by producing a catalog and other support

TUCSON SCULPTURE FESTIVAL

2014

Tanya Rich organized the 2014 Tucson Sculpture Festival,

sponsored by BICAS, 

and I supported by producing a catalog and other support

TUCSON SCULPTURE FESTIVAL 

2013

I organized the 2013 Tucson Sculpture Festival (4th Annual)

CONCLUSION

I have been really busy drawing, making catalogs, and organizing exhibitions in the last decade, right through the last three years since I set roots again in Albuquerque.   I could barely keep up with 2019, but it was a very rewarding year.  

We had a great print tour of Mexico

in the summer of 2019

At the moment I'm very overwhelmed with AI (artificial intelligence) and Instagram, and am wondering how to go forward with art in 2020.

2019 was a very busy year,

as Manuel Guerra states at the end of the Southwest Print Fiesta

I may have to start drawing on a tablet in 2020, like the Gaomon Pd1560.  I'm also pledging to start oil painting again, and continue etching.

INDEX

• SUMMARY 2019

• Exhibitions and other events of 2019
• AI Art Review
• AI Drawings (artificial intelligence) -- PART 1
• AI Drawings (artificial intelligence) -- PART 2
• Best Long poses of 2019
• Best Short pose drawings of 2019 -- PART 1
• Best Short pose drawings of 2019 -- PART 2
• Best Gestural drawings of 2019 -- PART 1
• Best Gestural drawings of 2019 -- PART 2
• Best Abstract-leaning drawings of 2019