Enrique Flores and PRINT SANTA FE

PRINT SANTA FE is going on during the month of April, 2023:

ENRIQUE FLORES came up from Oaxaca for PRINT SANTA FE and for both and exhibition and talk at HECHO GALLERY in Santa Fe:

OPENING

Enrique Flores at his opening

in Hecho Gallery in Santa Fe

Enrique Flores and me

Enrique Flores' print

of the 43 missing students

• My personal print journey started when Tanya and I went to Oaxaca in 2014.  It's been non-stop ever since, currently culminating in our US/Mexican print exchange "Ambos Lados"

TALK

Enrique Flores also gave a talk at HECHO GALERY on Saturday, April 8, 2023, which was posted on Instagram:

Frank Rose, director of HECHO Gallery

introducing Enrique Flores 

to begin the talk

Enrique Flores talking about his prints in Spanish

(the interpreter is in the middle)

Article in Pasatiempo

from the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper

Workshop

Enrique Flores made a print at Ron Pokrasso's studio while he is in Santa Fe.  Thanks to Julianna Kirwin for sending me these pictures:

Ron Pokrasso

printing for Enrique Flores

MONOTHON

PRINT SANTA FE revived the MONOTHON for a week, April 1 - April 8, 2023 in six different print shops. I visited the MONOTHON at the print shop of the Santa Fe Community College on April 8th.  

Mike Kimball (with coffee)

running the Monothon at the Santa Fe Community College

Tons of color

Wiping out ink from a glass plate

(before adding different colors to the design?)

All the MONOTHON prints will be on display at the Santa Fe Community Gallery from April 22 to May 26, 2023

 

In the next room Stan Berning was making a monoprint.  

Stan Berning is having an Open House for PRINT SANTA FE on April 29th, 2023, from 1 - 5:30 PM.

Earlier in the week (April 4) I visited Black Rock Editions, where Timothy Nero was making a print for the MONOTHON, assisted by Joshua Orsburn:

Timothy Nero

making a monoprint at Black Rock Editions

Both Stan Berning and Timothy Nero have drawn with us at Argos Studio/Gallery before the pandemic.

I also took the Relief Printmaking Workshop with Tim Pauszek on April 7 2023, which was part of PRINT SANTA FE:

Relief Print Workshop

with Tim Pauszek

MOBILE ART

(Aside)

I also parked next to Stan Berning's "Art Box"van in the parking lot.  

Stan Berning's "Art Box"

I love the idea of mobile art studios and galleries.  Last summer of 2022 we showed prints in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van:

We showed prints in 2022

in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van

I have been using my Honda Fit as a portable art studio, sorta, since I bought it in 2008.  Below are pictures I posted from Slaton, Texas (just outside of Lubbock,home of Bobby Keys, saxophonist for the Rolling Stones) with my portable paint set up:

My make-shift paint "easel"

slipped easily into my Honda Fit,

picture taken in Slaton, Texas

Painting set-up on my Honda Tardis

• My Honda Fit is a Tardis, as it is bigger on the inside than on the outside

These days I have shrunk down even further to be more mobile, from a Honda Tardis to an Art Bucket.  I can carry up to 13 small framed prints in this Igloo bucket -- BUCKET EXHIBITIONS -- and have print pop-up exhibitions in small venues, on the fly.

The mobile BUCKET EXHIBITIONS concept

Contemplating a BUCKET EXHIBITION at the Santa Fe Community College:

• Krrrl AI  (Albuquerque)
• Joe Marshall  (Tucson)
• Pavel Acevedo  (Riverside, California)
• Rex Barron  (Albuquerque)
• Barbara Endicott  (Albuquerque)

• Jesse Wood   (Santa Fe)
• Rogo  (Tucson)
• Henry Morales  (Albuquerque)
• Greta Young  (Santa Fe)
• Sarah Parker  (Taos)
• Mike Kimball  (Santa Fe)
• Virgil Velasco  (Albuquerque)
• Cody Kamrowski  (Albuquerque)