PRINTS
We printed round linocuts, 4 inch diameter, on a real tortilla press:
Cody Kamrowski's "tortilla linocut" print
Ellie carved a linocut disc quickly, so that we could test the tortilla press:
Ellie did a quick test
Pressing
However her print did not come out very well, because the pressure was uneven. We played with the adjustments and got a better print. Henry Morales said that we would resolve the problem by laying a yoga mat down first, to cushion the print:
Her print did not come out so well,
the pressure was uneven
However Cody Kamrowski's second print
came out really well
We got the idea to use a REAL TORTILLA PRESS last year (2022) -- the ABUSA adjustable tortilla press from Amazon -- from Axle Contemporary, when Matthew pressed masa into linocuts to make REAL tortillas, and passed them out to eat:
We are preparing for the big "Print Off" next month, July 2023. Manuel Guerra of El Paso will take some linocut discs, at least five of which will be from New Mexico, and print with 3 Gatos Press on the streets of Guadalajara:
We had a "Print Off" on the streets of Guadalajara in 2019:
We will setting up in front of the CURRENTS Gallery. Below is a picture of the space on June 17th, for another market:
We will be showing/making prints
in this space in Santa Fe
In short, we are going to steal the linocut disc idea from 3 Gatos Press before they have their "Print Off" next month in Guadalajara. We will also be sending some of our linocut discs to Guadalajara for their "Print Off." Finally I plan to show mostly Mexican prints in Santa Fe next week on June 24th.
At Quelab I laser engraved some linocut discs to print, from an AI Art image:
Variations of laser engraving of the same zebra image,
the bottom three discs made for the real tortilla press
I originally generated the AI Art image on Midjourney
Meanwhile Manuel Guerra drove up from El Paso to see the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, where two of his prints are showing:
Julianna Kirwin also had a print hanging at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, for the opening of a different exhibition there that night -- "Aliento a Tequila y el Arte de Agave."
GERALD PETERS GALLERY
Manuel Guerra drove me up to Santa Fe for the opening at Gerald Peters Gallery for Tom Birkner:
CURRENTS NEW MEDIA
Grant and I drove up to Santa Fe to see the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA Festival on June 17th, 2023.
We didn't actually beam into the exhibition,
I was especially interested in the exhibitions of AI ART:
A few exhibits -- like SpamBots -- hit me harder after I walked away and thought about them for a bit:
from ITP at NYU
Adan Aga, from ITP at NYU, was born without a sense of smell, so he created an AI Smelling Machine -- ADNOSE:
Adan Aga next to his nose machine
(a reproduction of his nose)
One puts an item under the nose, the nostril takes a picture of it, searches that on Google Lens, and then uses ChatGPT to identify the smell -- printing out the description from the other nostril:
The printout describes the smell
On Friday night (June 17th) they were having a car show on the Santa Fe Plaza:
So I mixed the cars with other photos from the CURRENTS show until I got something satisfying, somewhat capturing the Santa Fe weekend:
I summed up the Santa Fe weekend
with this AI Art generation from Midjourney
- The new director of the El Paso Museum of Art is Edward Hayes Jr.
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