KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: July Summary 2023

We were busy showing prints and drawings in the month of July 2023, and ended on a high note in Madrid, New Mexico:

MADRID OPENING

The Tuesday Night Drawing group of Santa Fe (at Argos Studio/Gallery) had a life drawing exhibition in Madrid, New Mexico at the Roadrunner Studio and Gallery, on July 29th and 30th, 2023:

The life drawing opening

from the Tuesday Night Drawing Group

Photos of the artists

in front of their life drawings

PRINT EXHBITIONS

The major challenge was keeping up with all the print exhibitions in July.

GUADALAJARA

Manuel Guerra took a few prints (including mine) from the 8x8 Show in El Paso last May, to show at the Galeria Sepia in Guadalajara on July 8, 2023. They also printed small round linocuts, some of which Manny took from the US, and others from Mexico. See Instagram post also:

Manuel Guerra and Tres Gatos Press

showing and making prints

at the 8x8 exhibition in Guadalajara

NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER

The reception for the "Nexo Entre Raices" exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque was on July 14th. It featured a panel discussion. Marco Sanchez organized the exhibition, as is speaking on the panel in the photo below:

Marco Sanchez speaking on the panel discussion on July 14th

at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque

about the exhibition he organized -- "Nexo Entre Racies"

EL PASO MUSEUM OF HISTORY

We had a great closing on July 15th for the Ambos Lados exhibition at the El Paso Museum of History. There was live printing of three kinds:

Aron Venegas printing on a REAL Tortilla Press
Vanessa Ramirez running a t-shirt printmaking workshop, using carved blocks made from motifs from selected Ambos Lados prints
Manuel Guerra and Tres Gatos Press live printing from a tianguis in Guadalajara, where they were live streaming from Instagram

Closing for the Ambos Lados exhibition on July 15th,

at the El Paso Museum of History

EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART

Marco Sanchez organized a PRINT PACHANGA of three parts:

Big 2' x 3' prints pulled at the El Paso Museum of Art (July 27th)
Print Vendor Market (July 27th and 28th)
Juried Print show at the Moonlight Adobe Hall in Socorro, New Mexico (July 29th)

Pulling big prints during the PRINT PACHANGA

at the El Paso Museum of Art

Joe Marshall of Tucson at the vendor fair

of the PRINT PACHANGA in El Paso

I did not go to the juried print show

I met the new director of the El Paso Museum of Art -- Edward Hayes Jr. -- at the Print Pachanga:

The new director of the El Paso Museum of Art

Edward Hayes Jr

MORE PRINTS

LASERING EVA FOAM

We used a portable laser cutter to cut EVA foam. Then we inked the cut foam and made prints:

Laser cutting EVA foam

Ellie inked and printed

from this laser cut EVA foam piece

BLOCK PARTY

Ellie Weadock gave a printmaking workshop -- the 2nd BLOCK PARTY -- at the North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque on July 22nd, 2023. The prints were hung at the North Fourth Art Center afterwards:

Exhibition of prints at the North Fouth Art Center

made at the second BLOCK PARTY

Second BLOCK PARTY

at the North Fourth Art Center

on July 22nd

The second BLOCK PARTY

at the North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque

on July 22, 2023

OPEN PRINT EXCHANGE

I received my 9 prints from the OPEN PRINT EXCHANGE which I submitted to at the beginning of this year:

I received my mini-prints

from the Open Print Exchange

SLIDESHOWS

I made two quick slideshows about printmaking for Manny to show in Guadalajara:

Laberinto de Estampas -- Print Exhibitions in the Southwest

8x8 Prints -- BUCKET EXHIBITIONS

AI ART

Midjourney added Zoom out features, so I altered and pushed one of my figure drawings as far as I could (and it looked nothing like my drawing):

AI Evolution of my drawing

I liked this Midjourney version

of my drawing

Another Midjourney version

of one of my drawings

EL PASO DRAW

The Tuesday night El Paso drawing group moved to a new location in downtown El Paso, and I drew there twice, on July 18th and July 25th, 2023:

The new drawing location

for the Tuesday night drawing group in El Paso

PROGRESS?

I did a Google Lens reverse search on my drawing, and it linked to the cover of my book, self-published in 2008. Have I made any progress in the last 15 years?

A reverse search on one of my July drawings

goes to a similar drawing of mine

on the cover of the book I self-published in 2008

RIP GRIFFS

Griff's Hamburgers at Central and Wyoming closed abruptly on July 6th, and was demolished on July 14th, 2023:

Griff's Hamburgers closed and demolished

on Central and Wyoming in Albuquerque

I had no idea that Griff's had closed the day before when I bought this Griff's print from Shorty during the downtown ABQ Artwalk on July 7th:

I bought this Griffs silkscreen poster

the day after Griffs closed

Griff's Hamburgers was an icon from my youth. I spent a lot of time on that street corner at Central and Wyoming, waiting for the 66 bus, in the late 60s and early 70s.

HAMILTON

We saw HAMILTON on the last day, at the Plaza Theatre in El Paso on July 16th:

Hamilton

TOADS

Summer is toad time.

This year I spotted little toads on the banks of the Rio Grande. I have never seen these before. Earlier in the year the Rio Grande flooded, leaving lots of ponds of standing water, which I suspect are ideal for breeding toads -- and mosquitos. The air was thick with mosquitos, layering on my arms like peanut butter.

I saw the small toads on the north west banks of the Rio Grande at the Dolores Huerta Bridge in Albuquerque: