EL Paso -- March 2024

I was in El Paso from March 21st to March 29th, 2024:

NEXO ENTRE RAICES

Print Exhibition

The NEXO ENTRE RAICES exhibition was exhibiting on the first floor of the El Paso Museum of Art, from March 22 to July 21, 2024:

The NEXO ENTRE RAICES

print exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art

March 19, 2024

NEXO ENTRE RAICES

Exhibition and Panel Talk

at the El Paso Museum of Art

The PANELISTS

There was a panel discussion for the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES exhibition Saturday, March 23rd, 2023:

The Panel Discussion

Juan de Dios Mora -- Spanish interview

I had gone to San Antonio in 2016

to buy a print from Juan de Dios Mora

 Nabil Gonzalez

Gabriela Morac -- Spanish interview

We met Gabriela Morac in Oaxaca

in 2019

Gabriel Avalos -- Spanish interview

I met Gabriel Grafica (Gabriel Avalos)

in Mexico City in 2017

Francisco Delgado -- Spanish interview

Francisco Delgado

making prints in Oaxaca in 2015

Marco Sánchez -- English interview, Spanish interview

Marco Sanchez put together the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES print show, which was a HUGE effort.  Thank you, Marco:

Marco Sanchez holds down the "C", left

on the Zocalo in Mexico City 2019

Marco Sanchez also put on the PRINT PACHANGA

in the El Paso Museum of Art

in July 2023

There was also a NEXOS panel discussion previously

when the exhibition came to Albuquerque

GALLERY

The crowd in the gallery

before the Panel Discussion

The Artists

Queretaro

I met some of the print artists

in Queretaro in 2019

The Studios

The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

also showed in the same gallery in 2016

at the El Paso Museum of Art

The NEXOS ENTRE RAICES print exhibition had previously shown at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, from April 21st to September 10th, 2023:

NEXOS ENTRE RACIES

came to Albuquerque previously

Below is a YouTube video of the previous NEXO ENTRE RAICES exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque in 2023:

NEXO ENTRE RAICES -- Print Exhibition

 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

• Francisco Delgado posted an Instagram video of the print sale after the Panel Talk

• Meanwhile Joe Marshall and Pavel Acevedo were making prints in Tucson on the same day at the Panel Discussion at the El Paso Museum of Art (March 23, 2024)

2024 Border Biennial

The El Paso Museum of Art was featuring the 2024 BORDER BIENNIAL in the main gallery, and written up in Texas Monthly:

The 2024 Border Biennial

was the 5th Border Biennial

The Artists

I'm standing between

two paintings by George Strasburger of Tucson

Tino Ortega of El Paso

 and Alejandro Macias of Tucson

Adrian Aguirre of Las Cruces

Citlali Delgado

Gil Rocha of Laredo

MURALS

I spotted some new murals in downtown El Paso:

An old mural

by Christin Apodaca

By Cimi

"SOPA" punctuating this mural

at the far right

"SOPA" means the El Paso Art District

"South of Paisano"

Meanwhile there was an AR Alien Javelina invasion in Hueco Tanks:

AR Alien Javelina invasion