HENRY MORALES, ELLIE WEADOCK, VIRGIL VELASCO -- showed their BIG INK print at the SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER in Albuquerque for the "POST COVID BOMB" exhibition.
During the opening on June 14, 2024, we made an Exquisite Tessellation Print semi-guerilla style:
holding up the Tessellation Print that they just made
THE EXHIBITION
POST COVID BOMB
exhibition at the South Broadway Cultural Center
June 13 - August 17, 2024
The opening on June 13, 2024
The BIG INK Print
White Sands Collaboration Woodcut Print
Artists (left to right): Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, Virgil Velasco
Sponsor and art agitator: Karl Whitaker
The process:
This print was generated from three woodcut carvings on April 13, 2024, at a printing workshop event conducted by Lyell Castonguay of Big Ink (bigink.org). During the workshop weekend, prints from a dozen artists or teams of artists were collaboratively printed on the Big Ink traveling press.
A summary of the weekend’s printing, and activities leading to it can be found here:
The image concept:
It was during 2023 that Karl Whitaker suggested to a small group of printmakers that we embark on a print exhibition focusing on the history of New Mexico.
In 2021, national attention in the scientific community descended on White Sands when fossilized human trackways were radiocarbon dated to be made between 21,000 – 23,000 years ago. This discovery has challenged the long-established theory that the Clovis people were the first to set foot in the Americas. A few years later, in 2023, the film “Oppenheimer” brought popular national attention to the history of the detonation of the first atomic bomb, also in White Sands, NM.
These events enabled us to think about White Sands in a cross-section of sorts, both through place and time. We can see in one image the footprints, fossils and beings of ancient times alongside modern-age creations, beings and natural phenomena, as envisioned by three colleague artists.
By conceptualizing our past, we can understand the brevity of our own existence while holding hope that modern human society will learn from the past with a focus on the future.
- Ellie wrote the artists' statement above
- tinyurl.com/WhiteSandsBigPrint
Henry Morales (flowered shirt)
was the lead printmaker of the BIG INK print,
and got us into the Post Covid Bomb exhibition
GUERILLA PRINTING
We made an unscheduled EXQUISITE TESSELLATION PRINT during the opening, with linocuts from 8 different artists:
Eight artists contributed linocuts
for this tessellation puzzle print
(Ellie has two linocut tiles in this print)
- Ellie Weadock
- Virgil Velasco
- Jeanette Cook
- Casandra Encinias
- Bobby Orr
- Karl Whitaker
- Nancy Magnusson
- Daniel
We printed on Kitakata paper, natural color
We made two prints,
and they came out pretty decently
We inked outside
I bought vinyl from JoAnn's
to cover the board
Inked tessellation linocuts
ready to print
Thank you Daniel Allen
for helping out and contributing a linocut
SELECTED
Other ARTISTS
Alonzo Rodriguez
It was a good opening
RINSE and REPEAT
Afterwards I cleaned the linocut tiles with rubbing alcohol, and stored them in a plastic box. 20 "hat" linocut tiles fit in a 0.07 litre Really Useful Box that can be found at both Office Depot and Staples, usually.
This box would be easy to carry down to Santa Fe, El Paso, or even around Mexico, to make more tessellation prints in distant places.
20 "hat" linocuts tiles fit in a
PREVIOUS RELATED
ART AGITATIONS
2017: I showed my print collection at the SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER -- in an exhibitions called "PRINTS BY SOUTHWEST":
View the 2017 "Prints by Southwest" exhibition in 360°:
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2009: We made another art guerilla move in Arizona. I shuttled some Anarchestra instruments from Tucson to Phoenix, and we walked them into the Art Museum at ASU and crashed Paulo Nenflidio's exhibit of Gambiarra, two days before it ended:
We jammed a bit with Paulo and all the homemade instruments, and when the museum directors found out, they came and filmed us.
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