REMARQUE OPEN HOUSE -- Detonography and Tessellations

During Remarque Print Workshop's OPEN HOUSE on November 2, 2025 -- we made two kinds of prints -- one from Detonography and three from the big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocuts (that we previously printed in Silver City with a steamroller):

Remarque Print Workshop's OPEN HOUSE

 on November 2, 2025

Remarque Print Workshop

new location in Albuquerque

DETONOGRAPHY

Chris Cherry gave us a bronze plate that was created by Detonography -- a process using explosions to etch an image into bronze, pioneered by Evelyn Rosenberg.  Holland printed the plate with the intaglio method, and got a fairly nice result using Prussian Blue pigment:

Holland Hardie printed with

 Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash Etching Ink Prussian Blue

Holland Hardie, one of the three owners of Remarque,

adjusting the press

Remarque Re-Opening

I hung the new detonography print

at Remarque on November 7, 2025

(replacing the color print by Virgil Velasco)

Detonography --

The Explosive Art of Evelyn Rosenberg

LARGE TESSELLATION PRINTS

We reprinted some of the big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocuts that we originally printed with a steamroller, during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025 in Silver City, NM.  The initial idea was to print two big tessellation linocuts on a 22x30 inch piece of paper:

We printed with

 Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash Relief Inks

Printing in the basement of Remarque

Jessica Weybright gave us lots of help

FIRST PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Ellie Weadock
• Henry Morales

SECOND PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Julie Sola
• Anne Steen

Anne Steen collaborated with us by first silk-screening a yellow background:

Cutting out parchment paper

to mask out part of the screen

Gluing the paper to the screen

with spry adhesive

THIRD PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Virgil Velasco
• Burke Gurney
• Li Chu (zimmy)
• Jane Buffo

There were two other Open Houses this year (2025) at Remarque Print Workshop:

• Remarque Re-Opening
• Remarque Open House 2025