April 7, 2022

Drawn live at North Fourth Arts Center in Albuquerque.

PRINT

Carved on April 15, 2022

at Little Bear Coffee

in Nob Hill, Albuquerque

Printed on May 9, 2022

Henry Morales

printing during the break

Henry used our Tortilla Press

to print this woodcut

which looks like 1/4 inch thickness

Dennis Liberty's print

Dennis Liberty carved this on April 2nd,

at Slow Burn Coffee in Albuquerque

ABQ downtown Art Walk

The downtown Albuquerque Art Walk happened on April 7th, 2022, the second Friday this time:

I started at Mothership Alumni, the studio/gallery on the second floor on 4th Street near Central:

Ben Harrison's studio

at Mothership Alumni

John Paul Gutierrez 

had a solo show at OT Circus

Bearface had a solo show at Castle Coffee

Jarad McHugh

Amy Maestas 

was showing at El Chante

Amy Maestas was printing

with a Tortilla Press

Amy's linocuts

Judah Armstrong

jooj_goop on Instagram

Tortilla Press printing at Hecho Gallery in Santa Fe

HECHO GALLERY

Tortilla Press Printing

We took the Tortilla Press up to Santa Fe and did live printing for the grand opening of HECHO GALLERY in Santa Fe -- 129 W Palace -- on April 1st, 5 - 7 PM:

Video clip of live Tortilla Press printing

at the grand opening of Hecho Gallery in Santa Fe

• Thank you John Tollett for the video above and many of the pictures below

Frank Rose opened a second gallery in Santa Fe on April 1st, 2022 -- HECHO GALLERY -- which got a nice write-up in the Pasatiempo.  I also recommend his other gallery at the top of Canyon Road -- Hecho A Mano.

Pasatiempo article about the opening of Hecho Gallery

in Santa Fe

The Pasatiempo article

in the paper version

HECHO GALLERY

on Instagram

The April 1st opening was packed and very elegant, with music by DJ Erin.

This is the Tortilla Press set up in the gallery:

We set up on a single table in the gallery

Visitors lined up non-stop

to get a free print at the opening

Teamwork

Thank you Rich Hasler!

He came from Albuquerque to attend the opening

and wound up printing with me all night

Perhaps the best thing was when we asked the visitors to pump the handle on the Tortilla Press, and then run the tiny glass Iron Frog baren over the print they got to take home, for free:

The most fun was watching other people

do all the work 

Tres Gatos Press

from Guadalajara

Tres Gatos Press from Guadalajara not only pioneered the customized Tortilla Press idea that we used --   they also sent us four round linoleum plates to print.  

Tres Gatos Press in Guadalajara,

is Xavier Moreno and Alejandra Mares

Tres Gatos Press

is on Instagram

Below are the four prints by Tres Gatos Press that we printed and gave out:

Xavier Moreno

Alejandra Mares

Xavier Moreno

Alejandra Mares

Hello Print Friend interviewed Tres Gatos Press in both languages:

• English
• Spanish 

Tres Gatos Press also participated in the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange, between the US and Mexico, which is how we met them.

Tres Gatos Press also organized an international paste-up project in 2021, soliciting drawings of forward-looking skulls to make a Tzompantli (Aztec trophy skull rack), to paste up in the nicest cemetery in Guadalajara:

 Tzompantli Paste-up in Guadalajara

from International artists

We pasted a flyer on the print table to direct visitors to the 3 Gatos Press Instagram.  Horned Toad Prints from El Paso is also on the flyer, as we are working with them to push and perfect the Tortilla Printing in the US.

Horned Toad Prints

and 3 Gatos Press

flyer

A quick look to the street

during the HECHO GALLERY opening

Update (March 11): Hecho Gallery wrote a news story on us in their blog:

Screen shot

 of the posting about Tortilla Press printing

on the Hecho Gallery blog

Axle Contemporary

Mobile Art Gallery

While I was in Santa Fe I checked out the mobile AXLE CONTEMPORARY art van, which was exhibiting paste-up prints of HerStory, honoring significant women.  This was organized by Julianna Kirwin of Albuquerque :

The Axle van was parked

across the street from Site Santa Fe that day

HerStory

paste-up prints

The Axle van meets the Rail Runner train

at the Railyard in Santa Fe

• Julianna Kirwin will be doing live printing at the Axle Contemporary van in Santa Fe on May 8th, 11 AM to 3 PM, as part of the HerHistory exhibition.  This will be in the same location pictured, in front of the Farmer's Market in the Rail Yard district.  GoFundMe link.

• Julianna Kirwin also carved two huge woodcuts and took them up to Denver this weekend to print, with on the Big Tuna huge traveling press with BIG INK.

We are planning on showing 8 x 8 inch framed prints in July in the Axle van, and do live Tortilla Press printing again.  This is part of the BUCKETS EXHIBITIONS print pop-up project.  This will happen also during the Print Matters Festival at the same time in Santa Fe, organized by Tim Jag.

BUCKET EXHIBITIONS

hit-and-run print pop-up project

I also visited the new Artes de Cuba gallery while I was in Santa Fe.  Run by Stuart Ashman, this gallery apparently has only been open for a month:

The new Artes de Cuba gallery

in Santa Fe

• We were fortunate to get two prints for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange -- from Octavio Irving and Orlando Almanza while we were visiting artists in Cuba in 2018 and making prints at Octavio Irving's studio.

PRINTMAKERS TALK

Albuquerque Museum

On Sunday, March 3rd, the Albuquerque Museum put on the second of three printmaker panel talks in tandem with the current exhibition -- The Printer’s Proof: Artist and Printer Collaborations.   

(Left to right in the image below) Curator Josie Lopez conducted the interview with Karsten Creightney, Michael Costello, Harmony Hammond and Marina Ancona:

Karsten Creightney speaking

with his prints projected in the background

at the Albuquerque Museum

Meanwhile, in Socorro, Texas near El Paso, the Moonlight Art Gala is coming on Saturday, April 9th, 5 - 10 PM.