One of my prints is showing at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque as part of the NEW MEXICO PRINTMAKING INVITATIONAL exhibition, April 9th - May 29th, 2021:
From the online Zoom opening,
5 - 5:30 PM, April 9th
Remarque Print Workshop has posted some of their Printmaker Talks on YouTube.
The print is 8 x 8 inches, which makes it easy to send in the mail, even to Mexico. The 40 prints from the Southwest Print Fiesta 2020 were sent to participants from Oaxaca and Guadalajara, and they arrived safely. This size is perfect for passing prints back and forth across the border, and having pop-up print exhibitions in both the US and Mexico. 8 x 8 inches also fits, and looks great, and transports well in inexpensive Walmart frames.
GALLERY
Entering the main gallery
THE PRINTMAKERS
- Vicki Bolen
- Thayer Carter
- Kate Coucke
- Terry Garrett
- Betsy Greenlee
- Christine Herman
- Calliandra Hermanson
- Juana Estrada Hernandez
- Karen Hymer
- Evey Jones
- Jamie Karolich
- Mike Kimball
- Julianna Kirwin
- Jessica Krichels
- Krrrl
- Jennifer Lynch
- Suzanne Marshall
- Juliet Mattila
- Annamarie Morris
- Dan Noyes
- Scott Parker
- Pat Pitcher
- Ron Pokrasso
- Janet Yagoda Shagam
- Barbara Shapiro
- Jorge Tristani
- Pamela Wesolek
- Jared Wittenmyer
I really like the diversity in this show, not only for the styles of printmaking, but also for selection of printmakers across the state. It always seems to be a rare thing when New Mexicans get together for one show, since everyone in our state seems to be working independently in their own particular silo.
We put on an in-state exhibition at Remarque in 2019 -- New Mexico- Living Relief. However between the two exhibitions we are still missing some New Mexican printmakers, notably those from Taos, as well as some from Las Cruces and other parts of the state.
OPENING
There was a semi-open physical opening on Friday, April 16th.
The refreshments were outside
due to Covid restrictions
Seven years ago we also attended a printmaking demo by Pamela Wesolek:
Sunset in front of Remarque/New Grounds studio/gallery
Mountain Street Prints
Julianna Kirwin pasted a new set of prints on her studio on Mountain Street in Albuquerque on Saturday, April 17th -- Prints of Women Throughout History:
Amanda Gorman, Georgia O'Keefe, Augusta Savage,
Dolores Huerta, Deb Haaland, Julianna Kirwin,
Friedl Diceker-Brandeis, Emma Gonzalez
She cut out pieces from Foamies sticky back foam (from Michaels or Walmart), adhered it to plastic, and inked it up to create the larger prints on her press.
In 2020, Julianna spearheaded a banner project. She collected prints from the community, created banners from them, and had them hung on lampposts on Mountain Road in Albuquerque.
Note: Julianna's print is the one on the right, on the New Mexico Printmaking Invitational postcard, the first image on this blog post.
Steamroller Printing on Styrofoam
In 2014 I helped with a steamroller printing event in El Paso, and those prints were displayed at a museum in San Antonio in 2015:
Steamroller prints shown in San Antonio in 2015
However recently in Mexico they did steamroller printing on Styrofoam "plates." Wow!
Martin Quintanilla, of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, told me that he recently had participated in a big steamroller printmaking in Morelia, Mexico. Apparently 30 artists painted images on big sheets of Styrofoam (or polystyrene?) with house paint, and then "cut or etched" the exposed areas with paint thinner, to make the big plate, that was about a square yard (90 cm x 90 cm).
Below is a video of the steamroller event. Notice how they rolled out one continuous piece of cloth, 262 feet, to make one big print:
In 2022 this print is currently on view at the Centro Cultural Clavijero in Morelia, Michoacán, and will be displayed at the National Printmaking Museum in Mexico City. This event was organized by Emilio Payán, the current director of the National Printmaking Museum.
Martin Quintanilla is also organizing a portfolio of medium sized prints mostly from Michoacan:
Jose Guadalupe Posada
Currently there is a Posada exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum -- Jose Guadalupe Posada: Legendary Printmaker of Mexico -- December 19, 2020 -- May 23, 2021. This complements the Frida Kahlo exhibition, showing concurrently.
There are some interesting contemporary prints in this show, by El Pinche Grabador and Jainite Silvestre from Mexico, and Art Hazelwood, Marsha Shaw and Jim Nikas from San Francisco:
The gallery view
of the "other" printmakers
in the Posada exhibition
"Nochixtlan"
"Resiste madre patria tus hijos siguen dormidos"
Art Hazelwood is a printmaker and instigator from San Francisco with connections to New Mexico:
"Gaceta Callejon"
The collaboration print below was made in 2012 at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, where I once monitored the life drawing classes in the late 1990s.
"La Calavera 99%"
by Jose Guadalupe Posada,
Interesting HyperAllergeic article about the ongoing problems at the San Francisco Art Institute, where Art Hazelwood taught. UPDATE: The San Francisco Art Institute will become part of the University of San Francisco.
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