Wednesday, 27 December 2023

PRINTS in 2023

I could barely keep up with all the printmaking that happened this year 2023.  I covered printmaking in depth in these blog posts:

BUCKET EXHIBITIONS:

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PRINT EXCHANGES


BLENDED
Prints, AI, and my Drawing Style

I managed to blend my drawing style, AI and printmaking in my edition for the Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange 2023:






I also enhanced my print with AR (Augmented Reality), but it was too painful to experience, so I did not advertise it:





OPEN PRESS PRINT EXCHANGE

I also entered the OPEN PRESS PRINT EXCHANGE #2 from Germany, making a 2.7 x 2.7 inch print on their 3D printed printing press:




EXHIBITIONS


GRAND EXHIBITIONS

We had some big grand print exhibitions in 2023 (as I noted on the BUCKET EXHIBITONS blog):


UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ART MUSEUM
TUCSON

TUCSON (June 10 - December 21, 2023): 



EL PASO MUSEUM OF HISTORY

EL PASO (March 18 - July 15, 2023):



NORTH FOURTH ART CENTER
Albuquerque


ALBUQUERQUE (November 10 - December 31,2023):

  • We showed 8x8 inch prints at the Santa Fe Community College during PRINT SANTA FE:



LAS CRUCES (May 6, 2023):
  • I went down to Las Cruces for PRINT DAY IN MAY when Chris Bardey hung some of our BUCKET PRINTS at his "Art Department" studio during the Las Cruces Printmaking Studio Tour:
  • We showed five prints from Albuquerque printmakers at PHIL SPACE:




SILVER CITY, NM (October 6, 2023):



EL PASO (November 30, 2023):




LIVE PRINTMAKING

BIG EVENTS

We had several live printmaking sessions in 2023 (as noted on the BUCKET EXHIBITONS blog):

TUCSON (October 24, 2023):

EL PASO (July 15, 2023):
  • LIVE PRINTMAKING in both El Paso and Guadalajara.  We printed live at the El Paso Museum of History for the AMBOS LADOS closing, while Guadalajara live streamed LIVE PRINTMAKING with 3 Gatos Press and Manuel Guerra:


El Paso  (March 18):



SMALLER EVENTS


ALBUQUERQUE (January 7, 2023): 



SANTA FE (April 29):
  • We printed live with the TORTILLA PRESS in front of HECHO A MANO gallery at the top of Canyon Road during PRINT SANTA FE:
PRINT SANTA FE -- Summary 2023

LAS CRUCES  (May 6):


TIJERAS, NM  (June 3):



SANTA FE  (June 24):
  • We made prints live on a REAL TORTILLA Press during the PRINTERS PLANET market in front of the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition:

GUADALAJARA  (July 8):





LAS VEGAS, NM (September 1):


ALBUQUERQUE (September 9):



ALBUQUERQUE (December 1, 2023):

We printed live during First Friday at the North Fourth Art Center, which was the second reception for the "Deck the Walls" exhibition:




BLOCK PARTIES
Workshops

We had three BLOCK PARTY workshops at the North Fourth Art Center, where people would bring in their 8x8 linocuts and we would print them:










PRINTMAKING
TECHNIQUES

During the year our printmaking techniques evolved

AI linocut
printed with Mayan Blue pigment





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