Wednesday 22 May 2024

Prints Crawling

Printmaking warms up as we move into summer:

PRINTERS PLANT
Albuquerque

On May 25, 2024 I will be doing print demos in Albuquerque at the PRINTERS PLANET market at FUSION:



COLLABORATIVE
TESSELLATION
PRINT

Virgil brought in a carved "hat" linocut, so Henry Morales pulled a new "tessellation" print in his studio after the drawing session on May 21, 2024:



Tessellation print
with four collaborators:
(cw) Casandra, Virgil, 
Ellie, Krrrl


Virgil's new "hat" linocut 




PRINTING

It's somewhat of a challenge to print from these puzzle pieces.  After inking it's hard to move them to the press in the same order:












VARIATIONS

These "hat" linocuts can be arranged in many different ways:




Henry actually pulled proofs of two different arrangements:

Two different combinations
of the same four linocut pieces


EL PASO

PRNT PNTG

While in El Paso I checked out the opening of the "PRNT PNTG" print exhibition of the UTEP students at Alameda Art and Salvage on May 20, 2024:

PRNT PNTG
student print exhibition
at Almeda Art + Salvage in El Paso


The UTEP student print exhibition


Alameda Art + Salvage
gallery


The big event will be the closing during the evening on May 30, 2024.  So people just trickled in during the opening.  Sara Saucedo came when I was there, so I took a picture of her in front of her print:

Sara Saucedo


Sara Saucedo


The PRINTS







Lithograph
by Karen H




Lithograph
by Frank Dia








Manuel Guerra, the printmaking professor at UTEP, found an old copper etching, and reworked it with a portrait that he drew:



Manuel Guerra's printmaking studio -- Horned Toad Prints -- is adjacent to the gallery. So Manny was pulling a print for someone while gallery sitting:

Manny pulling an etching print proof,
that took an hour to wipe


Examining the proof


This plate was created 
by someone else (not Manny)


The UTEP student prints are pretty impressive and humbled me deeply:

Humbled by the prints,
I was reduced to panhandling 
outside the printmaking studio


Later Deborah and I went to get a Americanos coffeees
at the Coffee Party nearby
in the Falstaff building


WORKSHOP Idea

Perhaps we can bring a stack of "hat" shaped linoleum pieces to a coffee shop, get artists to carve something in 3 hours, and make a big collaborative print before they leave:






The major challenge would be HOW to make a big print, with multiple puzzle pieces -- however perhaps we could do that with the "Estampador" hand printer from Barcelona:




OLD SHEEPDOG BREWERY

This past May 14th, 2024, Cruz Ortiz came from San Antonio to do live printmaking at the Old Sheepdog Brewery in El Paso.  Manuel Guerra also did live printmaking at this event:

DJing and live printmaking
at the Old Sheepdog Brewery in El Paso
on May 14th, 2024



Federico Villalba took a few photos of Cruz Ortiz while he was printing:


Cruz Ortiz
silk screening at the Old Sheepdog Brewery
in El Paso, on May 14th




PAVEL ACEVEDO
showing in Santa Fe

Pavel Acevedo has a print show at the Jen Tough Gallery in El Dorado, near Santa Fe:



JUAREZ

Yorch is moving his panaderia and print shop to a new location from downtown Juarez:

Panaderia Rezizte
moving from it's Juarez location

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