Thursday 13 June 2024

Post Covid Bomb -- Guerilla Printing

HENRY MORALES, ELLIE WEADOCK, VIRGIL VELASCO -- showed their BIG INK print at the SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER in Albuquerque for the "POST COVID BOMB" exhibition.  

During the opening on June 14, 2024, we made an Exquisite Tessellation Print semi-guerilla style:


Ellie and Daniel in front of the framed BIG INK print --
holding up the Tessellation Print that they just made


THE EXHIBITION

POST COVID BOMB
June 13 - August 17, 2024


The opening on June 13, 2024







The BIG INK Print


White Sands Collaboration Woodcut Print

Artists (left to right): Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, Virgil Velasco
Sponsor and art agitator: Karl Whitaker


The process:


This print was generated from three woodcut carvings on April 13, 2024, at a printing workshop event conducted by Lyell Castonguay of Big Ink (bigink.org). During the workshop weekend, prints from a dozen artists or teams of artists were collaboratively printed on the Big Ink traveling press.

A summary of the weekend’s printing, and activities leading to it can be found here:

The image concept:

It was during 2023 that Karl Whitaker suggested to a small group of printmakers that we embark on a print exhibition focusing on the history of New Mexico.

In 2021, national attention in the scientific community descended on White Sands when fossilized human trackways were radiocarbon dated to be made between 21,000 – 23,000 years ago. This discovery has challenged the long-established theory that the Clovis people were the first to set foot in the Americas. A few years later, in 2023, the film “Oppenheimer” brought popular national attention to the history of the detonation of the first atomic bomb, also in White Sands, NM.

These events enabled us to think about White Sands in a cross-section of sorts, both through place and time. We can see in one image the footprints, fossils and beings of ancient times alongside modern-age creations, beings and natural phenomena, as envisioned by three colleague artists.

By conceptualizing our past, we can understand the brevity of our own existence while holding hope that modern human society will learn from the past with a focus on the future.

 

    • Ellie wrote the artists' statement above
    • tinyurl.com/WhiteSandsBigPrint

Henry Morales (flowered shirt)
was the lead printmaker of the BIG INK print,
and got us into the Post Covid Bomb exhibition




GUERILLA PRINTING

We made an unscheduled  EXQUISITE TESSELLATION PRINT during the opening, with linocuts from 8 different artists:

Eight artists contributed linocuts 
for this tessellation puzzle print
(Ellie has two linocut tiles in this print)












We made two prints,
and they came out pretty decently


We inked outside








to cover the board






Inked tessellation linocuts
ready to print




Thank you Daniel Allen
for helping out and contributing a linocut




SELECTED
Other ARTISTS











Alonzo Rodriguez




It was a good opening


RINSE and REPEAT

Afterwards I cleaned the linocut tiles with rubbing alcohol, and stored them in a plastic box. 20 "hat" linocut tiles fit in a 0.07 litre Really Useful Box that can be found at both Office Depot and Staples, usually.

This box would be easy to carry down to Santa Fe, El Paso, or even around Mexico, to make more tessellation prints in distant places.

20 "hat" linocuts tiles fit in a




PREVIOUS RELATED
ART AGITATIONS

2017:  I showed my print collection at the SOUTH BROADWAY CULTURAL CENTER -- in an exhibitions called "PRINTS BY SOUTHWEST":


View the 2017 "Prints by Southwest" exhibition in 360°:


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2009: We made another art guerilla move in Arizona.  I shuttled some Anarchestra instruments from Tucson to Phoenix, and we walked them into the Art Museum at ASU and crashed Paulo Nenflidio's exhibit of Gambiarra, two days before it ended:


We jammed a bit with Paulo and all the homemade instruments, and when the museum directors found out, they came and filmed us.


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