KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: September 2024

Thursday 12 September 2024

Oaxaca Print Reception -- and Henry Morales' print workshop

On Saturday, September 7th, 2024 there were two big PRINT happenings:

The reception for the Oaxaca print show at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on the University of New Mexico campus

Henry Morales' annual relief printmaking workshop at the Gutierrez Hubbell House

Manuel Guerra in front of the wheat-pasted prints

at the Maxwell Museum, a few days after the reception

Ellie helped Henry Morales

with his printmaking workshop at the Gutierrez Hubbell House

Henry Morales' workshop is part of the Muertos Y Marigolds workshops for the 2024 Marigold Procession and Celebration

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Pavel Acevedo is coming at the end of month to give five printmaking workshops as part of the Oaxaca exhibit at the Maxwell Museum -- September 30 to October 5th, 2024.

Then Pavel and Daniel Gonzalez will return to New Mexico quickly for their Southwest Print Tour -- Sendero Grafico -- October 11th to 15th, 2024. They will be selling prints at the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City, New Mexico on October 12th:

Pavel Acevedo and Daniel Gonzalez touring the Southwest

October 11 - 15, 2024

Interview with Pavel Acevedo two years ago:

Pavel Acevedo -- Desde Oaxaca -- DANCNG SOBR

Also later at night the Swat Team helicopter hoovered over my house
My laptop was unable to boot since Thursday night...and I had it fixed on Tuesday

Sunday 8 September 2024

September 6, 2024

During the downtown ABQ Artwalk (September 6, 2024) we drew at the Safe House Distilling Co. again in Albuquerque -- Ben Harrison organized the event:

Thursday 5 September 2024

Tessellation Printing at Argos in Santa Fe

I drove up to Santa Fe to make tessellation prints during the figure drawing session of the Tuesday Night Drawing group on September 3, 2024:

The first good tessellation print

made in Santa Fe

I'm cleaning up in Argos

after printing during the drawing group

John Tollett filmed the printmaking

with a drone

That same day, September 3rd, the Oaxaca wheat-paste print show opened up at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on the UNM campus -- "Oaxaca Ingobernable: Aesthetics, Politics, and Art from Below":

The Oaxaca print show

on the UNM campus

Pavel Acevedo is highlighted in the exhibition, and will be coming to run a relief printmaking workshop on September 30 to October 5th:

September 3, 2024

I drew during the morning drawing group at the new Argos Gallery/Studio location in Santa Fe:

September 2, 2024

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:

Monday 2 September 2024

Printmaking in Socorro with Axle Contemporary

I drove down to Socorro, New Mexico to make a guerilla tessellation print in front of the AXLE CONTEMPORARY mobile art van on September 1, 2024:

The final print

Matthew arranging the print

while Jerry watches

The print in front of the Axle Contemporary art van

We also experimented with printing with ink pads

The Axle van parked at the main plaza

in Socorro, New Mexico

Axle Contemporary was in Socorro to take photos for their E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon project:

Axle took my photo in Belen,

and plastered it on their van afterwards

I think I have to order some hard brayers from Amazon, which will print and clean more easily. It should also be easier to print on t-shirts with the hard brayers.

Sunday 1 September 2024

Nostalgia

Highlights from some of my history:

MEXICO CITY

1988-1991

I had the privilege of getting my masters degree in painting from the ex-Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City:

Me in the middle, next to my painting,

with Igor Buenfil and Joanna

Painting by Antonio Salazar

and the Taller Documentacion Visual

SAN FRANCISCO

1991 - 1998

I used to run the drawing sessions at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco:

I took this photo many years later,

in 2008

During that time I also had a studio in the Grant Building

R Crumb drawing in front of the Grant Building

when I had a studio there

SFNet was active almost the exact time I was living in San Francisco, 1991 - 1998. It wove the bohemian coffee houses together through computer terminals, before the Internet was available commercially: