Sunday, 29 December 2024

PRINTMAKING 2024 -- TESSELLATION -- Part 2


On the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS blog I wrote extensively about the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project,  so what follows is more of a synopsis:

The EXQUISITE TESSELLATIONS was our most widespread print project of 2024. We have handed out "hat" tessellation linoleum tiles to artists -- in New Mexico, El Paso, Tucson and Guadalajara -- for them to carve.  Then we can piece the tiles together to make larger prints:


Individual "hat" tiles
pieced together to make bigger collaborative prints


One print from each of the 
12 printmaking sessions in 2024

  • We made a "Pitch" for an article about the EXQUSITE TESSELLATION Print project to SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY magazine of Santa Fe for their HYPERLOCAL issue in March 2025, but no one ever got back to us (not even with a rejection)

We had out first EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print show at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque in December 2024 to January 2025:

First TESSELLATION show -- and other exhibitions
The opening was on December 13th, 2024

REMARQUE EXHIBITION 2024 -- Labeling CREDITS
Our first EXQUISITE TESSELLATION exhibition
at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque


The whole project is based on this "hat" shape -- an APERIODIC MONOTILE -- which has only been known for two years, since the end of 2022.  It was discovered by DAVID SMITH, who emailed us back after we let him know about our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION exhibition.

April 29, 2024
We laser cut linoleum into this "hat" shape,
7 inches at the widest

Ben Miles explains the "hat" shape on YouTube University:

How a Hobbyist Created An Infinite Pattern
That Never Repeats


We laser cut the "hats" from 12 x 18 inch sheets of linoleum that we buy at Takach Press in Albuquerque:

LightBurn SINGLE "hat" file --


We started the project in May:

May 4, 2024
I drew the model on 
a "hat" shaped linocut tile

November 4, 2024
Juan Wijngaard carved this masterpiece
and I picked it up in November

June 10, 2024
Ellie Weadock's tile


June 3, 2024
Jeanette Cook delivered
the first volley of "hat" linocuts in June

TESSELLATION Printmakers
Then the linocuts kept trickling in


CARVING

The artists carved in a variety of situation, and sometimes with interesting tools:

June 17, 2024
Aaron Bass used a dremel
to carve his linocut

June 19, 2024
Ken Romig and Mark Woody
carved at a bar after the drawing session

July 5, 2024
Julie Sola carved at her table in July
at the Farmer's Market in Santa Fe 


PRINTING

We made 35 large collaborative prints in 2024:

One of the 35 larger prints
that we made in 2024


See the post on the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS blog for all 12 printmaking sessions.  Below are highlighted a few selected tessellation printmaking sessions:

We made our first print guerilla style, side-busting on the POST COVID opening at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque on June 14th, 2024:
 

Tessellation Print -- Santa Fe
Mike Kimball at the Santa Fe Community College
holds the colored tessellation print that we made

We printed during the drawing session at FUSION in Albuquerque on July 10th:

FUSION Tessellation -- in Albuquerque
Ellie printed during the July 10th drawing session
at FUSION in Albuquerque

Manuel Guerra printed at UTEP in El Paso on July 15th:

July 15, 2024 -- Printing in El Paso
Manuel Guerra printing at UTEP in El Paso

We printed during the after-party of the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA in Silver City on October 12th:

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 --
 Tessellation After-Party
Printing during the after-party
of the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA


OTHER PRINTMAKING

There was some other kinds of printmaking going on besides at the big printmaking events:

We printed on an apron
with textile ink


October 22, 2024
Scott Wiggerman made a large colored
tessellation print at CNM in Albuquerque


November 15, 2024 -- Portrait
Joe Marshall printed in Tucson

Joe Marshall announces the Tucson Tessellation initiative on Substack:

November 11, 2024
Joe Marshall started the tessellations
 in Tucson

*****

HAVING FUN

July 24, 2024
Showing the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION print in Albuquerque
during the July 24th drawing session at FUSION


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