FIRST EXHIBITION -- We are showing the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange during the big 2019 SGCI North Texas print conference, March 6 - 9. All 158 prints are now hung at the University of Texas at Arlington.
AMBOS LADOS INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXCHANGE
The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange expands the dialog between the two cultures, as there are strong printmaking communities in both the US and Mexico, but the printmakers are not familiar with each other.
Venue: 2nd Floor (above Gallery 295), Fine Arts Building, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 South Cooper Street, Arlington, TX 76019
Reception: 7 March, 1–4:30pm
David Diaz hanging the Ambos Lados print exchange
at the University of Texas at Arlington
Apparently KTSM interviewed Horned Toad Prints about the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange on the eve of SGCI -- March 4th, 2019. KTSM is the NBC television affiliate in El Paso.
See all the prints on the following two blogs:
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BEFORE
We delivered 10 boxes of matted and framed prints to professor Nancy Palmeri on February 4th, 2019.
Professor Nancy Palmeri
and 10 boxes of framed prints
Parked in front of the Fine Arts Building
at the University of Texas at Arlington
All 10 boxes of prints
loaded up in my Honda FIT
in Albuquerque, New Mexico
look forward to seeing the print exchange they co-organized
at SGCI North Texas 2019
of Taller Grafica Libre
in Zaachila, Oaxaca
co-organized this print exchange
We hope to get the first edition of the catalog out by SGCI.
Dallas version of the Ambos Lados catalog
Texchange <--> Mexchange
ambosladosinternationalprintexchange.blogspot.com
tinyurl.com/amboslados
"Ambos Lados" means both sides. This print exchange was organized from both sides of the border -- by Manuel Guerra of Horned Toad Prints in El Paso, and byAdrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas of Taller Grafica Libre in Zaachila, Oaxaca. The 158 prints are fairly evenly split between the two countries -- with 72 from Mexico, 80 from the United States, and 6 from other countries, Australia, Canada, Cuba and Ireland.
Oaxaca is a kind of a Mecca for printmaking right now, with a lot of young talent emerging from that art center. We feel very privileged to be working with the artists down there, and with those from other Mexican cities that participated as well. Most of the Mexican printmakers work in groups from "talleres," or studios -- such as "Taller Grafica Libre," "Taller Grafica Ojos Tres," and "Espacio Artistico Xicotencalt" of Oaxaca; "Taller La Catrina" of Monterrey; "3 Gatos Press" of Guanajuato; "Taller Escuela MAPECO" of Uruapan; "Taller de Grafica El Ajolote" of Mexico City; and "Museo Taller Erasto Cortés" in Puebla, to mention a few.
Texas also has a strong young printmaking community. There has been a welling up of printmaking activity in El Paso recently. For instance, this is the 3rd print exchange organized by Horned Toad Prints; and half of the printmakers from the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta (2016) come from the El Paso area. There is a strong showing of San Antonio printmakers in this Ambos Lados exchange, centered around UTSA.
New Mexico is also well represented by 18 printmakers, working from studios such as the Santa Fe Etching Club, and Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque. Likewise we have solid participation from the rest of the border states, with 9 participants from Arizona, and 8 from California.
Plus we are very pleased with the printmakers from other parts of the country who submitted as well. Four Seattle artists submitted, including Brain Lane of Print Zero Studios.
Anyone in the world could participate, this was a non-juried prnt exchange, and the theme was open.
We asked for 12 prints, on 8 x 8 inch paper.
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Summary -- Spotlights on our Printmakers
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