Sunday, March 17, 2019

FUSION Magazine

FUSION MAGAZINE #109


Fusion 109


At the news stands


There is an article about the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange in FUSION Magazine #109which came out on March 15, 2019.

Fusion is distributed in El Paso, Marfa, and Chihuahua City, Mexico, and has articles in both English and Spanish.


Fusion Magazine article
physical copy


ONLINE FUSION ARTICLE



















AMBOS LADOS INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXCHANGE

ambosladosinternationalprintexchange.blogspot.com
tinyurl.com/ambosprints

Art war between Oaxaca and El Paso?  Rather something more of a huge international cooperation transpired, as "Horned Toad Prints" of El Paso, teamed up with "Taller Grafica Libre" in Zaachila, Oaxaca, to solicit prints from 158 artists.  The submissions are pretty evenly divided from both sides of the Mexican border  -- as reflected in the title "Ambos Lados" (both sides) -- but also include a few entries from Cuba, Canada, Ireland and Australia, making it a true "international" art undertaking.  Each participant delivered an edition of 12 prints (on 8 x 8 inch paper), and received 10 prints from different artists, which is typical for a "print exchange."  Two sets of prints will travel in exhibitions throughout Mexico and the United States.  By reaching across the the border from El Paso, and vice-versa from Oaxaca, the two studios hope to make something greater than the two halves, through the "Ambos Lados International Print Exchange."

As Oaxaca is a Mecca of contemporary printmaking, it is a huge privilege to travel down there and interact with the young artists and art collectives, such as with "Taller Grafica Libre," run by Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas.  In 2015 Francisco Delgado of El Paso had the good fortune to create a large print for the "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta" at "Taller Grafica Libre," when that studio first emerged in the city of Oaxaca.  Since then Adrian and Beatriz have moved their studio to Zaachila, a small village outside the city of Oaxaca.  And it is in Zaachila that Manuel Guerra, of "Horned Toad Prints" of El Paso (and professor at UTEP), visited their studio, and there they hatched the idea of doing something bigger together.  Perhaps this print exchange can spawn even more artistic cooperation between Oaxaca and El Paso.

As there was no theme, and the exchange was open to anyone, a great variety of expressions and techniques resulted -- from lithograph to wood engraving, from etching to collagraph.  While prints came in from all over the country, there was a strong showing from artists in  El Paso: such as Raul Monarrez, Christin Apodaca, Angel Cabrales, Diane Vera, Victor Muheddine, and Cynthia Evans.  Prints from Oaxaca come from collectives like "Los Tlacolulocos,"  "Taller Grafica Ojos Tres," "Taller Estudio Yucucasa."  Other Mexican prints came from "Taller La Catrina" in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,  "3 Gatos Press" of Guanajuato,  "Taller de Grabado El Ajolote" of Mexico City, and "Museo Taller Erasto Cortés" of Puebla.

This collection debuts at the big SGCI print conference in the Dallas area, March 6 - 9, 2019, but will also show around Mexico, and in other US locations later this year.  The El Paso print community is making waves beyond Mountain Time!

PRINT IS NOT DEAD!


Friday, March 15, 2019

Summary -- SGCI North Texas

tinyurl.com/ambossgci

SUMMARY NORTH TEXAS SGCI 
March 6 - 9, 2019


Open Portfolio Madness

Summary of  the posts about what happened during the North Texas SGCI print conference in the Dallas area:


Omar Gonzalez with the crew from Booker T Washington arts high school,
making prints in front of the Dallas Museum of Art


SECOND DAY
March 7, 2019
On the Vendor Floor in front of the Speedball display --
the Amazing John Hancock (left) 
and equally amazing Carlos Hernandez (right)


AMBOS LADOS EXHIBITION

Our Ambos Lados International Print Exchange reception was during the afternoon of the 2nd day, on the second floor of the Fine Arts Building at the University of Texas at Arlington, from 1 - 4:30






Still shots of the Ambos Lados exhibition:












THIRD DAY
March 8, 2019
Horned Toad Prints with virtuoso printmaker Tom Huck


FOURTH DAY
March 9, 2014
The Horned Toad Print crew of El Paso
contributed to the animation project of Susan Rostow,
the creator of Akua Inks


OPEN PORTFOLIO

The complete madness is the final event, where hundreds of printmakers show off their prints at the end of the SGCI conference.  The prints were quite impressive!








The amazing t-shirt result


PRINT PORTFOLIO EXHIBITIONS

 In addition to Open Portfolio, there were a lot of great prints in the SGCI exhibitions around the Dallas/Fort Worth area, from artists across the country.  The prints produced in Texas, Mexico and the Southwest however, were mostly distinct from those produced in the rest of the country.

University of Dallas









University of Texas at Arlington




Texas Christian Univerisity (TCU)




University of North Texas


Print Rodeo





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Salud!






Thank you Dallas!


Of course, SGCI was better than SXSW down in Austin  (though Flatstock is pretty good).

We also went to SGCI in Portland in 2016.

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

North Texas SGCI 2019 -- Fourth Day

SGCI NORTH TEXAS -- FOURTH DAY
Saturday, March 9, 2019

The main event on the 4th and last day of the North Texas SGCI print conference, was the Open Portfolios showing at the Fairmont Hotel.  The quality and variety were truly impressive!


professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville,
displaying his prints at Open Portfolio


ANIMATION


The Horned Toad Print crew of El Paso
contributed to the animation project of Susan Rostow,
the creator of Akua Inks
(left to right)  Raul Monarrez, Manuel Guerra, Susan Rostow, Francisco Delgado



WORKSHOP


Kansas State faculty gave a workshop on how to get government funding.  However, their electro-etching project was far  more interesting to me.

FROM RAGS TO RICHES: STRATEGIES FOR SECURING EXTERNAL FUNDING FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY PRINTMAKING RESEARCH

Location: Fairmont Hotel, Banquet Level, Parisian Room

Time: 9 March, 9–11am

Presenters: Jason Scuilla, Professor, Area Head Printmaking, Kansas State University and Dr. Stefan Bossmann, Professor, Head of Organic Chemistry, Kansas State University

Jason Scuilla and Dr Stefan Bossman
at the Rags to Riches workshop


OPEN PORTFOLIO

Horned Toad Prints were assigned the 
Area 51 Table,
for the first round of Open Portfolio


Horned Toad Prints set-up during Open Portfolio --
note Dr Peter Briggs looking at the prints (in a brownish plaid shirt)




Melee of Open Portfolio


printing a John Hancock t-shirt


 Patricia Hood and Nicole Barreiro of FAU, showing prints at Open Portfolio  --



 professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio,
at Open Portfolio


Celeste De La Luna, professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande,
showing at Open Portfolio


Marco Sanchez and his prints


J Leigh Garcia, professor at Pensacola State College,
at Open Portfolio








Lisette Chavez








professor at the University of Idaho


Anamorphic print grafitti




PINE.COPPER.LIME 



INSTAGRAMS
Of selected Open Portfolio participants

I took the Instagrams
from these forms
displayed at Open Portfolio






PRINT RODEO
Goldmark Cultural Center

The Print Rodeo was an exhibition at the Goldmark Cultural Center in Dallas, of prints by students at Texas universities, including those from the University of Texas at El Paso. It was organized by Benjamin Muñoz and Eliana Miranda.

Go to THIS LINK to see selected prints displayed at the Print Rodeo.






BENITO HUERTA OPENING
In the Deep Ellum district of Dallas


Benito Huerta opening
at the Kirk Hopper Fine Art gallery in Dallas,
on Saturday, March 9, 2019




Benito Huerta at his opening  --
note that his work is also included in the amazing



Print exhibition in the Dallas club district, on Saturday, March 9, 2019:








Joe Carter
"Machine Shovel Girl"



Call to Printmakers

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