Oaxaca Print Pickup

Manuel Guerra flew down to Oaxaca from El Paso on December 21, to pick up 55 print editions from Taller Grafica Libre.  

Manuel Guerra of Horned Toad Prints, and Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas of Taller Grafica Libre, are organizing the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange

Nirvana in Oaxaca

 Adrian Aguirre, Manuel Guerra (Sitting, l to r),

 Nidia Rosales, Beatriz Rivas (Standing, l to r)

First Manny delivered a composition roller from Takach Press to Beatriz Rivas and Adrian Aguirre, the directors of Taller Grafica Libre from their home studio in Oaxaca.  They are organizing the Mexican printmakers in the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.

Beatriz holds the Takach roller,

while Adrian holds their Mexican hairless dog

Then Manny picked up 55 Mexican print editions for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange:

Taller Grafica Libre had a "reventon" in their studio in Zaachila with some of the printmakers contributing to Ambos Lados.

Gathering of Ambos Lados printmakers at Taller Grafica Libre in Zaachila  --
2nd from left -- Alarii Mendoza Garca
3rd from left -- Beatriz Rivas
4th from left -- Adrian Aguirre
 5th from left -- Julio Villavicncio 

Visiting other print talleres:

Some art flavor of Oaxaca:

Shinzaburo Takeda

Francisco Toledo

Reflections in Tamayo 

Zaachila

Oaxaca City

It was just before Christmas in Oaxaca

In front of Santo Domingo, downtown Oaxaca

Why would I leave Oaxaca?

Printmaking in the USA

Printmaking is very different in the United States, as opposed to Mexico.

Tanya Rich in front of the Longo lithographs

at INK Miami Art Fair 2018

in the Hamilton-Selway room

STUDIOS

While printmaking can be pretty expensive in the US,  printmaking studios likewise range from garages to very high end complexes.  Below are some photos we managed to get from a few Southwest print studios:

EL PASO

Horned Toad Prints studio in El Paso,

run by Manuel Guerra (tallest),

with Francisco Delgado (red) and Raul Monarrez (r)

Horned Toad Prints studio in El Paso,

a short walk to Mexico

TUCSON

 Joshua Woodhall was part of "Taller Sin Miedo"

when it was at the Sculpture Resource Center in Tucson,

2012

David Contreras (right) with his press

 at Raices Studio/Gallery in Tucson,

with Gonzalo Espinosa (left)

SANTA FE

Santa Fe Etching Club 

at Argos Studio/Gallery

Mike Kimball

printing at the Santa Fe Community College

ALBUQUERQUE

Henry Morales at his home studio in Albuquerque

Aaron Bass in his home studio in Albuquerque

Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

when it used to be New Grounds Print Workshop

when Pamela Wesolek gave a demo in 2014

Tamarind Institute is a world class lithography studio located in Albuquerque, and is affiliated with the University of New Mexico. 

Tamarind Institute

is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque

Tamarind video

Takach Press makes high end printing presses, and sells printmaking supplies.  It is not a printmaking studio, but is conveniently located in Albuquerque.

Takach Press in Albuquerque,
Marcos holding supplies we brought to Cuba

EXHIBITIONS

Exhibitions are not always to easy to pull off, but we do manage to show the prints across the Southwest and the rest of the United States.  Here is link to some of the shows we have put on in the last 4 years.

We  recently had a great opening for the Horned Toad II Print Exchange

at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2018

in Silver City, New Mexico

We are showing the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange at SGCI North Texas in March, 2019. We should get a better venue than we did in Portland.

SGCI Portland 2016

REMARQUE 

INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION

Currently Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque is also going International -- they have their 6th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition on display right now, through January 2019.  Below are a few of the prints:

J Leigh Garcia

(who is also in the Ambos Lados print exchange)

Art Werger

Linda Lee Boyd

Linda Lieberman

Ramon Deanda

Enrique Guadarrama Solis

Sarah Smelser

MIAMI ART

By a fluke, we found ourselves in Miami during Miami Art Basel time, so we went with an eye on the prints.   There were a lot of other art fairs besides the main Art Basel show in the Miami Convention Center.  We made sure to go to the INK Miami Art Fair that specialized in prints.

INK Miami Art Fair

MIXOGRAFIA

Los Angeles

Shaye Remba of Mixografia

of Los Angeles

STONEY ROAD PRESS

Dublin, Ireland

Dorothy Cross prints,

with the lights on

Dorothy Cross prints,

glow with the lights off

SUSAN TELLER GALLERY

New York

Old School prints from the Arts Students League

TAG FINE ARTS

London

Prints by Katsutoshi Yuasa

TANDEM PRESS

Madison, Wisconsin

Swoon

GREGG SHIENBAUM

Miami

Red Grooms

MIAMI ART BASEL 2018

We also went to the main Miami Art Basel fair, and saw fewer prints.  However, the whole event was so overwhelming that it was difficult to grasp what we saw at all.  There were some high end Georg Baselitz prints, for instance:

Georg Baselitz 

at the Allen Cristea Gallery

I believe printmaking is a little more out of reach in the US.  Printing presses are not cheap, and most people do not have a printmaking set up in their house.  A lot of printmakers use the facilities at the local community college.  Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque charges a monthly fee to use their facilities, but not all cities have a public print shop to work in.  Print publishers, like Landfall Press in Santa Fe must be prohibitively expensive.

And interesting response to this are university associated print studios.  At UNM in Albuquerque, we have Tamarind Institute, as noted above.  However the Tandem Press is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Graphicstudio (Institute of Research in Art) is affiliated with the University of South Florida.