Ambos Lados International Print Exchange: Printmaker Spotlights -- Part 2

THE PRINTS

Part 2 of the magical things about the Ambos Lados printmakers and prints:

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TORU SUGITA

Toru Sugita of San Francisco is represented by Davidson Galleries in Seattle (specializing in prints). Toru enjoyed a print residency at Taller Grafica Libre in Zachilla in December 2016 - January 2017. He exhibited his prints at Espacio Centro, run by Nidia Rosales Moreno, and maestro Shinzaburo Takeda came to the opening.

(Left to right) Toru Sugita, Shinzaburo Takeda,

Misayo Tsutsui and Fumiyo Yoshikawa (artist and Toru's wife)

at Toru's opening in Oaxaca City

Maestro Shinzaburo Takeda taught printmaking to the current explosive generation of young Oaxacan printmakers.

CUBA

2 printmakers from Habana, Cuba submitted to the Ambos Lados print exchange -- Octavio Irving and Orlando Almanza. Octavio Irving ran the prestigious large Taller Experimental de Gráfica when President Obama visited Cuba in 2016. He printed Tanya Rich's edition when we visited Habana in the summer of 2018.

Octavio Irving of Habana, Cuba

YouTube video of

Taller Experimental de Grafica

in Habana, Cuba

OAXACA COLLECTIVE

CARPETA NACIONAL DE ESTAMPA EN MEXICO
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

Pavel Acevedo and Roberto Rodriguez are both in the Oaxaca Collective Carpeta, organized by Irving Herrera, and was very inspirational for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta and other print projects that we have undertaken.

Pavel Acevedo, printmaker originally from Oaxaca,

showing the Oaxaca carpeta at Urge Palette

in Riverside, California

Pavel Acevedo set up our first connection to Oaxaca, when he arranged for Francisco Delgado to make his Desert Triangle edition at Taller Grafica Libre in 2015.

SANTA FE ETCHING CLUB

Eli Levin and Sarah McCarty started the Santa Fe Etching Club in 1981, and it continues at Argos Studio/Gallery to this day. Eli is pictured below with Abby Mattison.

Eli Levin and Abby Mattison

at the Santa Fe Etching Club in Argos Gallery,

standing in front of Eli's wall of prints

Below, Argos Studio/Gallery owner Eric Thomson helps Mary Lawler on the press at the Santa Fe Etching Club. Mary Teichman, from Massachusetts, gave a printmaking workshop there in December 2017.

Eric Thomson and Mary Lawler

work the old time press

at Argos Studio/Gallery

Dr Robert Bell

lecturing about his print collection on the walls of Argos Gallery,

featuring Rembrandt, Duer and many old masters

URUAPAN, MICHOACAN

The printmakers from MAPECO, in Uruapan, Michoacan, gave us 14 masterpieces -- Matias Alvarez Cervantes, Eunice Barajas Murguia, Edgar Miguel Cerda Avila, Maria Rosa Cervantes Bernal, Christhian Diaz Reyes, Samuel Diaz Gaona, Daphna Garibay Rubio, Hectores, Miriam Veronica Jarillo Perez, Gilberto Raul Mendoza Martinez, Alfonso Pola Castandeda, Angelica Ramirez Galeana, Irma Reyes Almanza, Olga Tolo! The photos on this blog entry.

Some of the printmakers from Uruapan

Samuel Diaz Gaona of Uruapan created his with "Camafeo Sobre Tetrapack" technique, which seems like "milk carton drypoint." A Tetra Pak is the container that holds juice or other fluids. Note the horizontal lines on Samuel's print, indicating that he unfolded a juice container or such, and then scratched lines into it to make this beautiful print.

Samuel Diaz Gaona used a

"milk carton drypoint" technique

with a "Tetra Pak"

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO

Printmaking Department

The University of Texas at San Antonio has an excellent printmaking department! And we had a great response from San Antonio -- Professor Humberto Saenz, Omar Gonzalez, Lacey Mills, Aaron Pozos, Jon Stahly, Alan Serna, Madison Cowles Serna

Professors Kent Rush (l) and Juan De Dios Mora

reviewing a Luis Jimenez print

when we visited the printmaking department

of the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2016

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REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

Albuquerque

Jessica Weybright, one of the 4 owners of Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque, submitted to the Ambos Lados print exchange. So did Kimberly McCarthy, who is currently an intern at Remarque Print Workshop.

Jessica Weybright (right)

with the other 3 owners of Remarque Print Workshop,

(l to r) Jessica Krichols, Lincoln Draper, Mary Sundstorm

Remarque Print Workshop has been very supportive of our print projects. They hosted the "From Behind the Wall: Prints by Contemporary Mexican Maestros" in 2017, showing our Mexican print collection. And previously, when it was New Grounds Print Workshop under Regina Held, they editioned Ruben Moreno's print for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.

TAMARIND INSTITUTE

Albuquerque

Tamarind Institute is part of the University of New Mexico. Ben Schoenburg has gone through the program and currently works there.

Ben Schoenburg

receiving his prints at Tamarind

TAKACH PRESS

Albuquerque

Takach Press is also located in Albuquerque, and this is where we buy printmaking supplies. They cut a lot of the paper we bought, into 8 x 8 inch squares, so that we could send it off to Oaxaca to start this print exchange. Aaron Bass works for Takach Press.