Ambos Lados International Print Exchange: Printmaker Spotlights -- Part 3

THE PRINTS

Part 3 of the magical things about the Ambos Lados printmakers and prints:

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MONTERREY
Taller La Catrina

Angelica Bracho runs Taller La Catrina in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Last year, when she showed the Horned Toad II Print Exchange, she helped decide on the title "Ambos Lados," and thus launched this print exchange on full speed.

Angelica Bracho (center) and helpers

hung the Horned Toad II Print Exchange

in her studio, Taller La Catrina

She sent work by 9 other different printmakers to Ambos Lados -- Adrian Aguilar Reyes, Jesus Manuel Alanis Garza, Leonardo Ayala Guillen (Beo Hake), Miguel Angel Cantu Garcia, Gustavo Garza Sanchez (Gustavo Dinosaurio), Frida Astrid Lopez Puga, Alma Rosa Romero, David Urias Castro (David Davenport), Valeria Leticia Valencia Gorostieta (Vale Valencia).

HORNED TOAD II PRINT EXCHANGE
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

The previous print exchange -- Horned Toad II Print Exchange -- included 6 printmakers from Oaxaca, 44 of whom are in Ambos Lados -- Adrian Aguirre, Jorge Mendoza, Beatriz Rivas, Andrea Velasquez. After showing the Horned Toad II in Oaxaca in 2017, it was obvious that there had to be a print follow-up of some sort.

The Horned Toad II Print Exchange exhibition

at Espacio Centro in Oaxaca in 2017

Also many US printmakers in the Horned Toad II print exchange are in Ambos Lados -- Pavel Acevedo, Christin Apodaca, Aaron Bass, Laurie D Brown, Glenn Buack, Ashley B Cranney, Diane Davis, Francisco Delgado, Jules Floss, Sam Garcia, Susan Gonzalez (Skuiski), Manuel Guerra, Eric Hodgins, Brian Lane, Eli Levin, Abby Mattison, Raul Monarrez, Henry Morales, Lyn Nicholls, Augustine Romero, Humberto Saenz, Marco Sanchez, Alan Serna, Diane Vera, Jim Weaver, and Karl Whitaker.

The Horned Toad II Print Exchange

was shown during the Southwest Print Fiesta

in Silver City, 2018

Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art:

Artists, Work, Culture, and Education

2 Volume Book
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

Both Francisco Delgado and Augustine Romero are listed in this 2 volume set of on profiles of Chicano artists -- Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Work Culture and Education.

Francisco Delgado (vol 1, p 16)

and Augustine Romero (vol 2, p242)

are profiled in the book

Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art

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SERIE PROJECT
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

3 artists in Ambos Lados are in the Serie Project, a huge fine art serigraph shop in Austin, Texas, run by the late Sam Coronado. Francisco Delgado (2003-04), Manuel Guerra (2004-05), Alec Dempster (2005-06)

Alec Dempster's print listed

in the 2005-06 cycle of Serie prints

DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

9 Ambos Lados printmakers are in the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta -- Pavel Acevedo, Gonzalo Espinosa, Tanya Rich, Karl Whitaker, Henry Morales, Francisco Delgado, Manuel Guerra, Raul Monarrez, and Victor Muheddine,.

The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

showing at the El Paso Museum of Art in 2016

ex-ACADEMIA DE SAN CARLOS
Mexico City

Cuauhtemoc Kamffer and Karl Whitaker went to ENAP-UNAM art school together, the ex-Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, which was originally established as a school of engraving in 1781.

Cuauhtemoc Kamffer signing a print

long before this print exchange

TLACOLULOKOS
Oaxaca

Los Tlacolulokos of Matamoros, Oaxaca, painted beautiful murals in the downtown Los Angeles public library, but are not allowed to return to the US to see them.

Dario Canul in the Tlacolulokos studio near the city of Oaxaca

HENRY MORALES PRINT DEMOS

Albuquerque

Henry Morales does a lot of wood block print demos in Albuquerque, often taking his press on site. He most recently did the print demo during the opening of New Mexico: Living Relief exhibition at Remarque Print Workshop. He usually brings his press for the Marigold Parade, Albuquerque's Day of the Dead parade in the South Valley.

Henry Morales doing a woodcut print demo,

at the Feb 1, 2109 opening of the exhibition

"New Mexico: Living Relief"

at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

Henry Morales print workshop

in the South Valley of Albuquerque

RAICES TALLER

Tucson

David Contreras prints at Raices Taller, a community gallery in Tucson. He is also a Frogman. Pictured below with Gonzalo Espinosa.

David Contreras (r) with Gonzalo Espinosa (l)

at Raices Taller in Tucson, Arizona

PUEBLA

We met a lot of great printmakers during the Desert Triangle exhibition in Puebla in 2017. Therefore we invited the Puebla printmakers to submit to Ambos Lados, and their work is absolutely outstanding! Thank you Puebla!

Puebla printmakers came to our Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition in 2017

The Puebla printmakers are -- Carlos Flores Rom, Irving Isaac Bustos Velez, Oscar Navarro Serrano, Roberto Rodriguez, and Erick Nahual Rosas Silva.

TALLER GRAFICA LIBRE

Oaxaca

Taller Grafica Libre in Zachilla, just outside the city of Oaxaca, is the studio of Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas. They organized most of the Mexican artists that submitted to Ambos Lados, and created a lot of those print editions in their studio.

Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas

operating the press in their studio in Zachilla

Toru Sugita at Taller Grafica Libre, 2016/17

Beatriz and Adrian receive a large roller from

Takach Press

when Manuel Guerra came to pick up the prints in Zachilla

Celebrating the Ambos Lados print exchange,

with many of the printmakers at Taller Grafica Libre,

when Manuel Guerra visited last December

HORNED TOAD PRINTS

El Paso

Horned Toad Prints is Manuel Guerra's studio on Alameda Street in El Paso, so close to the border that you can walk into Mexico in 30 minutes. With the help of printmakers extraordinaire -- Raul Monarrez and Francisco Delgado -- Manny churns out the prints and directs the US half of the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.

*BEFORE*

Horned Toad Prints before Ambos Lados kicked in

*AFTER*

In the thick of processing 158 Ambos Lados print editions

(l to r) Raul Monarrez, Manuel Guerra, and Francisco Delgado

at Horned Toad Prints in their current location

LATE AT NIGHT

View from Alameda street

when the prints get cooking

Pulqueria

Jalapa

Perhaps the best print venue ever -- a pulqueria! The show below is by the printmaker Zamer, in "La Otra" pulqueria in Jalapa, Veracruz. While this pulqueria show has nothing to do with Ambos Lados, the whole environment and presentation is worth mentioning.