Ambos Lados International Print Exchange: Printmaker Spotlights -- Part 1

THE PRINTS

Part 1 of the magical things about the Ambos Lados printmakers and prints:

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GLENN BUACK

There is a beautiful video online of Glenn Buack from Tucson, talking about his prints.

Glenn Buack talks about his prints

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TORTILLA PRESS

Xavier Moreno and Alejandra Mares of 3 Gatos Press produced their prints on a tortilla press in Mexico.

Xavier Moreno making prints on a tortilla press

Alejandra Mares making prints on a tortilla press

3 Gatos Press

using a tortilla press to make prints

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BICYCLE PRINT SHOP

CHINA/RIVERSIDE

C Matthew Luther of Riverside, California, created mobile print studios in both China and Riverside. This is amazing!

China mobile print shop

from C Matthew Luther's website

Screen capture from the

Riverside Mobile Print Cart website

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COLLAGRAPH STUDIO

Oaxaca

Espacio Artistico Xicotencalt of Oaxaca produces mostly collagraphs. They contributed 6 prints to Ambos Lados.

Karla Vazquez created her collagraph print

at Espacio Artistico Xicotencalt in Oaxaca

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JULIANNA IN OAXACA

Julianna Kirwin of Albuquerque visited Oaxaca to make prints in February.

Julianna Kirwin with Enrique Flores (left)

at his studio in Oaxaca

30 YEARS OF OAXACA EXHIBITION

Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

While she was there, she saw the IAGO XXX Anniversario exhibition -- 30 years of Oaxacan printmakers -- at Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca in the center of Oaxaca City.

Catalog for the exhibition

of 30 years of Oaxaca printmakers

at IAGO

Many famous printmakers were in this exhibition, including Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo, and Rudolfo Morales.

There are also many well known local printmakers in this exhibition as well, such as Alan Altamirano, Cesar Chavez, Demián Flores, Dr Larka, Edith Chavez, Enrique Flores, Francisco Limón, Ixrael Montes, Mario Guzman, Maximino Javier, Sergio Hernandez, Shinzaburo Takeda, and Yeska to name a few. **Plus Daniel Hernandez, who is currently showing in Santa Fe.

ALSO -- if you look at the list of printmakers, you'll see that there is some overlap between them and Ambos Lados, including -- Beatriz Rivas Palacios, Dulce Aquino Monterrey, Geraldo Martinez, Innocencio Lopez Villegas, and Pako Altamirano.

Some of these Oaxaca printmakers are also in our

Ambos Lados Print Exchange

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OTHER INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXCHANGES
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

Some of the Ambos Lados printmakers have participated in other international print exchanges:

IPE International Print Exchange (United Kingdom):

The International Print Exchange is an unjuried print exchange with no assigned theme, open to all, that celebrates fine art printmaking.

The IPE is a self-funded project organised by Green Door Printmaking Studio.

Also, the IPE self-publishes catalogs, and makes posters of each print exchange.

Hanging an IPE print exchange show

All the printmakers listed in the below print exchanges also participated in Ambos Lados.

IPE #1 2009 (84 prints):

Jules Floss

IPE #2 2010 (104 prints)

Jules Floss

IPE #3 2011 (88 prints):

Darlene Kalynka

IPE #4 2012 (76 prints):

Lani Shapton, Lyn Nicholls, Frances Crum, Darlene Kalynka

IPE #5 2013 (51 prints):

Lani Shapton, Lyn Nicholls

IPE #6 2014 (86 prints):

Lyn Nicholls

IPE #7 2015 (162 prints):

Ashley B Cranney

IPE #8 2016 (189 prints):

Diane Davis, Lyn Nicholls, Ashley B Cranney

IPE #9 2017 (201 prints):

Lani Shapton, Diane Davis, Frances Crum

IPE #10 2018 (236 prints):

Lani Shapton, Diane Davis, Jim Weaver, Carnegie Muir, Elaine Crowe, Carl Richardson

La Calaca Press International Print Exchange (Chicago)

2011 (151 prints)

Brian Lane, Abraham McCowan

2012 (199 prints)

Humberto Saenz

2013 (235 prints)

Ashley B Cranney, Celeste De Luna

Dialogos E Interpretaciones (North Carolina and Colombia -- run in part by Jules Floss)

Interpretaciones 1 -- 2012 (39 prints)

Jules Floss

Interpretaciones II 2013 (59 prints)

Lani Shapton, Jules Floss, Manuel Guerra, Francisco Delgado, Karl Whitaker, Raul Monarrez, Aryk Gardea

Interpretaciones III 2014 (72 prints)

Lani Shapton, Jules Floss, Frances Crum

Interpretaciones VI 2015 (78 prints)

Lani Shapton, Jules Floss, Frances Crum, Manuel Guerra, Raul Monarrez, Karl Whitaker, Samuel Garcia, Michael Ehlbeck, Gonzalo Espinosa

Print Zero Print Exchange (Seattle -- run by Brian Lane)

International Print Exchange #9 2016 (111 prints)

Diane Davis, Manuel Guerra, Francisco Delgado, Raul Monarrez, Karl Whitaker, Jim Weaver, Sam Garcia, Diane Vera, Glenn Buack, Connor Furr, Laurie Brown

9INHAND PRINT EXCHANGE