Ambos Lados International Print Exchange: 2021

Saturday, December 4, 2021

Closing at Casa Ortiz -- El Paso/Socorro, Texas

The closing for Ambos Lados was on Black Friday, November 26, 2021 -- at Casa Ortiz in Socorro, Texas, just outside of El Paso.

Casa Ortiz is beautiful!

In Socorro, Texas

The closing

PRINTS

Due to space limitations, not all the prints could be exhibited:

Manuel Guerra, who organized Ambos Lados from El Paso,

gave out free prints at the closing,

of images carved by Tres Gatos of Guadalajara

Rising printmaker Mario Alonso Perez has a studio at Casa Ortiz, and needs to be shown in future exhibitions:

Mario Alonso Perez

Likewise printmaker John Ibarra has a studio at Casa Ortiz, and needs to be shown in future exhibitions:

John Ibarra

We took down the Ambos Lados exhibition on November 30th:

We packed up Ambos Lados

in 10 boxes

Next Stop, January 2022: At the Inpost in Albuquerque, in The Outpost

Friday, November 5, 2021

Ambos Lados showing in El Paso -- at Casa Ortiz

The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange is showing -- from November 5 - November 30, 2021 -- at Casa Ortiz, just south of El Paso, near the Rio Grande river and the border with Mexico. The opening is on Friday, November 5th, from 5 - 10 PM.

Ambos Lados in El Paso

Manuel Guerra at Casa Ortiz

Casa Ortiz is located in Socorro, Texas -- at 10167 Socorro Rd, Socorro, TX 79927. One can get there by taking I-10 or Loop 375.

Casa Ortiz is located

south of El Paso

One can get there

driving south on I-10

10167 Socorro Rd, Socorro, TX 79927

Diego "Robot" runs the Casa Ortiz gallery and was interviewed by KTSM 9 TV:

Diego "Robot" gallery director

talking about Casa Ortiz

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Tzompantli paste-up in Guadalajara

https://tinyurl.com/Tzomp

More collaborative interaction:

Los Tres Gatos solicited images of skulls which they will paste-up on the streets of Guadalajara to make a TZOMPANTLI -- Aztec skull rack -- during the Day of the Dead in 2021.

Tzompantli call to artists

(ended October 29, 2021)

UPDATE (December 17, 2021):

Tres Gatos Press pasted-up the Tzompantli in the Panteón de Mezquitán, and posted photos on Instagram:

Tzompantli pasted up in Guadalajara

A Tzompantli

is an Aztec trophy skull rack

Part of Tzompantli

pasted elsewhere in Guadalajara

UPDATE (January 3, 2022):

There is an article in Spanish in the Informador newspaper from the 2nd of January, 2022 about the Tzompantli paste-up in the Panteon de Mezquitan:

The Informador.Mx article

about the Tzompantli paste-ups

MapHub shows the locations of all the Tzompantli paste-ups in Guadalajara:

MapHub locations of all the paste-up prints

ALL 70 Individual Skulls

View all the Calavera Skulls individually at this LINK:

tzompantli-paste-up.blogspot.com

Julianna Kirwin also pasted up her skulls

outside her studio in Albuquerque

Artists from all over emailed skull drawings to Guadalajara -- from Mexico, USA, Guatemala(?), Croatia, Scotland, England, Canada, France, Colombia, and Ireland

pencils2pixels.art posted about this blog post on Instagram!!!

Tortilla Press printmaking

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We followed the example of Los Tres Gatos Press and used a Tortilla Press to make 8 x 8 inch prints on the streets of New Mexico -- in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Silver City.

Horned Toad Prints of El Paso

(Raul Monarrez (l) and Manuel Guerra (r),

cranking out prints on the Tortilla Press

at Hecho A Mano gallery in Santa Fe

Los Tres Gatos of Guadalajara innovated the Tortilla Press for making prints. Joseph Velasquez of Drive By Press sold us one of these Tortilla Presses made with their design.

The Tortilla Press which we bought,

innovated by Los Tres Gatos

and built by Joseph Velasquez

Joseph Velasquez made a YouTube video about how to use the Tortilla Press:

Joseph Velasquez

demonstrating how to use the Tortilla Press

NEW MEXICO

TORTILLA PRESS PRINTING

Albuquerque

August 6, 2021

Printing with the Tortilla Press

in Albuquerque, August 6, 2021

Santa Fe

August 7, 2021

Manuel Guerra

working the Tortilla Press

in front of Hecho A Mano gallery

at the top of Canyon Road

Video of the Tortilla Press printing

Santa Fe

August 27, 2021

Five artists from Hecho A Mano gallery carved linoleum plates for us to print on the tortilla press. Also Alejandra Mares and Xavier Moreno of Los Tres Gatos Press, sent two plates from Guadalajara for us to print as well.

Some of the linocuts

for tortilla printing

Silver City

for the Southwest Print Fiesta

October 9, 2021

Horned Toad Prints

cranking out prints on the tortilla press

at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2021 in Silver City

Printmaking during the fuzzy Covid era

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Printmaking in Times of Covid

The whole world has been on pause during the Covid 19 epidemic. We have been on lockdown for a whole year now in New Mexico here in the United States. No one has been able to exhibit Ambos Lados during this time, but now things are starting to thaw out in March, 2021. Below is what happened during lockdown, and some things to look forward to.

JUAN SANDOVAL

(1946 - 2021)

Juan Sandoval in 2017

admiring the Shinzaburo Takeda print

at the El Paso Museum of Art

Juan Sandoval was a major print collector from El Paso who also spent a lot of time in Oaxaca, and collected prints by those artists. We followed Juan Sandoval's lead when producing both the Ambos Lados and the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta projects. We were proud to dedicate the Ambos Lados catalog to Juan Sandoval. He passed away on January 3, 2021.

We dedicated the Ambos Lados catalog

to Juan Sandoval

Juan Sandoval was one of the major US collectors of Latin prints, and donated his print collection to the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas. Currently Mexic-Arte is exhibiting the Juan Sandoval collection -- Mexico, the Border, and Beyond: Selections from the Juan Sandoval Jr Collection -- from December 19, 2020 - August 22, 2021.

Juan Sandoval Jr art collection

showing at Mexic-Arte

Photo from the Juan Sandoval exhibition

at Mexic-Arte

MINIPRINT

Taller Grafica Libre of Zaachila, Oaxaca co-sponsored the MiniPrint exhibition between Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico. Manuel Guerra was invited to be one of the judges.