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 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.



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





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.





PAVEL ACEVEDO
at Self Help Graphics

Pavel Acevedo is the artist-in-residence at Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles, in the Beyond the Press program.



Pavel is participating in the Virtual Printmaking Summit at Self Help Graphics, on March 10 - 12, 2021.




ALEC DEMPSTER





Marcus Robiason got really busy making prints in Tucson during the pandemic:

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