Sunday, February 6, 2022

Opening Night at the Outpost Performance Space

We had a great opening in Albuquerque at the Outpost Performance Space/Inpost on Saturday, February 6th, 2022.  Thank you very much for having us Tom Guralnick, director of the Outpost!!!


Brooks Walch stepped up with his expertise
and made prints on the Tortilla Press during the opening


Big banner at the Outpost Performance Space
advertising Ambos Lados showing at the Inpost


Nice turnout for the opening


Juliana Kirwin standing underneath her print (l)
with Jeanette Cook (r)


Susan (Skuishii) Gonzalez pointing at her print --
she drove up all the way from El Paso to go to the opening


Eric and Meg from Denver (l) with Gabe (r)
pointing at Krrrl's print --
Gabe Jaureguibery gave us our first print show in Albuquerque
at Ace Barbershop in 2021









The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange was organized on both sides of the border

Ambos Lados was organized by Horned Toad Prints (director Manuel Guerra) in El Paso
and Taller Gráfica Libre in Zachilla, Oaxaca (Beatriz Rivas and Adrian Aguirre)



The curators Lacey Chrisco and Chandler Wigton
consulting just before the opening



LIVE PRINTING

See the 8 PRINTS made during the opening

We did live printing on a Tortilla Press, which was innovated by 3 Gatos Press from Guadalajara, the two members participated in Ambos Lados (Alejandra Mares and Xavier Moreno).  They invited us to do some Tortilla Press printing in Tlaquepaque when we visited in 2019.




Lacey Chrisco made the first successful Tortilla Press print.  She was also one of the two curators for the exhibition:

Lacey Chrisco with the first Tortilla Press print!






Chandler Wigton made the second Tortilla Press print.  He was one of two curators for the exhibition:

Chandler Wigton making his print on the Tortilla Press


Lacey Chrisco and Chander Wigton handed out 6 x 6 inch linoleum squares to their classmates taking printmaking this semester at CNM with Lyn Pierre, and to a few other artists too.  They brought in their linoleum plates and we printed them on the Tortilla Press during the opening:

Tom Brown





Tara Walch with her print


Stephanie Weiner



Brooks Walch holding his print




We will send the prints made at the opening to El Paso, and aim to have a pop-up print show with prints from Manuel Guerra's students at UTEP.  Then hopefully all the prints will come back and we will have the same pop-up print show in Albuquerque.  This is the start of the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS projects.





The new relief prints made during the opening
on the Tortilla Press


Susan "Shuishii" Gonzalez
stepped up to the Tortilla Press
and made a print from one of the Tres Gatos Press plates




Lawrence Welborn, Barbara Endicott and Heidi
we were pleasantly surprised that they came to the opening


Adric and Rebecca from Quelab came!!!






Brooks Walch jumped in and helped out a lot
making prints of his block as well as those of others
on the Tortilla Press!


Thank you Brooks Walch!




Prints on the table
some of which were given out for free during the opening





Catalogs


The Ambos Lados poster
hanging on the bulletin board at the Outpost






Thank you again Tom Guralnick, the director of the Outpost Performance Space:




UPDATE (February 20, 2022):  Lacey Chrisco was also the assistant curator for the the printmaking exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum -- Printer's Proof:  Artist and Printer Collaborations. In the photograph below she is introducing the master printmakers at the talk during the opening on February 19th, 2022:

Lacey Chrisco (left)
introducing the master printmakers 
during the talk at the Albuquerque Museum


Again, both Lacey Chrisco and Chandler Wigton curated this Ambos Lados show at the Outpost Performance Space.

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