We had an excellent Ambos Lados exhibition in Albuquerque at the Outpost Performance Space, from January 24th to April 29th, 2022. Thank you to Lacey Chrisco and Chandler Wigton for curating the show, and to Tom Guralnick director of the Outpost. This exhibition boosted more print activity in New Mexico, and buoyed up the Bucket Exhibitions project.
The poster
New Mexico printmaking POSTS:
- Ambos Lados coming to the Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Opening Night at the Outpost Performance Space
- Prints from the Ambos Lados Opening
- Tortilla Printing at Hecho Gallery in Santa Fe
- Print Catch Up
- Quick and Portable Printmaking Strategies
- Live Printmaking in Santa Fe -- HerHistory
- LaserPecker 2 Trial Engraves
- Print Weekend -- BUCKET EXHIBITIONS at North Fourth Art Center
- BUCKET EXHIBITONS
THE EXHIBITION
We had a great opening at the Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque on February 6th, 2022:
Albuquerque Museum Print Exhibition
During our Ambos Lados show the Albuquerque Museum had a huge print exhibition -- "The Printers Proof: Artist Printer and Collaborations" -- February 19 - May 15th, 2022. Lacey Chrisco was the associate curator for that exhibition, and Chandler Wigton was also part of it.
February 19, 2022
Lacey Chrisco (far left) moderating at the panel of printmakers
on the opening day,
Josie Lopez (far right) was the head curator
At the opening
David Takach Jr and Sr (front) from Takach Press,
and Cliff and Mary Sundstrom back
At the opening
Miranda Metcalf and Timothy Pauszek (right)of "Hello Print Friend"
came down from Santa Fe to the opening
Albuquerque Art Walk
March 8, 2022
selling prints at the Albuquerque downtown Art Walk
with another Tortilla Press
Tortilla Printing at Hecho Gallery
May 1, 2022
Bill Lagattuta speaking on stage
at the Albuquerque Museum
with Robert Arber and Marge Devon,
last talk of the "Printers Proof" exhibition
HerStory Paste-up Prints
On May 8th, 2022 they had a live printmaking event in front of the Axle Contemporary mobile art van at the Santa Fe Rail Yards:
We conceived a more modest exhibition strategy as a follow-up to Ambos Lados -- BUCKET EXHIBITIONS. Ten good framed 8x8 inch prints is a good pop-up exhibition. The concept is based on the cheap 8x8 inch front loading frames from Walmart:
Side Print Hustles
Skateboard Printing Press
Inspired by Joseph Velasquez, we made a Skateboard Press for printmaking at Quelab hackerspace in Albuquerque. Robert Atkinson actually did all the work:
Robert Atkinson made the Skateboard Press
at Quelab hackerspace in Albuquerque
Ethan from Quelab then made the first print on the Skateboard Press on May 15, 2022 at the Albuquerque Rail Yards Sunday market:
Ethan making the first Skateboard print
at the Quelab table
at the Albuquerque Rail Yards Sunday market
Portable Laser Engraver
Krrrl bought a portable laser engraver -- LaserPecker 2 -- to engrave linoleum to make prints. The maximum area of this laser engraver was only 4x4 inches (rather than the 6x6 inches we prefer), however we did manage to engrave deep enough in 30 minutes to make a relief print on the Tortilla Press.
- We also have a larger laser engraver at Quelab, so that we can laser cut 6x6 inch linoleum squares, and even larger sizes.
BUCKET EXHIBITIONS
The BUCKET EXHIBITIONS idea congealed when Horned Toad Prints (Raul Monarrez and Manuel Guerra) came up from El Paso to make prints in Santa Fe, at Hecho A Mano gallery, at the top of Canyon Road, in August 2021. The mighty Tortilla Press worked perfectly for printing on 8x8 inch paper:
In January 2022, Marcus Robiason and Joshua Woodhall made 8x8 inch prints in Tucson, on the Tortilla Press at the Sculpture Resource Center.
We had a 15 minute pop-up print show at the Cartel Coffee in downtown Tucson in January:
Manuel Guerra showed prints one night in a pop-up exhibition at the Alameda Art Salvage gallery in El Paso on March 17, 2022. These were the prints made during the Ambos Lados opening in Albuquerque on February 6, 2022, at the Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque.
Krrrl took the Tortilla Press to the figure drawing sessions on Thursday nights at the 4th Street Art Center, and made 8x8 inch prints during the model breaks:
Then we hung an exhibition of ten of those 8x8 inch prints at the North 4th Art Center on
May 6, 2022:
While we have been generating 8x8 inch prints on the Tortilla Press, we have also been soliciting 8x8 inch prints from El Paso, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Tucson, San Antonio, Mexico and even one from Australia, to show in a pop-up exhibition in El Paso during Memorial Day weekend, May 28th - 30th, 2022, at the Alameda Art Salvage gallery, just a short walk from the Mexican border. Opening Saturday, May 28th, 6 - 10 PM:
UPCOMING!
In July from the 10th - 24th, we will be exhibiting 8x8 inch prints in Santa Fe, in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van.
Our show in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van will be part of the PRINTED MATTER festival on Sunday, July 10th, in the Santa Fe Railyard Complex:
