Ambos Lados International Print Exchange

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Printmaker Spotlights -- Part 3

THE PRINTS

Part 3 of the magical things about the Ambos Lados printmakers and prints:

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MONTERREY
Taller La Catrina

Angelica Bracho runs Taller La Catrina in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Last year, when she showed the Horned Toad II Print Exchange, she helped decide on the title "Ambos Lados," and thus launched this print exchange on full speed.

Angelica Bracho (center) and helpers

hung the Horned Toad II Print Exchange

in her studio, Taller La Catrina

She sent work by 9 other different printmakers to Ambos Lados -- Adrian Aguilar Reyes, Jesus Manuel Alanis Garza, Leonardo Ayala Guillen (Beo Hake), Miguel Angel Cantu Garcia, Gustavo Garza Sanchez (Gustavo Dinosaurio), Frida Astrid Lopez Puga, Alma Rosa Romero, David Urias Castro (David Davenport), Valeria Leticia Valencia Gorostieta (Vale Valencia).

HORNED TOAD II PRINT EXCHANGE
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

The previous print exchange -- Horned Toad II Print Exchange -- included 6 printmakers from Oaxaca, 44 of whom are in Ambos Lados -- Adrian Aguirre, Jorge Mendoza, Beatriz Rivas, Andrea Velasquez. After showing the Horned Toad II in Oaxaca in 2017, it was obvious that there had to be a print follow-up of some sort.

The Horned Toad II Print Exchange exhibition

at Espacio Centro in Oaxaca in 2017

Also many US printmakers in the Horned Toad II print exchange are in Ambos Lados -- Pavel Acevedo, Christin Apodaca, Aaron Bass, Laurie D Brown, Glenn Buack, Ashley B Cranney, Diane Davis, Francisco Delgado, Jules Floss, Sam Garcia, Susan Gonzalez (Skuiski), Manuel Guerra, Eric Hodgins, Brian Lane, Eli Levin, Abby Mattison, Raul Monarrez, Henry Morales, Lyn Nicholls, Augustine Romero, Humberto Saenz, Marco Sanchez, Alan Serna, Diane Vera, Jim Weaver, and Karl Whitaker.

The Horned Toad II Print Exchange

was shown during the Southwest Print Fiesta

in Silver City, 2018

Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art:

Artists, Work, Culture, and Education

2 Volume Book
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

Both Francisco Delgado and Augustine Romero are listed in this 2 volume set of on profiles of Chicano artists -- Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Work Culture and Education.

Francisco Delgado (vol 1, p 16)

and Augustine Romero (vol 2, p242)

are profiled in the book

Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art

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SERIE PROJECT
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3 artists in Ambos Lados are in the Serie Project, a huge fine art serigraph shop in Austin, Texas, run by the late Sam Coronado. Francisco Delgado (2003-04), Manuel Guerra (2004-05), Alec Dempster (2005-06)

Alec Dempster's print listed

in the 2005-06 cycle of Serie prints

DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

9 Ambos Lados printmakers are in the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta -- Pavel Acevedo, Gonzalo Espinosa, Tanya Rich, Karl Whitaker, Henry Morales, Francisco Delgado, Manuel Guerra, Raul Monarrez, and Victor Muheddine,.

The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

showing at the El Paso Museum of Art in 2016

ex-ACADEMIA DE SAN CARLOS
Mexico City

Cuauhtemoc Kamffer and Karl Whitaker went to ENAP-UNAM art school together, the ex-Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, which was originally established as a school of engraving in 1781.

Cuauhtemoc Kamffer signing a print

long before this print exchange

TLACOLULOKOS
Oaxaca

Los Tlacolulokos of Matamoros, Oaxaca, painted beautiful murals in the downtown Los Angeles public library, but are not allowed to return to the US to see them.

Dario Canul in the Tlacolulokos studio near the city of Oaxaca

HENRY MORALES PRINT DEMOS

Albuquerque

Henry Morales does a lot of wood block print demos in Albuquerque, often taking his press on site. He most recently did the print demo during the opening of New Mexico: Living Relief exhibition at Remarque Print Workshop. He usually brings his press for the Marigold Parade, Albuquerque's Day of the Dead parade in the South Valley.

Henry Morales doing a woodcut print demo,

at the Feb 1, 2109 opening of the exhibition

"New Mexico: Living Relief"

at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

Henry Morales print workshop

in the South Valley of Albuquerque

RAICES TALLER

Tucson

David Contreras prints at Raices Taller, a community gallery in Tucson. He is also a Frogman. Pictured below with Gonzalo Espinosa.

David Contreras (r) with Gonzalo Espinosa (l)

at Raices Taller in Tucson, Arizona

PUEBLA

We met a lot of great printmakers during the Desert Triangle exhibition in Puebla in 2017. Therefore we invited the Puebla printmakers to submit to Ambos Lados, and their work is absolutely outstanding! Thank you Puebla!

Puebla printmakers came to our Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition in 2017

The Puebla printmakers are -- Carlos Flores Rom, Irving Isaac Bustos Velez, Oscar Navarro Serrano, Roberto Rodriguez, and Erick Nahual Rosas Silva.

TALLER GRAFICA LIBRE

Oaxaca

Taller Grafica Libre in Zachilla, just outside the city of Oaxaca, is the studio of Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas. They organized most of the Mexican artists that submitted to Ambos Lados, and created a lot of those print editions in their studio.

Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas

operating the press in their studio in Zachilla

Toru Sugita at Taller Grafica Libre, 2016/17

Beatriz and Adrian receive a large roller from

Takach Press

when Manuel Guerra came to pick up the prints in Zachilla

Celebrating the Ambos Lados print exchange,

with many of the printmakers at Taller Grafica Libre,

when Manuel Guerra visited last December

HORNED TOAD PRINTS

El Paso

Horned Toad Prints is Manuel Guerra's studio on Alameda Street in El Paso, so close to the border that you can walk into Mexico in 30 minutes. With the help of printmakers extraordinaire -- Raul Monarrez and Francisco Delgado -- Manny churns out the prints and directs the US half of the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.

*BEFORE*

Horned Toad Prints before Ambos Lados kicked in

*AFTER*

In the thick of processing 158 Ambos Lados print editions

(l to r) Raul Monarrez, Manuel Guerra, and Francisco Delgado

at Horned Toad Prints in their current location

LATE AT NIGHT

View from Alameda street

when the prints get cooking

Pulqueria

Jalapa

Perhaps the best print venue ever -- a pulqueria! The show below is by the printmaker Zamer, in "La Otra" pulqueria in Jalapa, Veracruz. While this pulqueria show has nothing to do with Ambos Lados, the whole environment and presentation is worth mentioning.

Pulqueria --

the ideal venue for a printmaking show

Summary -- Spotlights on our Printmakers

Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 1

Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 2

Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 3

Printmaker Spotlights -- Part 2

THE PRINTS

Part 2 of the magical things about the Ambos Lados printmakers and prints:

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TORU SUGITA

Toru Sugita of San Francisco is represented by Davidson Galleries in Seattle (specializing in prints). Toru enjoyed a print residency at Taller Grafica Libre in Zachilla in December 2016 - January 2017. He exhibited his prints at Espacio Centro, run by Nidia Rosales Moreno, and maestro Shinzaburo Takeda came to the opening.

(Left to right) Toru Sugita, Shinzaburo Takeda,

Misayo Tsutsui and Fumiyo Yoshikawa (artist and Toru's wife)

at Toru's opening in Oaxaca City

Maestro Shinzaburo Takeda taught printmaking to the current explosive generation of young Oaxacan printmakers.

CUBA

2 printmakers from Habana, Cuba submitted to the Ambos Lados print exchange -- Octavio Irving and Orlando Almanza. Octavio Irving ran the prestigious large Taller Experimental de Gráfica when President Obama visited Cuba in 2016. He printed Tanya Rich's edition when we visited Habana in the summer of 2018.

Octavio Irving of Habana, Cuba

YouTube video of

Taller Experimental de Grafica

in Habana, Cuba

OAXACA COLLECTIVE

CARPETA NACIONAL DE ESTAMPA EN MEXICO
Overlap with AMBOS LADOS

Pavel Acevedo and Roberto Rodriguez are both in the Oaxaca Collective Carpeta, organized by Irving Herrera, and was very inspirational for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta and other print projects that we have undertaken.

Pavel Acevedo, printmaker originally from Oaxaca,

showing the Oaxaca carpeta at Urge Palette

in Riverside, California

Pavel Acevedo set up our first connection to Oaxaca, when he arranged for Francisco Delgado to make his Desert Triangle edition at Taller Grafica Libre in 2015.

SANTA FE ETCHING CLUB

Eli Levin and Sarah McCarty started the Santa Fe Etching Club in 1981, and it continues at Argos Studio/Gallery to this day. Eli is pictured below with Abby Mattison.

Eli Levin and Abby Mattison

at the Santa Fe Etching Club in Argos Gallery,

standing in front of Eli's wall of prints

Below, Argos Studio/Gallery owner Eric Thomson helps Mary Lawler on the press at the Santa Fe Etching Club. Mary Teichman, from Massachusetts, gave a printmaking workshop there in December 2017.

Eric Thomson and Mary Lawler

work the old time press

at Argos Studio/Gallery

Dr Robert Bell

lecturing about his print collection on the walls of Argos Gallery,

featuring Rembrandt, Duer and many old masters

URUAPAN, MICHOACAN

The printmakers from MAPECO, in Uruapan, Michoacan, gave us 14 masterpieces -- Matias Alvarez Cervantes, Eunice Barajas Murguia, Edgar Miguel Cerda Avila, Maria Rosa Cervantes Bernal, Christhian Diaz Reyes, Samuel Diaz Gaona, Daphna Garibay Rubio, Hectores, Miriam Veronica Jarillo Perez, Gilberto Raul Mendoza Martinez, Alfonso Pola Castandeda, Angelica Ramirez Galeana, Irma Reyes Almanza, Olga Tolo! The photos on this blog entry.

Some of the printmakers from Uruapan

Samuel Diaz Gaona of Uruapan created his with "Camafeo Sobre Tetrapack" technique, which seems like "milk carton drypoint." A Tetra Pak is the container that holds juice or other fluids. Note the horizontal lines on Samuel's print, indicating that he unfolded a juice container or such, and then scratched lines into it to make this beautiful print.

Samuel Diaz Gaona used a

"milk carton drypoint" technique

with a "Tetra Pak"

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO

Printmaking Department

The University of Texas at San Antonio has an excellent printmaking department! And we had a great response from San Antonio -- Professor Humberto Saenz, Omar Gonzalez, Lacey Mills, Aaron Pozos, Jon Stahly, Alan Serna, Madison Cowles Serna

Professors Kent Rush (l) and Juan De Dios Mora

reviewing a Luis Jimenez print

when we visited the printmaking department

of the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2016

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REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP

Albuquerque

Jessica Weybright, one of the 4 owners of Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque, submitted to the Ambos Lados print exchange. So did Kimberly McCarthy, who is currently an intern at Remarque Print Workshop.

Jessica Weybright (right)

with the other 3 owners of Remarque Print Workshop,

(l to r) Jessica Krichols, Lincoln Draper, Mary Sundstorm

Remarque Print Workshop has been very supportive of our print projects. They hosted the "From Behind the Wall: Prints by Contemporary Mexican Maestros" in 2017, showing our Mexican print collection. And previously, when it was New Grounds Print Workshop under Regina Held, they editioned Ruben Moreno's print for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.

TAMARIND INSTITUTE

Albuquerque

Tamarind Institute is part of the University of New Mexico. Ben Schoenburg has gone through the program and currently works there.

Ben Schoenburg

receiving his prints at Tamarind

TAKACH PRESS

Albuquerque

Takach Press is also located in Albuquerque, and this is where we buy printmaking supplies. They cut a lot of the paper we bought, into 8 x 8 inch squares, so that we could send it off to Oaxaca to start this print exchange. Aaron Bass works for Takach Press.

Aaron Bass is not pulling the lever

Summary -- Spotlights on our Printmakers

Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 1

Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 2

Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 3

Friday, February 15, 2019

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

2017 (53 prints)

Diane Davis

2018 (62 prints)

Diane Davis

Summary -- Spotlights on our Printmakers

Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 1

Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 2

Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 3

Sending Out the Prints

The prints are going out to the artists! Most of the print packages are in the mail, or have been handed directly to the artists in the United States. The Mexican prints still need to be sent out (as shipping over borders is a little more complicated).