Ambos Lados Opening in Silver City, New Mexico

Ambos Lados had a great opening in Silver City, New Mexico, on Friday, October 11th, 2019.  This opening started the 4th Annual Southwest Print Fiesta.  It was at the Light Art Space, which also housed two other print exhibitions at the opening -- "Obsessions: Juried Exhibition of Hand Pulled Prints," and "Pull: 5 Female Printamakers" from Arizona.

The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange

was in the back room

Thank you to those in the photo below (left to right): Karen Hymer, the owner of the Light Art Space (and Ambos Lados printmaker), Manuel Guerra, organizer of Ambos Lados from the United States, and Kevin Lenkner, executive director of the Mimbres Region Art Council, which put on the Southwest Print Fiestas.

(l to r) Karen Hymer, Manuel Guerra, and Kevin Lenkner

Light Art Space 

in Silver City, New Mexico

Three openings at the Light Art Space:

Ambos Lados, Obsession, and Pull

Ambos Lados prints

hanging in the hallway to the back room

Entering the back room

We had a good turnout all night

for the Ambos Lados exhibition

An enthused visitor

showing a huge preference for one of the prints

Turns out, this is the printmaker's husband,

print by Kimberly McCarthy

Jessica Weybright 

of Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

stands in front of her print

Susan Gonzalez (Skuishi) of El Paso,

stands in front of her print

Catalogs -- both of Ambos Lados,

the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta,

and previous other print projects

The front room of the Light Art Space

during the opening,

where the Obsession juried show was hung

Amos played for us during the opening

The next day, Maestro Arturo Negrete

from Taller 75 Grados in Mexico City

points out a print of his paisano

Maestro Arturo Negrete

of Taller 75 Grados in Mexico City

did the poster for the Southwest Print Fiesta

Warm and blurry after the opening

Salud!

Manuel Guerra with Natalie Good

Silver City, New Mexico -- hanging the exhibition

On October 1st, 2019, we hung the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange in Silver City at the Light Art Space.  The opening is from 5 - 8 PM, on Friday, October 11th, during the Southwest Print Fiesta.  The exhibition runs October 1 - 28, 2019.

Silver City, New Mexico 

(overlooking Western New Mexico University)

We are exhibiting the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2019 this year -- October 11 - 13, 2019.

Southwest Print Fiesta 2019

Last year we exhibited the previous print exchange -- the Horned Toad II Print Exchange -- at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2018.

Opening for the Horned Toad II Print Exchange

during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2018

This year's exhibition will be at the LIGHT ART SPACE, owned and managed by Karen Hymer, who also participated in the Ambos Lados print exchange.

Light Art Space

Karen Hymer arranging the first six prints

Karen Hymer measuring

Karen Hymer measures and nails,

while Henry Morales looks on

In process,

hanging with a laser level

THE PRINTS

The prints in the gallery (see them individually at this link):

Gallery video tour

on the Light Art Space Instagram

3 PRINT EXHIBITIONS

At the Light Art Space

There will actually be three simultaneous print exhibitions at the Light Art Space during the Southwest Print Fiesta. 

Prints arriving at the LIGHT ART SPACE

for the OBSESSION exhibition,

with the Ambos Lados prints hanging in the background

  From the Southwest Print Fiesta website:

1. OBSESSION is an exhibition of hand-pulled prints responding to the idea of a compulsive preoccupation with an object, idea, person, place, memory, phobia, pattern, thought, image, shape, word, and more. This exhibition will highlight the many visual guises that infatuation can take and challenge the viewer's relationship to their own habitual fixations and proclivities. -See Below for Submission Guidelines -
   Exhibition on view October 11- November 10, 2019 Reception Friday, October 11th 5 – 8pm
2. 
   
3. 5 FEMALE PRINTMAKERS: This exhibition features the work of 5 female printmakers from Tucson, Arizona. Jo Anderson, Penny Batelli, Norma Galindo, Maria Lee, and Glory Tacheenie-Campoy present a variety of techniques including mono-prints, etching, linocuts, letterpress and solar plate printing in two and three-dimensional forms.
   Exhibit dates: October 11th – November 10th Reception Friday, October 11th 5 – 8pm
4. 
   
5. AMBROS LADOS INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXCHANGE: "Ambos Lados" means both sides. This print exchange was organized from both sides of the border -- by Manuel Guerra of Horned Toad Prints in El Paso, and by Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas of Taller Grafica Libre in Zaachila, Oaxaca. The 158 prints are fairly evenly split between the two countries -- with 72 from Mexico, 80 from the United States, and 6 from other countries, Australia, Canada, Cuba and Ireland.
   Exhibit dates: October 11th – November 10th Reception Friday, October 11th 5 – 8pm

SILVER CITY

Bullard Street

Henry Morales in front of the 

The Jumping Cactus Coffee House

Power and Light Press

a huge letter press studio

Southwest Print Fiesta 2019 schedule

on the door of Power and Light Press

Leaving Silver City

The VLA

We drove by the Very Large Array on the way back to Albuquerque. 

The VLA 

collection of radio telescopes in New Mexico

Stickers at the rest stop

for the VLA

Warhol everywhere

VILLAGE PRESS PRINT STUDIO

Magdalena, New Mexico

Just beyond the VLA in Magdalena, New Mexico, is the Village Print Studio, a private letterpress print studio.

Village Press Print Studio

Henry Morales lost in the Village Press Print Studio

Last year, in 2018, Village Press Print Studio

participated in the Southwest Print Fiesta --

Laurie Taylor Gregg in their booth

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

This will be our 3rd Ambos Lados exhibition, after Dallas and Santa Fe.  Next stop, Taos in January, 2020.

We are also showing a different collection of prints -- the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta -- at the Las Cruces Museum of Art -- November 1, 2019 - January 4, 2020.  Several Ambos Lados printmakers are also in the Desert Triangle.

Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

showing at the Las Cruces Museum of Art

November 1, 2019 -- January 4, 2020