Opening at the Taos Center for the Arts

We had a fantastic opening at the Taos Center for the Arts, Encore Gallery, on January 23rd, 2020, just like the do in Oaxaca.

Ambos Lados on the marquee

The opening was well attended

Before the night was over,

we had to replenish the catalog supply

The gallery is set

David Farmer with the book he wrote

on New Mexico printmaker Willard Clark

UNM Taos professor Gary Cook,

with Anita N Bringas, UNM Taos Strategic Support Manager,

and Louis Moya

Andy Johnson and Jane Farmer

receiving prints

(the Native American print is from the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta)

Professor Gary Cook

receiving the collaborative print by Raul Urias and Karl Whitaker,

made at Taller 75 Grados in Mexico City

Fond memories of Taos

Oaxaca Prints -- Taos Collectors

In September 2019, a group from Taos went to Oaxaca, visited print studios, and brought back a lot of great prints -- Carol and David Farmer, Joy and Frank Purcell, Jane Farmer and Andy Johnson.   Many of those prints are part of the greater exhibit, hung next to the Ambos Lados prints.

El Fascimo Recorre El Mundo

Fascism is World Wide

By ASARO Collective

(Yescka)

Woodblock for wall posting

The stencil below of the little girl refers to the murder of students by the Mexican government -- the Tlatelolco Massacre in 1968, and the 43 students that were killed in Iguala, in the state of Guerrero in 2014.

¡Mama Ya No Quiero Ir A La Escuela, Porque Luego Nos Desaparecen!

Mama I Don't Want To Go To School Now, Because Then We Disappear!

By ASARO Collective

(Yescka)

Stencil on newsprint

Kite print by Francisco Toledo

Woodblock

Kite prints by Francisco Toledo

Woodblock

ASARO Collective

"Adelita"

(Mario Guzman)

Enrique Flores

"Tarde de Otono"

Cooper plate etching

Daniel Flores

(Zanate Taller)

Intaglio

The Taos group visited Daniel Flores

at the Zanate Grafica studio in Oaxaca

in September 2019

Pablo Luzardo

Intaglio

Raul Soruco

"Asombro"

Color etching, aquatint

ASARO Collective

"Denunciar"

Woodblock Print

Manuel Bernal Flores

"Copal"

Chine colle etching

M Olivera

"Culebra de Tre Mundo"

Woodcut

Manuel Bernal Flores

Intaglio

ASARO Collective

Woodcut

Guillermo Olguin

"El Cuervo con Zapatas"

Lithography

Guillermo Olguin

Intaglio

Guillermo Olguin

"La Matanza"

Intaglio with photo images and drypoint

Alberto Cruz

Lithography

Saul Vasquez

Color etching

ASARO Collective book of prints

ASARO Collective book of prints

ASARO Collective book of prints --

street stencil of Francisco Toledo,

the day after he passed away

VIDEO

Also as part of the exhibition was a video from Oaxaca:

"The following video document is what is happening in Oaxaca with political protest art, some of which is on view now in the Encore Gallery.  These videos are courtesy of ASARO (Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca), and David and Carol Farmer."

Chelsea Reidy checks the video in the gallery

Ambos Lados Talk in Taos

Manuel Guerra warming up onstage
for the Ambos Lados talk and slideshow

This was the talk that Manuel Guerra and Karl Whitaker gave for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange exhibition in Taos, on Saturday, January 18, 2020, in the auditorium of the Taos Association for the Arts, from 3 - 4 PM.  The talk was entitled "Prints Travel Easily and Start Dialog (Our Experience in Mexico)."

This talk followed the auditorium talk by David Farmer "Printing the Future: Graphic Arts in Oaxaca."

The images and context of the talk can be seen in the five web pages below:

MAIN INDEX

• Part 1

• Part 2

• Part 3

• Part 4

• Part 5

The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange consists of 158 prints, roughly divided in half between Mexico and the United States, with 6 prints from other countries (2 from Australia, 2 from Cuba, one from Canada and one from Ireland).  "Ambos Lados" means "Both Sides," referring to both sides of the border.

It was an open call with an open theme, no submissions were turned away.  The artists created editions of 12 prints, in 8 x 8 inch format, and received 10 prints back, by different participating artists.

Part 1

• The Organizers
• Horned Toad Prints
• Taller Grafica Libre
• Taller Sin Miedo
• Previous Print Exchanges
• First Print Exchanges Combine
• First Trip to Oaxaca

Part 2

• Desert Triangle Print Carpeta
• The Second Horned Toad Print Exchange
• Mexican Print Shows
• It Begins!

Part 3

• Exhibitions
• Dallas Exhibition
• Santa Fe
• Southwest Print Fiesta 2019
• Mexican Adventure
• Guadalajara

Part 4

• Uruapan, Michoacan
• Mexico City
• Puebla

Part 5

• Oaxaca
• Presentation at the IAGO
• The Other Exhibition
• The Streets of Oaxaca
• More Photos
• En Fin

Prints Travel Easily

Prints travel easily. We can now send a box of prints in the mail to have an exhibition in the next city, or with FedEx and DHL, to have an exhibition anywhere else on the globe.  We can even drive framed prints to exhibitions across the Southwest. We cannot afford to do this with sculpture, or even paintings.  Therefore prints are best suited to have exhibitions in far away places, and to perpetuate artistic dialog around the world.  The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange, and our previous print projects, has attempted to do exactly this, most specifically in  Mexico, with the fabulous talent in that country.  And El Paso is the ideal place to travel prints, as that city is located right on the Mexican border, across from Ciudad Juarez.

Zip file of photos

Exe file of slide show (Windows)

AFTER THE TALK

We visited the frescoes in the old Taos County Courthouse.  Emil Bisttram had studied fresco painting with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, and took that knowledge back to the Taos artists to paint a series of frescoes in the 1930s.  Thus the Mexico/Taos connection goes way further back than Ambos Lados.

Manuel Guerra under the WPA fresco by Bert Phillips,

"The Shadow of Crime"

in the old Taos County Courthouse building

Manuel Guerra

pretending to bust out of the Taos Jail