Ambos Lados International Print Exchange

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Eli Levin and the Santa Fe Etching Club

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Eli Levin gave a talk at the Argos Studio/Gallery in Santa Fe, on August 19, 2018. With Sarah McCarty, he co-founded the Santa Fe Etching Club in 1981 (as well as founded the oldest Santa Fe Drawing Group, since 1969).

Eli Levin

co-founded the Santa Fe Etching Club

Eli has also participated in the last Horned Toad Print Exchange II and the YayBig Print Exchange before that. However, the talk was mostly about his tempera paintings and his new book, which was reviewed in the Santa Fe Reporter.

Eli Levin starting his public art talk

Eli Levin's etchings

Other Santa Fe Printmakers

Eric Thomson,

owner of the Argos Gallery

Abby Mattison

Chris Singleton

The Argos Studio Gallery in Santa Fe is the focus of lots of etching activity. In addition to being the home of the Santa Fe Etching Club, there is an annual exhibition from Dr. Robert Bell's print collection, featuring works of Duer, Rembrandt, Whistler, Klinger, Kollwitz, Rops and many more old masters.

On December 3rd,2017,

Dr Robert Bell gave a talk about his print collection

Friday, July 27, 2018

Horned Toad Prints World Headquarters

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Horned Toad Prints set up shop in a new space, next to the Mexican border, in El Paso.

3 from the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta --

Federico Villaba, Manuel Guerra, and Francisco Delgado as Duer,

wearing the printed mask by Tom Huck

Manuel Guerra,

owner of Horned Toad Prints

Manuel Guerra unpacks the first delivery

to the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange --

an edition by Tanya Rich,

printed by Octavio Irving in Habana

We had a shop chop made at "Made to Order Stamp and Seal" of Albuquerque -- which is "Southwest Rubber Stamp Company" online.

Francisco Delgado and Manuel Guerra

with the new Horned Toad Prints chop

Horned Toad Prints chop

Federico Villaba, Francisco Delgado, Manuel Guerra, Raul Monarrez

INSPIRATION

from looking at prints from other shops and talleres

Looking at the prints from Monterrey, Mexico

Manny received a print

from Angelica Bracho,

the director of Taller La Catrina

in Monterrey, Mexico

Manuel Guerra and Francisco Delgado

studying a print from Tom Huck --

scored in Houston

at the "It Came from the Bayou" event

Selection of prints

from the 2018 event in Houston

"It Came from the Bayou"

Showing of prints from Cuba and Florida

Marco Sanchez came by,

and showed off the new print he made in Zaachila, Oaxaca

at Taller Grafica Libre

Francisco Delgado

Francisco reading about the

Taller de Grafica Popular

Litho stones

Collaboration serigraph

between Manuel Guerra and Francisco Delgado

Wouldn't it be great

to show prints in

Laura Turon's Paradox bus?

Friday, July 20, 2018

Pavel Acevedo -- Linking Oaxaca and LA

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Pavel Acevedo was our first connection to Oaxaca, when we met him in Riverside, California (where he now lives), back in 2015. He grew up in Oaxaca, and set up a Oaxaca residency with Taller Grafica Libre, when Francisco Delgado created his print for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.

When we first met printmaker Pavel Acevedo

He also participated in the last Horned Toad Print Exchange II, as well as in the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.

Pavel's print

for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

Pavel just had an opening on July 14, 2018, at the Biblioteca Andrés Henestrosa in Oaxaca City, which was written up in the Imparcial newspaper of Oaxaca. The pictures below are from that exhibition: