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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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"

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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.

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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).

When the prints first started coming in

December 2018

Video of all the prints laid out,

Redistribution --

selecting 10 prints for each artist

Francisco Delgado, Manuel Guerra, and Raul Monarrez

making boxes to put the prints in,

before mailing

Below are photos of artist who received their packages of prints in Albuquerque (since your blogger is from Albuquerque):

Aaron Bass

at Takach Press

Augustine Romero

City of Albuquerque curator

at the South Broadway Cultural Center

Ben Schoenburg

at Tamarind Institute

Calliandra Hermanson

at the University of New Mexico

Henry Morales and model Virigina

at the drawing studio in Barelas,

near downtown Albuquerque

Jessica Weybright

co-owner of Remarque Print Workshop

Juana Estrada Hernandez
at the University of New Mexico

print studio

Julianna Kirwin

in front of her gallery at her house

Kimberly McCarthy

intern at Remarque Print Workshop

Malcolm King

at 111 Media Collective, downtown Albuquerque

where he works as a screen printer

Curtis Wilson III

in front of  his print of the opening --

New Mexico: Living Relief,

at Remarque Print Workshop

There is some excitement brewing on Instagram, by some printmakers who may, or may not have yet, gotten their prints:

Instagram posting from ogprints

Instagram posting from igloomartian

(Marcus Robiason)

The Prints

tinyurl.com/ambosprints

PRINTS

AMBOS 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.


Thumbnail blogs:
...to get an overview of all the prints (in alphabetical order) :

Ambos Lados -- USA and World

Ambos Lados -- Mexican Prints

We received 158 prints:

• 80 from the United States
• 72 from Mexico
• 6 from the rest of the world 

** W O R L D  (6) **

Orlando Almanza

from Cuba

AUSTRALIA (2)

CANADA (1)

CUBA (2)

IRELAND (1)

**  U N I T E D  S T A T E S  (80) **

TEXAS (28)

Part 1 -- (14)

Celeste De Luna

of Harlingen, Texas


Part 2 -- (14)

Raul Monarrez

of El Paso

Arizona -- (9)

Joshua Woodhall 

of Tucson

California -- (8)

Pavel Acevedo

of Riverside

Florida -- (3)

J Leigh Garcia

of Pensacola

New Mexico -- (18)

Eli Levin

of Santa Fe/Dixon

Washington --(4)

Laurie D Brown

of Seattle

Rest of the US -- (10)

Mary Teichman

of Massachusetts

**  M E X I C O  -- (72)  **

List of Mexican printmakers by taller/studio

OAXACA -- (33)


Taller_Grafica_Libre -- (12)

Xolotl Torrenteraof Oaxaca

Other Oaxaca Talleres -- (21):


Inocencio L Villegas
of Oaxaca

Espacio_Artistico_Xicotencalt (6)
Los_Tlacolulocos (1)
Taller Burbuja (2)
Taller_Dund (3)
Taller_Estudio_Yucucasa (3)
Taller_Grafica_Ojo_Tres (3)
Santall3r (2)

Individual

Delgado, Gilberto

GUANAJUATO -- (3)

Xavier Moreno

of Leon, Guanajuato

3_Gatos_Press (2)
Taller_de_Grafica_La_Garrapata (1)

MEXICO CITY --(7)

Cuauhtemoc Kamffer

of Mexico City

Taller_de_Grafica_El_Ajolote (2)
Taller_Manos_Negras (2)
Taller_Particular (1)

Individual

Kamffer, Cuauhtemoc 
Dempster, Alec

 URUAPAN, Michoacan -- (14) 

Maria Rosa Cervantes Bernal

of Uruapan, Morelia

Taller_Escuela_MAPECO (14)


 MONTERREY, NuevoLeon -- (10)

Taller La Catrina (10)

David Urias Castro

from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon

PUEBLA --(5)

Carlos Flores ROM

of Puebla

Museo Taller Erasto Cortés (4)

Individual

Flores Rom, Carlos

Image by Christin Apodaca


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Summary -- Spotlights on our Printmakers

• Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 1

• Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 2

• Printmakers Spotlights -- Part 3