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

Taos Exhibition and Talks

THE TAOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND UNM TAOS PRESENT AMBOS LADOS

The 4th Ambos Lados exhibition opened on January 13th, 2020 -- and Manuel Guerra and Karl Whitaker gave a talk on Saturday, January 18th, 2020.

Carlo Flores Rom's print, 

made the cover of the "Tempo" magazine,

the insert in the Taos News newspaper, January 9 - 15, 2020

Ambos Lados gets the top red banner

in the Taos News newspaper, January 9 - 15, 2020

"Tempo" magazine, pages 20 and 21

have an article about Ambos Lados

"Tempo" magazine, page 23 continues

the article about Ambos Lados

The Ambos Lados exhibition was at the 

Taos Center for the Arts

People in the gallery

before attending the talks

"Tempo" magazine, January 16 - 22, 2020

also listed the Ambos Lados exhibition and talks

Print by Ramiro Ordonez

featured in the "Tempo" listing

of the magazine from January 16 - 22, 2020

ENCORE GALLERY PHOTOS

OF THE EXHIBITIONS

 TALKS

David Farmer gave the first talk at 2 PM -- "Printing the Future: Graphic Arts in Oaxaca."  David Farmer was previously a scholar at SMU in Dallas, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Manuel Guerra and Karl Whitaker gave the second talk at 3 PM -- "Prints Travel Easily and Start Dialog (Our Experience in Mexico)."  This talk is posted on THIS LINK.

Manuel Guerra doing a sound check -- 

he and Karl Whitaker gave the second talk

David Farmer gave the first talk,

"Printing the Future: Graphic Arts in Oaxaca"

Geraldo Martinez surfaced in David Farmer's slide show.  He was the archivist at the IAGO of Francisco Toledo's work, but also contributed a print to Ambos Lados.

Geraldo Martinez, second from the right in the red shirt --

with (l to r) Nancy Mayagoitia, founder of "Galeria Arte de Oaxaca,"

Hazam Jara Chávez the new director of IAGO in the blue shirt, 

and David Farmer to the right

The Taos group that went to Oaxaca in September 2019

In the photo, clockwise --

Joy Purcell, Jane Farmer, Andy Johnson, David Farmer, 

Carol Farmer, Nancy Mayagoitia, Frank Purcell

This picture below surfaced in David Farmer's slide show.  It is of Maestro Abraham Torres (left, pointing) with his small portable press, making prints in the center of Oaxaca with a small portable press -- "Taller de Grabado Bambulante."  Sam Gardner, an Ambos Lados artist, is in the center of the photo.

Maestro Abraham Torres printing in the plaza,

with Sam Gardner, of Ambos Lados

Francisco Toledo was a great artist and printmaker of Oaxaca,

who founded the IAGO,

and died last September, 2019

Sarah Parker came to our Taos talk.  We met her at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2019 in Silver City, where she made a huge steamroller print, and sold us a smaller print in her Coyol Designs booth.

Manuel Guerra with printmakers

Sarah Parker and Morgan

David Farmer talking to Manuel Guerra

after the talks

OAXACA PRINTS

A group from Taos  -- David and Carol Farmer, Joy and Frank Purcell, Jane Farmer and Andy Johnson -- bought prints in Oaxaca in September 2019, and those were also hung at the gallery.  More information at THIS LINK.

Oaxaca prints from the Taos collectors

Oaxaca prints from the Taos collectors

UNM TAOS

UNM Taos (University of New Mexico at Taos) co-sponsored the Ambos Lados exhibition at the Taos Center for the Arts.  It is located a bit outside the town, in the south, on a beautiful new campus.  The printmaking department is run by professor Gary Cook (YouTube link).

UNM Taos

(University of New Mexico at Taos)

Professor Gary Cook in his printmaking studio

The printmaking studio at UNM Taos

One of the galleries at UNM Taos

The beautiful view from UNM Taos

THANK YOU

A big thank you to Jane Farmer and Andy Johnson, for putting Manuel Guerra and Karl Whitaker up during their Taos visit.  Also to Bob Parker for hosting the after party.

Manuel Guerra with Jane Farmer and Andy Johnson

Jane Farmer is a curator, who is currently working on a publication of the work of Jiro Okura (see YouTube video).

She curated a huge international exhibition called "Cross Over Changing Places" (catalog on Amazon).

After party at Bob Parker's house 

(center, addressing the crowd)

Bob Parker co-organized with David Farmer,  a previous print exhibition in Taos called "Pressing Through Time: 150 Years of Printmaking in Taos" in 2015 at the Harwood Museum (another link about the exhibition).

At the party we met Sarah Hart, who runs the Hart Print Shop.  She told us about a previous Taos exhibition of young printmakers in 2014 called "Pressing On," and organized by Tim Jag.