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Thursday, August 10, 2017
3 Year Run -- Summary
The YayBig Print Exchange (view the prints at this link) was framed and exhibited pretty continuously for 3 years -- from 2014 to 2017 -- in 10 different locations. That's a pretty good run.
The YayBig Print Exchange grew out of the YayBig Gallery run by printmaker Joe Marshall in Tucson (2013 - 2015).
Tanya Rich and Krrrl then took works by the printmakers in this gallery on the road -- touring as "YayBig Southwest." They did pop-up print shows in El Paso, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Las Cruces, and San Antonio, collecting new prints from each city they visited. In the summer of 2014, Joe, Tanya and Karl had a homecoming show of the expanding print collection at the YayBig Gallery, for which they published their first print catalog, and announced the YayBig Print Exchange.
HOMECOMING
Later a selection of prints were framed for a print show in the Rusteberg Art Gallery at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Moreover, this print momentum lead to our first trip to see the printmakers of Oaxaca.
The YayBig Print Exchange framed exhibitions debuted at The Drawing Studio in downtown Tucson in 2014, and then immediately traveled to El Paso. In El Paso the prints hung next to the first Horned Toad Print Exchange (the print exchange which it was modeled after), 60 framed prints altogether, during the Chalk the Block festival downtown. Subsequently a catalog of both prints exchanges was published.
View catalog online at ISSUU
Ultimately the YayBig Print Exchange dovetailed into a bigger print project -- the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta -- which was shown at the El Paso Museum of Art in 2016.
YAYBIG PRINT EXCHANGE
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
2015
- TANA -- June, Sacramento
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley -- November, Brownsville, Texas (only 2 prints were shown there)
2016
- Juarez Contemporary Gallery -- January 29th (opening) - March 22nd, Juarez, Mexico
- Western Arizona College -- May 6th - August -- San Luis, Arizona (near Yuma)
- Tathagata Coffee -- October --Santa Fe, New Mexico
2017
- New Grounds/Remarque Print Workshop -- February (opening Feb 3rd) - March 25th -- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Ad in THE Magazine of Santa Fe, Nov 2016 issue, page 12
STEAMROLLER PRINTS
During our big print show in El Paso, at Chalk the Block 2014, some of our printmakers were making big steamroller prints with Luis Valderas and Kim Bishop of San Antonio.
Steamroller links:
- Marcus Robiason CNC prep
- Ruben Urrea Moreno CNC prep
- Steamroller even at Chalk the Block 2014
- Steamroller print show in a museum in downtown San Antonio
Steamroller even at Chalk the Block 2014
Steamroller prints exhibited 2015
at the old Museo Alameda in downtown San Antonio
YayBig and Horned Toad Print Exchanges
shown together again in Ciudad Juarez
at the old Museo Alameda in downtown San Antonio
shown together again in Ciudad Juarez
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Horned Toad Print Exchange II
tinyurl.com/HornedToad2
Our sister and mentor print exchange -- Horned Toad Prints of El Paso -- just finished it's second print exchange in July 2017.
The YayBig Print Exchange exhibited several times with the first Horned Toad Print Exchange:
- El Paso (2014)
- Sacramento (2015)
- Ciudad Juarez (2016)
- Yuma (2016)
Also the call for the second Horned Toad Print Exchange was posted on this blog in October, 2016, and also on the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta blog.
HORNED TOAD II
PRINTMAKERS
53 printmakers from 3 continents participated:
Worldwide participation
All prints 8 x 10 inches (with one noted exception)
(and the frames are 14.25 x 16.25):
Exhibitions
2017
2017
- Oaxaca -- Oaxaca, Espacio Centro -- opening October 27, 2017
2018
- El Paso -- La Galeria de la Mision de Senecu -- March 5 - April 10
- Monterrey, Mexico -- Taller La Catrina -- April 12 opening
- El Paso -- Cafe Tolteca -- April, May
- Yuma, Arizona -- San Luis Learning Center / Arizona Western College -- August - September
- Silver City, New Mexico -- 2018 Southwest Print Fiesta -- October
2019
- El Paso -- Galeria Cinco Puntos -- January
2020
- Albuquerque -- Gallery with a Cause, at the New Mexico Cancer Center -- June 2 - August 22
SIDE EVENTS
Saturday, February 4, 2017
New Grounds Remarque opening in Albuquerque
The New Grounds REMARQUE Print Workshop in Albuquerque, featured the YayBig Print Exchange during the first opening under the new management, adjacent to the Members' Show in the main gallery.
The show runs from Feb 3rd -- March 25th, 2017.
The Matrix Gallery up front, is also under new ownership, and had an opening on the same night, with many different artists. Christopher Z Lopez's paintings graced a whole wall in the front gallery.
The show runs from Feb 3rd -- March 25th, 2017.
They had a great turnout during the opening, on Friday, February 3rd, 2017.
Members' Show
in the main gallery
Crowd collecting in the main print shop area
From the New Grounds Twitter feed
Entrance to the YayBig Print Exchange exhibition
Curator Augustine Romero
(who will bring the Postre Prints exhibition in El Paso
to the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque
in April)
A visitor plays favorites
Members' Show
in the main gallery
labels prints in the print shop
Jessica Krichels gives a print demo
with collagraph and milk carton etching prints
Young printmaker
cranks the press
Co-owner Mary Sundstrom
in front of her
Chinese Zodiac etching series
rooster etching --
2017 is the year of the rooster
Co-owner Jessica Krichels
giving the demo
"Seed Stories III"
Monotype and Gravure
Co-owner Lincoln Draper (right, with apron)
"Old Pine -- 3 Gun Spring"
Gravure
"Postcards from the Abyss III"
Multiple plate gravure
Interns
Mandalay Osborn and Matthew Barrett
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