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.

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)

Henry Morales from Albuquerque

has a work in the print exchange

and also came to the opening

A visitor plays favorites

Catalogs from all our prints shows

Members' Show

in the main gallery

Lincoln Draper 

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

Mary Sundstrom

rooster etching --

2017 is the year of the rooster

Co-owner Jessica Krichels 

giving the demo

Jessica Krichels

"Seed Stories III"

Monotype and Gravure

Co-owner Lincoln Draper (right, with apron)

photo from Facebook

Lincoln Draper

"Old Pine -- 3 Gun Spring"

Gravure

Co-owner Jessica Weybright 
(right, in pink shirt and apron)
photo from Facebook

Jessica Weybright

"Postcards from the Abyss III"

Multiple plate gravure

Interns

Mandalay Osborn and Matthew Barrett

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.

Christopher Z Lopez
at the opening at 
the new Matrix Gallery