El Paso Gallery

This is how the gallery was hung for Chalk the Block in El Paso:

YayBig printmakers

Horned Toad printmakers

Francella Salgado's paintings,

she is the owner of the Dreadful Things store

Jason Lucero's prints

Jake Valentine's painting

Chucotopia -- Preparing the show in El Paso

El Pueblo Viejo vs El Chuco -- Fine Art Print Exhibition

We are showing the two print exchanges in El Paso at their 7th Annual Chalk the Block arts festival downtown, Oct 10 -12:

Friday      October 10th -- 6 - 10 PM

Saturday  October 11th -- 10AM - 10 PM

Sunday     October 12th -- 11 AM - 3 PM

Our pop-up gallery is at 114 B  -- E Mills Ave -- bordering San Jacinto Plaza (which is under construction)

All the print exchange artworks are only 8 x 10 inches (before framing).

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114 B -- E Mills Ave

Heart of Downtown

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All of the pop-up galleries

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This is the facade of our pop-up gallery,

on Monday, Oct 6th,

before we moved in

Clean up time...

Our prints will hang on the wall with the broom --

we are sharing this space with other artists 

Hanging the prints

on Thursday, Oct 9th

Almost ready for the opening

on Friday, October 10th

Special thanks to Hector Saenz, who is in charge of our space.

Our pop-up gallery was mentioned in What's Up magazine:

One such pop-up gallery, “El Pueblo Viejo vs. El Chuco — Fine Art Print Exhibition,” is a veritable showdown of artists from across the Southwest. The exhibit, born from a print exchange organized in Tucson, Arizona, and a print exchange organized in El Paso, will display 8-by-10-inch prints.

For the YayBig Print Exchange in Tucson, artists were asked to give 15 pieces of their work in exchange for 13 prints from other artists. Two prints were kept for the Chalk the Block exhibit. For the Horned Toad Press Print Exchange in El Paso, artists were asked to give eight pieces of their work in exchange for seven prints from other artists. In each exchange, one print was kept for display at Chalk the Block.

“We are very proud of the quality of both collections, and should exhibit up to 60 prints total — 32 from YayBig and 28 from Horned Toad,” said Tucson artist and Albuquerque native Karl Whitaker, who will be bring the Arizonian art to the Chalk the Block. “I think it’s very exciting to see these print initiatives coming from the Southwest, and hope that this sparks more printmaking from our region, so that we can share our visions with the rest of the world.”

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BIG PRINTS

Two of the Tucson artists in our YayBig Print Exchange --  Ruben Urrea Moreno and Marcus Robiason -- are going to sneak in and do some steam roller prints with the main San Antonio and El Paso printmaking crews.  Art to the Third Power (ART3) , from San Antonio, are the master steam roller printers.  Their project for Chalk the Block is called "Texas Sized Breach."

STEAM ROLLER PRINTS

Main cast of Steam Roller Printers

Marcus Robiason of Tucson

laser cut his image

for steam roller printing

(We also sent one of Marcus' other drawings to Reviver Printing in Las Cruces to make an edition of  25, larger silk screen prints)

Ruben Urrea Moreno of Tucson

used a CNC router

to make his large woodblock relief

for steam roller printing

Tucson Opening -- Oct 4th

El Pueblo Viejo vs El Chuco -- Fine Art Print Exhibition

We had a pleasant opening, showing the two print exchanges, during the First Saturday Artwalk (Oct 4th) at The Drawing Studio in downtown Tucson:

Rudy Flores and family,

in front of his print

Abbey Russell

in front of her print

Mark Christian

in front of his print

Marcus Robiason

did live carving and printmaking

Music by Oddkin

The Drawing Studio

Front view, downtown Tucson

Looking out

Opening welcome

("Orale" print by Zeque Penya)

Tucson -- The Drawing Studio Exhibition

El Pueblo Viejo vs El Chuco -- Fine Art Print Exhibition

YayBig (Pueblo Viejo/Tucson) and Horned Toad  (Chuco/El Paso) Print Exchanges, showing together now, at The Drawing Studio in Tucson (33 S 6th Ave, downtown) -- Sept 27th - Oct 4th.

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Reception:  First Saturday -- October 4th -- 6 - 8 PM

Music by Oddkin

Live Printing by Marcus Robiason

This is a show of two cities -- the YayBig (Tucson) and/vs the Horned Toad Prints (El Paso) print exchanges.  The YayBig solicited prints from Southwestern artists; and was based on the Horned Toad print exchange, which was more international, soliciting works from El Paso, overseas, and places in between.  Some artists are featured in both print exchanges.

This exhibition runs in two cities -- Tucson, at The Drawing Studio, Sept 27 - Oct 4th; and El Paso, during the Chalk the Block festival, Oct 10 - 12th.

Between the two collections, there are several master printmakers, including:  Andrew Rush, who founded The Drawing Studio in Tucson, Eli Levin who founded the Santa Fe Etchers Club, Danny Martin of Tucson, Jules Floss and Brandon Sanderson from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Malaquias Montoya at TANA (UC Davis), and Manuel Guerra of the University of Texas at El Paso.  We thank all the great talents that gave us their work and visions to make two strong print exchanges.

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Print exchanges are about sharing amongst artists.  Each artist contributed an edition of 15 prints to the YayBig Print Exchange, and receives 13 different prints back.  Two prints remained with the organizers for exhibition purposes.  The Horned Toad Prints Print Exchange solicited an edition of 8 prints, and gave each participant back 7 different prints.  

Credits

YayBig Print Exchange organizer -- Joe Marshall

Horned Toad Prints Print Exchange organizer -- Manuel Guerra

Exhibition Curator -- Tanya Rich

Art Agitator -- Krrrl



Update:  Ernest de Soto looked at the prints and wrote the following for our upcoming catalog:

"Here is a good, wide selection of styles, personalities, and techniques. This work is very personal, well thought out; and the artists have developed individual styles very effectively. I'm very happy to have seen them, and I hope that this will encourage the artists to continue, and soon have one-person shows."

--Ernest de Soto
Printmaker and master lithographer (for Rufino Tamayo, Jose Luis Cuevas, Luis Jimenez, etc...)

Ernest de Soto

master lithographer

Chano says:

"See the Print Exchange Exhibition"