Yaybig Southwest: April 2014

Monday, 7 April 2014

Arizona Print Group at Yay Big Gallery in Tucson

The Arizona Print Group had an exhibition (April 6th) back at the brick and mortar mothership -- YayBig Gallery in the "Pleasure World" artist building of Tucson -- the night following our Phoenix 11th Monk3y show:

Arizona Print Group

Print Exchange show

The theme was

"Letters of the Alphabet"

"U"

by Stu Briscoe

I hung YayBigSouthwest prints

in the hallway

Hamming it up in the

George Strasburger Studio and Gallery in the same buildling.

Federico was our guest from El Paso

Meanwhile Gonzalo Espinosa

had an opening at Rancho Linda Vista, in Oracle,

on Sunday, April 6th

Gonzalo included his 3 dimensional silkscreen prints,

at his Linda Vista show.

Saturday, 5 April 2014

11th Monk3y Print Show -- First Friday in Phoenix

YayBigSouthwest in Phoenix! We had a pop-up print show at 11th Monk3y (Facebook) on Grand Ave, for the First Friday Artwalk (April 4th, 2014).

Continued in other blog posts:

11th Monk3y print show -- 1) artists

11th Monk3y print show -- 2) artists

11th Monk3y print show -- 3) artists

11th Monk3y in Phoenix

Downtown Phoenix Murals

Augment El Paso

Print List (Google doc)

Listing of artists -- 1 - 101

(plus A- I)

Listing of artists -- 102 - 136

(plus EP1 - EP6)

Last year Ruben helped Gonzalo and I make a silkscreen print at 11th Monk3y:

We also had pop-up shows in:

Albuquerque (March 7th, 2014)

El Paso (October 11 - 13, 2013)

11th Monk3y print show -- 1) artists

Artists from the 11th Monk3y show on the black side wall, listed left to right, top to bottom (seePrint List):

72 – Marshall, Joe (Chickens)

79 – Flores, Rudy

26 – Stewart, Edwin

8 -- Contreras, Michael (In color)

85 – Wil Taylor (Ride)

84 – Delgado, Francisco

102 – Fuentes, Juan

59 – Guerra, Manuel

70 – Breeze, Thomas

113 -- Marshall, Joe

101 – Susan Kay Johnson

C) Brandon Sanderson

134 -- Hodgins, Eric

12 -- Diaz, Daniel

57 – Wil Taylor (Be)

17 – Colectivo Rezizte

87 – Sugita, Toru

106 -- Wells, Mykl

74 – Eli Levin

120 -- Morales, Henry

65 – Poe

77a 77b – Marshall, Joe (Set)

27 – Martin, Danny

22 – de Soto, Ernest

63 – Tanya Rich

32 – Moreno, Ruben (Girl)

6 -- Cardenas, Cristina

54 – Wil Taylor (Muerte)

10 -- Krrrl (Female figure)

64 – Yoffe, Howard

46 – Henry Morales

23 -- Osowski, Zack

133 -- Kaitlin Reese

11th Monk3y print show -- 2) artists

Artists from the 11th Monk3y show on the 4 plywood boads, listed left to right, top to bottom (see Print List):

29 -- Rogo

18 -- Zeque Penya

89 – Flores, Rudy

126 -- Marshall, Joe

114 -- Morales, Henry

21 – Quintanilla, Martin

30 – Matteson, Jacob

92– Flores, Rudy

71 – Henry Morales

118 -- White, Donovan

110 -- Quintanilla, Martin

52 – Monica Warhol

80 – Flores, Rudy

33 – Rogo

24 – Espinosa, Gonzalo

107 -- Biscoe, Stu

96– Flores, Rudy

19 – Krrrl (Female figure)

7 -- Cool-Flowers, Deborah

105 -- Sent Rock

41 – DO Art

58 – Martin, Danny

35 – Hill, Jennifer

51 – Marshall, Joe

68 – Martin, Danny (Tucson)

103 -- Quintanilla, Martin

130 -- Held, Regina

75 – Guerra, Manuel

131 -- Held, Regina

B) Maria Romero & Nabil Gonzalez

44 – Henry Morales

124 -- Allen, Adabel

109 -- Fragua, Jaque

13 – Quintanilla, Martin

48 – Martin, Danny

127 -- Marshall, Joe

49 – Marshall, Joe

15 – Marshall, Joe (female face)

97– Flores, Rudy

136 -- Pamela Wesolek (Di Mauro)

132 -- Martin, Danny

24 – Espinosa, Gonzalo

121 -- Morales, Henry

100 – Wells, Mykl

98 – Wells, Mykl

99 – Wells, Mykl

38 – Marshall, Joe

83 – Flores, Rudy

25 – Stewart, Edwin

67 – Flores, Rudy

11th Monk3y print show -- 3) artists

Artists from the 11th Monk3y show on the far back wall, and the wall in the middle of the room, listed left to right, top to bottom (see Print List):

1 – Sugita, Toru

78 – Rush, Andrew

73 – Wells, Mykl

93 – Flores, Rudy

94 – Flores, Rudy

86 – Marshall, Joe

91 – Sugita, Toru

135 -- Pamela Wesolek (Di Mauro)

108 -- Greybeard

112 -- Yorch

14 -- "Biking Buddies" by BICAS

111 -- Espinosa, Gonzalo

31 – Rogo

47 – Martin, Danny

125 -- Marshall, Joe

30 – Matteson, Jacob

11 -- Espinosa, Gonzalo

4 – Muheddine, Victor

I) Jorge Eliecer Rodriguez Osorio

80 – Flores, Rudy

F) Luis M Ruiz

D) Raul Monarrez

Augment El Paso

Each of these digital poster prints

can be "augmented"

by viewing through a smart phone

using the "Augment El Paso" app

Tanya watches moving octopus tentacles,

in the animated "augmented" version

of the portrait with octopus tentacles poster

on an Android tablet

The "augmented" posters

came from the Augment El Paso exhibition

the previous weekend (March 29th, 2014)

Prints, list of artists,

and Tucson Sculpture Festival catalogs

(2014 and 2013)

on the small tables below

Also two print racks were on the floor, holding the remaining prints of the collection, for visitors to flip through

11th Monk3y in Phoenix

Thank you 11th Monk3y, for letting us put on a pop-up print gallery in Phoenix, on First Friday (April 4th, 2014).

1022 W Grand Ave, Phoenix

11th Monk3y sells the artwork made in the back shop,

in the adjoining store front on Grand Ave --

and invites the community to participate in all processes

Stage and lounge area out back

Business cards and buttons

Billboard above 11th Monk3y,

morphs periodically from one odd art image to another

Artspace across from 11th Monk3y

Calaca

had an opening the same night

just down Grand Ave

Full load

Car full of prints,

traveling between Tucson and Phoenix

Augment El Paso

I went to the Augment El Paso show on March 29th, 2014, and bought some "augmented reality" digital prints, which I showed next week at our 11th Monk3y print show in Phoenix (April 4th):