Sunday 9 March 2014

YayBigSouthwest at New Grounds in Albuquerque

Tanya and I brought our print collection from YAYBIG Gallery, in Tucson, to New Grounds Print Workshop and Gallery for the First Friday Artscrawl in Albuquerque (March 7th):



Tanya with a handful of prints, setting up






THE PRINTS

Note:  The numbers (and letters) refer to those on the main list:

1Sugita, Toru
(Large print in the center)

The small prints above are a selection from a print exchange -- Dialogos e Interpretationes: The Americas (2013) -- counter-clockwise from the left:

I) Jorge Eliecer Rodriguez Osorio
“Guapas”
Drypoint on Copper
Manizles, Colombia

H) Natalia Correa Mendez
“Archivos Domesticos”
Aguafuerte, aquatinta, cera blanda
Cali, Colombia

A) Fernando Fernandez
“Yackelob”
Woodcut
El Paso

E) Penny McElroy
“Vuelven Las Cosas a su Sitio”
Woodcut and Photocopy
Relands, California

D) Raul Monarrez
“Devil by Accident”
Komatex Relief
El Paso

F) Luis M Ruiz
“Dead End”
Linoleum Cut
El Paso

G) Jules Floss
“Empyrean”
Plastic Engraving
Pembroke, North Carolina

C) Brandon Sanderson
“Binary/Symbiotic”
Relief, Sewing, Embossing, Digital Transfer
Pembroke, North Carolina

B) Maria Romero & Nabil Gonzalez
Silkscreen and Gold Leaf
El Paso


Note:  The numbers (and letters) refer to those on the main list:


93Flores, Rudy
65Poe
42 – Henry Morales
33 Rogo


8 -- Contreras, Michael (In color)


43 – Yoffe, Howard
39Penya, Zeque


98Wells, Mykl
100Wells, Mykl
99Wells, Mykl
11 -- Espinosa, Gonzalo


94 – Flores, Rudy
95 – Flores, Rudy
90 – Flores, Rudy

Continued in other blog posts:

New Grounds print show -- Front Room
(prints and artist names)

New Grounds print show -- Back Room
(prints and artist names)
Listing of Artists in the New Grounds Print Workshop show

New Grounds print show -- Front Room

The prints on the back wall in the front room, from left to right, top to bottom:

Note: The numbers (and letters) refer to those on the main list:

76Wells, Mykl


92– Flores, Rudy
24 – Espinosa, Gonzalo


85 Wil Taylor (Ride)
40 – Henry Morales


77a  77bMarshall, Joe (Set)
88– Flores, Rudy
24 – Espinosa, Gonzalo


57Wil Taylor (Be)
68Martin, Danny (Tucson)


63Tanya Rich
97– Flores, Rudy
91Sugita, Toru
96– Flores, Rudy
74Eli Levin


80 – Flores, Rudy
79 – Flores, Rudy
10 -- Krrrl (Female figure)
26 – Stewart, Edwin
60 – Guerra, Manuel


73Wells, Mykl
72 – Marshall, Joe (Chickens)
71 – Henry Morales
19Krrrl (Female figure)
18Penya, Zeque


55 – Tanya Rich (Bike face)
87Sugita, Toru
32Moreno, Ruben (Girl)


66 – Flores, Rudy
56 – Henry Morales
54Wil Taylor (Muerte)
64Yoffe, Howard (Plus 2 laser cuts below)
78Rush, Andrew


53Tanya Rich
89 – Flores, Rudy (Plus bee laser cut below)
67 – Flores, Rudy

New Grounds print show -- Back Room

New Grounds print show -- Back Room

From left to right, top to bottom:

Note: The numbers (and letters) refer to those on the main list:


14 -- "Biking Buddies" by BICAS --
Left:  relief laser cut in Mexican shoe rubber, printed on Amate paper
Right: silk screen




37 – Marshall, Joe
44 – Henry Morales


47Martin, Danny




46 – Henry Morales
29Rogo (Plus small prints above)


9 -- Krrrl






23 -- Osowski, Zack
31Rogo


41 – DO Art


25 – Stewart, Edwin

80 – Flores, Rudy
83 – Flores, Rudy


61 – Henry Morales

We picked up some new prints in Albuquerque from Regina Held, Kaitlin Reese, Pamela Wesolek, Henry Morales and ACE Barbershop.

Demo by Pamela Wesolek

The big opening at New Grounds Print Workshop and Gallery was for Pamela Wesolek's prints in the main gallery.



She also demonstrated a non-toxic etching technique during the opening:



Regina Held, director of New Grounds,
introduces Pamela Wesolek


Pamela Wesolek giving a print demo




Final print and plate

Other openings -- Albuquerque

The opening for the 5th Annual People's Show, at Factory 5 in Albuquerque, went on at the same time as our print show at New Grounds (Friday, March 7th):



Big painting by Holly Wood






When we came back to Tucson on Saturday (March 8th), Yaybig Gallery was having an opening showing Danny Martin's drawings:



Danny Martin sports a cowboy hat


Yaybig Gallery on Toole Street, 
in Tucson




Trip to Albuquerque and Santa Fe

Tanya and I enjoyed the artwork in Albuquerque and Santa Fe a couple of days before the First Friday exhibition of our print show at New Grounds Print Workshop and Gallery:


Collaborative mural in Albuquerque,
on Central, next to the Flying Star in Nob Hill,
by Ernest Doty, Ryan Montoya, & Jaque Fragua



Mural in Albuquerque on Central,
across from UNM,
by Werc (from El Paso) and Gera


Mural in Albuquerque,
on Coal street

Mural in Albuquerque,
on Coal street


Mural in Albuquerque,
on Coal street


Mural in Tesuque, New Mexico,
by El Mac

Mural in Tesuque, New Mexico,


We saw 2 Tucson artists at Shidoni, the foundry near Santa Fe.  These artists also participated in the past two Tucson Sculpture Festivals -- 2014 and 2013 -- which Tanya and I put on:

Judy Stewart's sculpture in Shidoni


Steven Derks' sculpture in Shidoni


Tanya looking over the sculpture
in downtown Albuquerque, 
which I helped Dennis make