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:

1 – Sugita, 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:

93 – Flores, Rudy

65 – Poe

34 – Marshall, Joe

42 – Henry Morales

33 – Rogo

8 -- Contreras, Michael (In color)

15 – Marshall, Joe

43 – Yoffe, Howard
39 – Penya, Zeque

98 – Wells, Mykl

100 – Wells, Mykl

99 – Wells, Mykl

27 – Martin, Danny

48 – Martin, Danny

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)

Demo by Pamela Wesolek

Other openings -- Albuquerque

Trip to Albuquerque and Santa Fe

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:

76 – Wells, Mykl

101 – Susan Kay Johnson

82– Flores, Rudy

70 – Breeze, Thomas

92– Flores, Rudy

90 – Martin, Danny

24 – Espinosa, Gonzalo

13 – Quintanilla, Martin

85 – Wil Taylor (Ride)

40 – Henry Morales

58 – Martin, Danny

4 – Muheddine, Victor

59 – Guerra, Manuel

77a  77b – Marshall, Joe (Set)

88– Flores, Rudy

24 – Espinosa, Gonzalo

57 – Wil Taylor (Be)

75 – Guerra, Manuel

68 – Martin, Danny (Tucson)

50 – Quintanilla, Martin

30 – Matteson, Jacob

84 – Delgado, Francisco

63 – Tanya Rich

97– Flores, Rudy

91 – Sugita, Toru

96– Flores, Rudy

52 – Monica Warhol

22 – de Soto, Ernest

74 – Eli Levin

86 – Marshall, Joe

80 – Flores, Rudy

79 – Flores, Rudy

10 -- Krrrl (Female figure)

26 – Stewart, Edwin

60 – Guerra, Manuel

73 – Wells, Mykl

72 – Marshall, Joe (Chickens)

71 – Henry Morales

19 – Krrrl (Female figure)

18 – Penya, Zeque

55 – Tanya Rich (Bike face)

87 – Sugita, Toru

32 – Moreno, Ruben (Girl)

21 – Quintanilla, Martin

66 – Flores, Rudy

56 – Henry Morales

54 – Wil Taylor (Muerte)

64 – Yoffe, Howard (Plus 2 laser cuts below)

78 – Rush, Andrew

53 – Tanya Rich

89 – Flores, Rudy (Plus bee laser cut below)

67 – Flores, Rudy

17 – Colectivo Rezizte

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

7 -- Cool-Flowers, Deborah

35 – Hill, Jennifer

37 – Marshall, Joe

44 – Henry Morales

45 – Marshall, Joe

47 – Martin, Danny

49 – Marshall, Joe

16 – Quintanilla, Martin

46 – Henry Morales

29 – Rogo (Plus small prints above)

9 -- Krrrl

28 – Matteson, Jacob

3 – Quintanilla, Martin

2 – Martin, Danny

12 -- Diaz, Daniel

6 -- Cardenas, Cristina

23 -- Osowski, Zack

31 – Rogo

20 – Quintanilla, Martin
62 – Tanya Rich

41 – DO Art

69– Flores, Rudy

51 – Marshall, Joe

25 – Stewart, Edwin

80 – Flores, Rudy

36 -- Kiely, Molly

83 – Flores, Rudy

38 – Marshall, Joe

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