Fine art print collaborations

Print collaborations are commonly composed of a printer and an artist working in tamdem to produce a limited run of hand editioned prints as original art works. The artist brings there creative practice as a means of making marks on the stone or plate, and the printer brings technical skill in editioning and a guiding hand to facilitate the artists visions as they learn color seprations, registration, drafting techniques and all of the additional facets of the printmaking process.

The following prints are the result of Armstrongs collaboration with various artists.

Eric J. Garcia blends history, contemporary themes and a graphic style to create politically charged art that reaches beyond aesthetics. Using installations, murals, hand printed posters and his controversial political cartoons, he aims to challenge his viewers to question sources of power and the whitewashing of history. Born and raised in Burque’s South Valley, Garcia received his BFA with a minor in Chicano studies from the University of New Mexico, then went on to receive his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a core member of the printmaking collective, Instituto Gráfico de Chicago and a new member of the Justseeds Cooperative.

Szu-Han Ho’s work in performance, sound, and installation explores the relationship between bodies and sites of memory. She often works collaboratively, through collective action, structured improvisation, and group composition. Recent projects include “MIGRANT SONGS,” a choral performance art piece incorporating stories and songs of human and nonhuman migration; “BORDER TO BAGHDAD,” an exchange between artists from the US-Mexico border and Baghdad, Iraq; and “Shelter in Place,” a sculptural installation and performance inspired by her family’s history in Taiwan.

Szu-Han lives and works in Tiwa Territory (Albuquerque, NM) and is a founding member of the fronteristxs collective. She is currently an associate professor in Art & Ecology in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico.

Ranran Fan is an artist currently based in the US, working primarily in photography, installation and performance. Ranran earned a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BS in Biology in Hong Kong, and is pursuing a MFA at the University of New Mexico Studio Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally including Academy Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe Art Institute, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (China), and Incheon Marine Asia Photography and Video Festival. Ranran has been nominated as a SITE Scholar at SITE Santa Fe (2020). She received several awards including Student Award for Innovations in Imaging at Society for Photographic Education (U.S., 2019), and the Shiseido Photographer Prize at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (China, 2018).

Kerry Cottle is a visual artist and MFA candidate in Painting and Drawing at The University of New Mexico. Her work is an ongoing meditation on abstraction and color theory as a method to symbolically consider, restore, and gently subvert flawed value systems.

"The mingling of the material quality of oil paint and the visual language of line, grid, color, and shift, leads to moments of divergence from the order that otherwise grounds these works. This suggests that the inclination for control or order is oftentimes met with a desire for fluidity or elasticity. The use of color also goes to support this want for softening in an otherwise hard-edged or sharp environment: the rainbow implies a sense of unending circularity that spirals inward and outward, providing depth and breadth and the ability to span the fullness of the allotted space: in this case, within the square’s edges."

– Kerry Cottle

Marie Alarcón is an experimental video artist trained in documentary filmmaking. She has a B.A. in Non-Fiction Filmmaking and Post Colonial Studies from The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, and a Masters of Fine Arts with a Certificate in Time Based Media, from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Art and Design. Alarcón has worked as a community media educator and producer since 2006. They draws on personal and communal experiences of disenfranchisement to look at hidden histories through the lens of environment and is informed by place and its production and the speculative cultural memory of displacement and diaspora. Their expansive, process oriented practice often includes collaboration with dancers and musicians and bridges the poetic, the performative, and the journalistic through installation, new media technologies, and assemblage/collage. Alarcon has shown work and held residencies internationally, and is currently in Residence at Roswell AiR (2021-22), and a 2020 recipient of the Independence Media Foundation Filmmaking Grant for a new experimental fiction film to be produced Spring 2022.