MARKING THE MARGIN

Presented in collaboration with Tamarind Institute and exhibited at Duende Gallery in La Sala de Galisteo, one of New Mexico’s oldest communal cultural spaces, Marking the Margin brings together artists whose collaborations with Tamarind span more than six decades, examining the social, racial, and political conditions shaping their time. 

Working across generations and mediums, these artists approach printmaking not simply as a tool to create images as multiples, but as a means to question and rework established systems of power. Through lithography’s processes of layering, reversal, and transfer, the works in this exhibition explore themes of visibility, identity, and control. 

Artists including Harmony Hammond and Jeffrey Gibson investigate gender equity and queer experience, challenging dominant modes of representation. Works by Nick Cave, Ruth Asawa, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fritz Scholder, Rose B. Simpson, Marie Watt, Raven Chacon, Miguel Gandert, and Kerry James Marshall expand conversations around cultural history and contemporary identity. Shifting focus beyond human-centered perspectives, works by Sue Coe, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Kiki Smith, Michelle Stuart, Emmi Whitehorse, Duane Slick, and Rosana Paulino highlight the interconnected relationships between humanity and the natural world. 

Together, these works position collaborative printmaking as a living, evolving medium, one that can reveal the hidden structures shaping society while opening space for alternative ways of seeing and being. Marking the Margin demonstrates how print can function simultaneously as a mirror and platform for social transformation, inviting viewers to reconsider the systems that govern our world and the possibilities for change within them.