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Where the East meets the West: American and Asian influences in the art of handmade paper and print makingThe work of Princeton artists Margaret Kennard Johnson Read a review from Packet Online, and Japanese artists Katsunori Hamanishi and Yoshikatsu Tamekane Read a review from Packet Online will be featuredThe exhibit is curated by The Williams Gallery of Princeton in conjunction with Hills Gallery. |
Onward © 2002 Margaret Kennard Johnson
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When: June 16 – July 3, 2004
Where: Hills Gallery Artist Talk: Saturday, June 19, 3:00 – 5:00 PM, artist Margaret Kennard Johnson will be present to discuss the processes used in creating her handmade paper and intaglio relief prints
Hours:
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Division-Work #97 © 2000 Katsunori Hamanishi |
About the Exhibit:
Ms. Johnson
will be showing new work focusing on the use of hand made paper in creating
images. A selection of her intaglio prints will also be on display.
Katsunori Hamanishi, considered to be a world master in the technique of mezzotint, will who new and earlier prints.
Yoshikatsu Tamekane will exhibit new work created during his stay as resident artist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Each of the artists has their own unique style and medium, Yet, each respects
and incorporates the Japanese aesthetic of supreme craftsmanship and attention
to detail. Simultaneously they bring contemporary techniques and culture into
their work with an underlying quality of ‘Zen’
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About the Artists:
Like the surrealistic paintings of Dali and Magritte, Katsunori Hamanishi's
mezzotints juxtapose nature and abstraction. In "Division - Work No. 94,"
for example, bold abstract shapes marked by thin curved lines bump up against
fields of rice and grain. Hamanishi's prints are noted for their delicate
details and velvety blacks – a result of his mastery of the mezzotint process.
Each image shows a great range of tones and depth of color which is only
obtained from the painstaking burnishing of the plate.
Hamanishi’s work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New
York; Art Institute, Chicago; Library of Congress, DC; Taipei; National Museum,
Osaka and more. Beginning in September 2004 he will have a two-man show with
long venerated mezzotint artist Yozo Hamaguchi at the Worcester Art Museum in
Margaret Kennard Johnson was first introduced to the art of hand-made
paper while in residence in Japan. Intrigued with the process, she has
subsequently become a master of creating unique images using this medium. The
Dieu Donne Papermill,on Broome Street in New York is where Ms. Johnson creates
her work. She says:
“My special focus in making these works has been to explore expressive
possibilities of handmade paper – to collaborate with it’s unique capabilities
for shrinking, expanding, twisting, creasing, wrinkling incising, layering, and
to foster its interaction with other materials such as imbedded vellum and rusty
wire”
On May 15 of this year Ms. Johnson was recognized for the creation of a
multi-layered ‘mesh fabric’ sculpture now installed in the Quiet Room of the new
Princeton Public Library.
Born in 1959, Yoshikatsu Tamekane studied at Sokei Academy of Fine Arts
in Tokyo. From 1991 to 1994 he lived in Paris while studying art at the Musee
d’Orsay, the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou.He is a member of the Japan Print
Association and has shown seven consecutive years in the prestigious CWAJ Print
Show. He is known for his combination of technical prowess with a mystical
aesthetic and vision. He frequently adds rich textural qualities, such as silver
and gold leaf, to his woodblock images.
Since September 2003, Mr. Tamekane has been artist-in-residence at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Design. He recently, May 15 of this year,
gave a demonstration of his woodblock techniques at the Montgomery Center for
the Arts. A selection of his newest woodblock/collograph prints will be on view
at Hills Gallery.
"I savor the past and also look forward to the next century as a time of hope
and advancement for the human spirit".
(Y. Tamekane)
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