![]() ![]() ![]() Highlights include Yoonmi Nam’s Oishii, a masterfully minimal image of cut flowers arranged in an everyday drink carton Daniel Heyman’s hand-printed book, Sing with a Lovely Voice, which presents testimonies of former inmates at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq David Curcio’s MS.45, a nun with a gun, red lips and red nails Stella Ebner’s silhouetted The Hunters which achieves a deep space with expert layering Allison Bianco’s The Old Jamestown Bridge picturing the 90s dynamite explosion of the rickety Rhode Island landmark and Hiroki Morinoue’s Dragonfly Pond, a vibrant pseudo-landscape that exploits the grain of the woodblock to stunning success. The simplicity lies in the ease with which one can get create an image. We will also focus on a few of the printing techniques particular to mokuhanga, such as how to create a bokashi (color gradation). Some works adhere strictly to the traditional process and others combine techniques such as etching and hand-stitching. Mokuhanga is a traditional printing technique once used commercially in Japan to mass produce images such as Katsushika Hokusai’s famous The Great Wave off Kanagawa. The Japanese method of multicolor woodblock printing (mokuhanga), with its use of brushes and watercolors and hand pressure, is both simple and complex. The prints selected for this show present contemporary imagery and vernacular. Widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (16031868) and similar to woodcut in Western printmaking in some regards, the mokuhanga technique differs in that it uses water-based inksas opposed to western woodcut, which typically uses oil-based inks. Mokuhanga is achieved with use of water-based inks, hand-printing techniques and Japanese-style printing papers. The Japanese technique of woodblock printmaking is very different to the Western technique. (, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce a printmaking exhibition by a group of artists whose work expands the boundaries of mokuhanga, the traditional Japanese woodcut process. ![]()
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