CONTEMPORARY WOODCUT ARTISTS & CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ARTISTS
1. Miwako Nishizawa Miwako Nishizawa was born in Kyoto, Japan and now lives in Berkeley, California. She creates artwork often adapting traditional Japanese Woodblock technique. She was received a commission from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA to create a Japanese woodblock series, Twelve Vies of Virginia in conjunction with an exhibition, Hasui: Water & Shadow. The exhibition celebrated the Museum's impressive collection of Kawase Hasui donated by René and Carolyn Balcer. The exhibition was on view at the Museum from November 16, 2014 until March 29, 2015. The edition of the Twelve Views of Virgina was available to purchase at the VMFA Musuem shop during the exhibition. Monticello and Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond of the Twelve Views of Virginia series are on view at the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center (2180 Milvia Street, Berkeley, CA) until the end of May, 2015 as a part of the Civic Center Art Exhibition. The Exhibition is the City of Berkeley's opportunity to celebrate the richness of artistic production within its community. She served as the juror for the Student Print Exhibition, "Ink and Clay" of California State University, Chico. She also had an artist talk and the Japanese Woodblock Printing demonstration during her visit for jurying the exhibition. |
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The link below will take you to an interview with Miwako Nishzawa.
http://www.artbabble.org/video/vmfa/artist-miwako-nishizawa-vmfa
http://www.artbabble.org/video/vmfa/artist-miwako-nishizawa-vmfa
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Ema Shin "My works search for connecting threads between our inner emotions and the peaceful nurturing aspects of the natural environment in which we live. I combine invisible emotional and physical experiences with visually recognizable shapes of plant life in a mixed media approach that uses organic materials and natural processes. Using traditional Japanese water base woodblock printing, handmade Asian papers, raw fabric such as hemp and cotton combined with stitching and embroidery it is my aim to create contemporary compositions that display sensitivity for tactile materials, historical techniques, and human physical awareness." |
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Click the link provided to explore the artwork of Ema Shin.
Notice that not only does Ema Shin work with prints, but also adds mixed media to them.
http://emashin.org/home.html
Notice that not only does Ema Shin work with prints, but also adds mixed media to them.
http://emashin.org/home.html
Below are some selected works of woodblock print and mixed media from Ema Shin.
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Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art: 'We can make a future: Japanese art after 1989', Exhibition.
Find different ways Japanese artists are exploring art today.
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art: 'We can make a future: Japanese art after 1989', Exhibition.
Find different ways Japanese artists are exploring art today.
How to use this? Teachers could turn this into a research project where students could pick an artist - search artworks, biography information, materials, techniques, styles, viewpoints etc.
LA's - English, History
GC's - Intercultural Understanding, ICT and Literacy
CCP's - Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, Sustainability (Community)
LA's - English, History
GC's - Intercultural Understanding, ICT and Literacy
CCP's - Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, Sustainability (Community)