Keiji Shinohara: Color Harmony
Thursday September 6, 2007 - Sunday December 9, 2007
Keiji Shinohara (Japanese, born 1955),Accelerando,2005, color woodcut. Collection of the Artist. © Keiji Shinohara (photo: D. Dudek).
Artist and master woodblock printer Keiji Shinohara combines traditional Japanese woodcut techniques with new materials. This exhibition explored the works Shinohara has created during the twelve years he has taught at Wesleyan University, from 1995 to 2007. Over the last decade Shinohara has gradually returned to his Japanese roots; yet he remains very much a man of his own time and place, an immigrant in a land of immigrants, a Japanese artist in the United States, an innovator within a great tradition.
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Shinohara spent ten years learning hangaor traditional Japanese woodcut techniques at the Uesugi Studio in Kyoto, Japan. In 1981 he was certified as a master printer, and in 1985 he came to the United States, where he has lived and worked ever since. |
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Keiji Shinohara, Silent, 1997, color woodcut. Collection of the Artist. © Keiji Shinohara (photo: D. Dudek). |
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With more than 50 works, the show explored Shinohara's intricate process, from initial preparatory drawings to proof states and finished prints. |
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Keiji Shinohara, Silver River, 1998, color woodcut. Collection of the Artist. © Keiji Shinohara (photo: D. Dudek). |
In conjunction with this exhibition, the Davison Art Center has published a 48-page, full-color catalog, Keiji Shinohara: Color Harmony. Supported in part by the Middletown Commission on the Arts, the catalog features an essay by curator Clare I. Rogan and a complete list of the artist's original woodcuts, monotypes, and monoprints from 1995 to July 2007.
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Keiji Shinohara, Penland, 1997, color woodcut. Collection of the Artist. © Keiji Shinohara (photo: D. Dudek). |