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Initially a student of traditional Japanese doll-making, Iwami Reika turned to sōsaku hanga after discovering the prints of Onchi Koshiro and his student Sekino Jun’ichirō, with whom she studied. Her abstract compositions explore limited tonal ranges, usually black, gray, and white, with accents of gold dust. She also frequently employs carved and splintered driftwood, which she gathers from around her beachside home in Kanagawa, as woodblocks, imparting to her works a rustic yet refined quality, further emphasized by her use of traditional materials, including sumi-e inks, handmade papers, and mica dust. In 1957, she was a founding member of the Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, a professional association of female printmakers.
BB, 2014
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abstract; conceptual art; landscapes Link to share this object record:
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