2021 Juried Exhibition — Sumi-Fusion: International Mokuhanga Exhibition
As one of its central events, the International Mokuhanga Conference 2021 is very pleased to announce Sumi-Fusion: International Mokuhanga Exhibition, which will take place from November 30 to December 4, 2021, at Nara Prefectural Cultural Hall as well as being presented virtually.
While the conference itself is themed around the concept of sumi and its versatility in water-based woodblock printing (mokuhanga), and the presence of black and its relation to color, the juried exhibition will celebrate classic applications of mokuhanga, as well as contemporary fusions and new approaches to this historic art within the wider disciplinary world of print-media and contemporary art.
Jurors: Leonie Bradley (Editor Printmaking Today / Artist / UK), Hiroko Furuya (Professor, Tama Art University / Japan), Takuji Hamanaka (Artist / US+Japan), Kari Laitinen (Former Senior Lecturer / Aalto University / Finland), Yasu Shibata (Master Printer, PACE Editions / US+Japan), Annu Vertanen (Professor, Academy of Fine Arts / Finland)
Exhibition artwork will appear here November 11, 2021…
Awards for outstanding prints:
Nam, Yoonmi (USA) 2019 “The Four Seasons (4)” 29.8 x 41.9 cm (11.8 x 16.5 in)
Morita, Kaoru 森田薫 (Japan) 2021 “Light through the glass” 45.0 x 27.0 cm (17.7 x 10.6 in)
Kawamura, Sayaka (Japan) 2020 “People and stories” 50.0 x 50.0 cm (19.7 x 19.7 in)
Hudak, Patty (USA) 2021 “Force of Nature 2” 96.0 x 63.5 cm (37.8 x 25.0 in)
Kawelczyk, Tomasz (Poland) 2021 “The Golden Bough” 89.0 x 89.0 cm (35.0 x 35.0 in)
Exhibition Prints:
Abadal Lloret, Ariadna (Spain) 2021 “Pelicans” 60.0 x 84.0 cm (23.6 x 33.1 in)
Adame, Christine (USA) 2020 “Moon Cactus” 10.2 x 15.2 cm (4.0 x 6.0 in)
Amoss, John (USA) 2020 “Roan Mt, TN” 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10.0 x 8.0 in)
Bailey, Cameron (USA) 2021 “The Cave” 40.6 x 31.8 cm (16.0 x 12.5 in)
Baldwin, Katie (Taiwan) 2021 “Emergency Meeting Place (Fire)” 43.2 x 55.9 cm (17.0 x 22.0 in)
Beeman, Linda (USA) 2021 “Drips and Drops” 22.9 x 30.5 cm (9.0 x 12.0 in)
Bissett, Annie (USA) 2021 “Matrix” 48.3 x 43.2 cm (19.0 x 17.0 in)
Bortoloni, Laura (Italy) 2020 “Quantification of dust” 21.0 x 29.7 cm (8.3 x 11.7 in)
Campos, Israel (USA) 2021 “Premonition of things to come” 17.8 x 12.7 cm (7.0 x 5.0 in)
Cheong, Hoi I (Macau) 2020 “The Summer of Love (2×2)” 70.0 x 70.0 cm (27.6 x 27.6 in)
Collaborative Team L. Inking & Julianne Dao (USA) 2021 “l.ink: Float” 21.0 x 30.0 cm (8.3 x 11.8 in)
Cozzolino, Mara (Italy) 2021 “Heaven and Earth” 88.0 x 55.0 cm (34.6 x 21.7 in)
Crews, Leah (UK) 2021 “Ochoko” 42.0 x 29.5 cm (16.5 x 11.6 in)
De Haan, Judith Elisabeth (Norway) 2021 “The Bathers II” 72.0 x 90.0 cm (28.3 x 35.4 in)
Egger, Manfred (Austria) 2018 “Railroad to … II” 24.0 x 15.0 cm (9.4 x 5.9 in)
Evertson, William (USA) 2020 “Citizen Journalist” 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8.0 x 10.0 in)
Ewart, Jolanta (Australia) 2021 “Pathways [1 ]” 45.5 x 56.0 cm (17.9 x 22.0 in)
Fields, Zach (USA) 2020 “Mimesis” 67.9 x 24.8 cm (26.8 x 9.8 in)
Forrest, Elizabeth (Canada) 2021 “Setting” 39.5 x 29.0 cm (15.6 x 11.4 in)
Fujita, Eriko (Japan) 2021 “Sweet Dreams -3” 21.0 x 29.6 cm (8.3 x 11.7 in)
Fulton Suri, Jane (USA) 2021 “Lookout—Look Down” 27.9 x 38.1 cm (11.0 x 15.0 in)
Furneaux, Paul (UK) 2021 “Sea Blues” 47.0 x 43.0 cm (18.5 x 16.9 in)
Garcia, Matthew (USA) 2021 “Queering Space-Time” 30.5 x 40.6 cm (12.0 x 16.0 in)
Hamada, Michiko (Japan) 2021 “Thanks!” 22.5 x 30.0 cm (8.9 x 11.8 in)
Hey, Henrik (Netherlands) 2021 “Spring Takes Flight” 49.0 x 32.5 cm (19.3 x 12.8 in)
Howard, Daryl (USA) 2019 “Even the full moon listens to falling water” 33.0 x 25.4 cm (13.0 x 10.0 in)
Hudak, Patty (USA) 2021 “Force of Nature 2” 96.0 x 63.5 cm (37.8 x 25.0 in)
Isogami, Hisae (Japan) 2020 “切り込み (Notch)” 21.0 x 30.0 cm (8.3 x 11.8 in)
Januski, Ken (USA) 2020 “A Frenzy of Golden-crowned Kinglets” 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10.0 x 8.0 in)
Jarvis, George (Japan) 2021 “Showa” 30.0 x 21.5 cm (11.8 x 8.5 in)
Jesse, Mariko (Japan) 2021 “Summer Blooms” 49.0 x 37.0 cm (19.3 x 14.6 in)
Kaca, Dariusz (Poland) 2019 “Harbinger of Spring” 20.1 x 15.0 cm (7.9 x 5.9 in)
Kavanagh, Ann (Ireland) 2020 “Blue side” 121.9 x 78.7 cm (48.0 x 31.0 in)
Kawamura, Sayaka (Japan) 2020 “People and stories” 50.0 x 50.0 cm (19.7 x 19.7 in)
Kawelczyk, Tomasz (Poland) 2021 “The Golden Bough” 89.0 x 89.0 cm (35.0 x 35.0 in)
Kean, Roslyn (Australia) 2021 “Courtyard Winter Shadows” 76.0 x 56.0 cm (29.9 x 22.0 in)
Keckes, Irena (Guam) 2021 “Ocean” 90.0 x 60.0 cm (35.4 x 23.6 in)
Kiggell, Ralph (Thailand) 2018 “Skellig” 62.0 x 45.0 cm (24.4 x 17.7 in)
Kilpinen, Jere (Japan) 2021 “I’m Thinking About It…” 35.0 x 46.0 cm (13.8 x 18.1 in)
Kitayama Yamazaki, Aiu (Japan) 2021 “The Auditorium in Darkness” 60.0 x 90.0 cm (23.6 x 35.4 in)
Kobayashi, Keiko (Japan) 2021 “A House with Princess Mulberry” 85.0 x 62.0 cm (33.5 x 24.4 in)
Konno, Yuta (Japan) 2018 “BUKEYASHIKI” 29.7 x 37.5 cm (11.7 x 14.8 in)
Larkin, Justin (Hong Kong) 2020 “The moon” 12.0 x 18.0 cm (4.7 x 7.1 in)
Letourneur, Michele (USA) 2021 “Rorschach” 35.2 x 41.9 cm (13.9 x 16.5 in)
Leung, Wai Yan (Hong Kong) 2021 “Shin Sei Kai” 57.3 x 74.3 cm (22.6 x 29.3 in)
Macdonagh, Kate (Ireland) 2021 “Cadence 1” 60.0 x 90.0 cm (23.6 x 35.4 in)
Machowski, Jacek (Poland) 2021 “Evening walk after the rain” 90.0 x 60.0 cm (35.4 x 23.6 in)
Mack-Watkins, Jennifer (USA) 2021 “Ebony” 25.4 x 22.9 cm (10.0 x 9.0 in)
Madeley, Joanne (Canada) 2020 “Loon” 20.5 x 24.0 cm (8.1 x 9.4 in)
Malone, Neil (Australia) 2020 “passing through frane 1-2” 64.0 x 48.5 cm (25.2 x 19.1 in)
Masuda, Masahiro (Japan) 2021 “Nen” 50.0 x 65.0 cm (19.7 x 25.6 in)
Maurstig, Karen (Norway) 2021 “6 am, and the echo of a sea-gull” 63.0 x 88.0 cm and 24.8 x 34.6 inches
Mckenna, Terry (Japan) 2020 “Water From Heaven” 90.0 x 50.0 cm (35.4 x 19.7 in)
Metz, Deborah (Australia) 2020 “Sea Sponge Shapes With Eroded Rock Face Pattern” 43.0 x 57.5 cm (16.9 x 22.6 in)
Miliano, Ed (Ireland) 2020 “Autumn Blackbird” 26.0 x 34.0 cm (10.2 x 13.4 in)
Mita, Hiroyuki (Japan) 2020 “Green Image L-1” 46.0 x 58.0 cm (18.1 x 22.8 in)
Miyuki, Ninomiya (Japan) 2021 “Floating” 18.0 x 27.0 cm (7.1 x 10.6 in)
Mo, Shunwen (PRC) 2021 “Maze1” 45.7 x 45.7 cm (18.0 x 18.0 in)
Moilanen, Tuula (Finland) 2021 “From series 7 Famous Beauties on Kimono: Hera (by Rubens)” 40.0 x 50.0 cm (15.7 x 19.7 in)
Molina, Muntsa (UK) 2021 “When the night falls” 29.7 x 21.0 cm (11.7 x 8.3 in)
Morita, Kaoru 森田薫 (Japan) 2021 “Light through the glass” 45.0 x 27.0 cm (17.7 x 10.6 in)
Murata, Minako (Japan) 2020 “Talk with …” 33.0 x 40.0 cm (13.0 x 15.7 in)
Muto, Yuzuru (Japan) 2021 “natsu kusa shigeru” 29.7 x 21.1 cm (11.7 x 8.3 in)
Nam, Yoonmi (USA) 2019 “The Four Seasons (4)” 29.8 x 41.9 cm (11.8 x 16.5 in)
Neal, Florence (USA) 2020 “Lake” 27.9 x 38.1 cm (11.0 x 15.0 in)
O, Mia (Japan) 2019 “One Hole” 101.6 x 76.2 cm (40.0 x 30.0 in)
Padgett, Walt (USA) 2021 “Tokaido Series: Kakegawa–Makino Iron Works” 28.6 x 45.7 cm (11.3 x 18.0 in)
Pak, Nel (Netherlands) 2018 “Dog” 21.0 x 10.5 cm (8.3 x 4.1 in)
Price, Marilla (Australia) 2021 “Unmasked” 64.0 x 37.0 cm (25.2 x 14.6 in)
Qian, Tongji Philip (USA) 2019 “Conventional Formality” 48.3 x 63.5 cm (19.0 x 25.0 in)
Rantala, Taina (Finland) 2019 “Opening” 17.0 x 22.0 cm (6.7 x 8.7 in)
Reed, Michael (New Zealand) 2021 “At the End of the Rainbow” 41.0 x 29.0 cm (16.1 x 11.4 in)
Robertson, Chris (Canada) 2020 “Stop Asian Hate” 21.6 x 27.9 cm (8.5 x 11.0 in)
Rougeau, Pat (USA) 2021 “World Within World” 41.9 x 62.2 cm (16.5 x 24.5 in)
Rushforth, Susan (Australia) 2021 “Passing Clouds VII” 94.0 x 177.8 cm (37.0 x 70.0 in)
Räinä, Harriina (Finland) 2021 “Encounter with a horse hair brush” 68.0 x 60.0 cm (26.8 x 23.6 in)
Schlumbom, Sybille (New Zealand) 2020 “Yokai of bird killed by cat buried in flowerbed” 52.0 x 39.0 cm (20.5 x 15.4 in)
Schofield, Lucy (UK) 2019 “Prelude to Desire (after Utamaro) VIII” 32.0 x 44.0 cm (12.6 x 17.3 in)
Schulenberg, Melissa (USA) 2019 “fuzz” 74.9 x 53.3 cm (29.5 x 21.0 in)
Selby, Benjamin (USA) 2021 “Manifested” 36.8 x 26.7 cm (14.5 x 10.5 in)
Shimizu, Lynita (USA) 2021 “Sumi Kabuki Hen” 101.1 x 63.0 cm (39.8 x 24.8 in)
Simonova, Tatiana (USA) 2019 “Untitled (Text 4)” 30.5 x 30.5 cm (12.0 x 12.0 in)
Spitzack, Charles (USA) 2021 “Sinking Ship” 33.0 x 40.6 cm (13.0 x 16.0 in)
Stone, Faith (USA) 2020 “Ram and hanuman with Jambhavan” 40.6 x 30.5 cm (16.0 x 12.0 in)
Strand, Elisabet Alsos (Norway) 2021 “The Water That Rises and Sinks I” 39.0 x 35.0 cm (15.4 x 13.8 in)
Strasheim, Julie (Japan) 2020 “Disconnection and Reconnection” 36.0 x 27.0 cm (14.2 x 10.6 in)
Suzuki, Eriko 鈴木, 英里子 (Japan) 2020 “瞳 (Pupil)” 29.8 x 22.2 cm (11.7 x 8.7 in)
Swinimer, Svetlana (Canada) 2021 “Mobius Transformation ll” 20.0 x 30.0 cm (7.9 x 11.8 in)
Takada, Yohei (Japan) 2020 “watashi no sekai” 51.5 x 36.5 cm (20.3 x 14.4 in)
Taki, Chihiro (Japan) 2021 “Tsugu (Take over)” 208.3 x 152.4 cm (82.0 x 60.0 in)
Tsuchiya, Misa (Japan) 2021 “吐息Ⅱ (Sigh II)” 80.0 x 80.0 cm (31.5 x 31.5 in)
Tsutsumi, Asuka (Japan) 2019 “The Silent Drama -Yakushima #15-” 85.0 x 57.0 cm (33.5 x 22.4 in)
Watanabe, Kay (Australia) 2020 “In the woods, thinking (triptych)” 30.0 x 63.0 cm (11.8 x 24.8 in)
Wilhide Justin, Carol (UK) 2020 “Asemic Writing” 50.0 x 60.0 cm (19.7 x 23.6 in)
Winiecki, Stephen (USA) 2021 “Dome Island Rain (Lake George, NY)” 20.3 x 15.2 cm (8.0 x 6.0 in)
Wong, Ho Ching (UK) 2020 “Cave by the sea” 16.5 x 21.5 cm (6.5 x 8.5 in)
Wozniak, Aleksander (Poland) 2021 “Teresa 3” 53.0 x 53.0 cm (20.9 x 20.9 in)
Yamasaki, Nobuko (USA) 2020 “Underneath Shadows” 28.0 x 35.0 cm (11.0 x 13.8 in)
Yang, Jie (Japan) 2019 “Sour pain (酸っぱい痛み)” 152.4 x 228.6 cm (60.0 x 90.0 in)
Yates, Trish (Australia) 2021 “Soft Shadows” 38.0 x 55.0 cm (15.0 x 21.7 in)
Yuasa, Katsutoshi (Japan) 2021 “VR London Live Walk #1” 59.0 x 90.0 cm (23.2 x 35.4 in)
