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WORK

Photos By Jonathan Tercero

FRAMED ART WORK EXAMPLES

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MONOTYPE

In my monotypes, I want to create an atmosphere that invites deeper inquiry.  I use a painterly printmaking process that starts by my painting on a plexiglass plate with French oil-based etching inks.  Then I run it through the press just once onto a Japanese paper substrate.  The plate is then cleared.  So each piece is unique.  A suspended moment in time is captured.

PAINTINGS

I first become serious about painting in college at UC Berkeley, California. While in school, I worked in the Metallurgy Department where I was introduced to the electron microscope. I viewed an entire new universe inside a hairline fragment of metal. To convey this wonder of seeing space at the microscopic level I used sand and gesso substrates as the ground for my paintings.


Years later, while living in Tokyo, I learned the Nihonga painting technique (pigment and glue on mulberry paper mounted on board). I created textured effects by using colored patterns of pochoir on top of the flat Nihonga layer. In effect, I started mixing western techniques with traditional eastern methods and in the process became aware of my own Japanese American cultural duality. This inner dynamic tension between Eastern and Western aesthetics continues, but I always strive for a sense of balance and harmony in my work.

DIGITAL

In my computer-enhanced work, I want to evoke a feeling of timeless space from which images can shimmer in the viewer's imagination. I create these images from composites of printed material such as photographs, magazines or scanned objects imported into the computer. The composites are then aggregated and edited into an image with the aid of Adobe software. The image is then printed on a substrate, e.g., archival paper, glass, plexiglass, etc. Sometimes I use collagraph, chine-collé, ink, or pastel to finish the piece.

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