TAKUJI HAMANAKA
In Takuji Hamanaka’s mosaic-inspired works on paper, multiple sections of monochrome color interlock within dimensional, polychrome compositions. Adapting the ‘Bokashi’ technique of woodblock printing to a contemporary practice, Hamanaka prints multiple papers in color gradients and arranges them onto paper in organic designs that call to mind lattices, prisms, and slopes. Color and its absence draw attention to the paper’s opacity, as well as more theoretical ideas of windows and grids, and the tension between nature and pure abstraction. Hamanaka was born in Hokkaido, Japan and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, University, and Sumitomo Corporation, among others.
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FEATURED ARTWORKS
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED OFF-SITE EXHIBITIONS
Solo presentation
Geary Contemporary
Millerton, NY
August 3 - September 29
Takuji Hamanaka in
Focus on the Flatfiles: Between Worlds
Kentler International Drawing Space
June 17 - July 31, 2022
ACQUISITIONS
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired
the Takuji Hamanaka work on paper, Skeleton, 2021
PUBLICATIONS
Takuji Hamanaka Lineage
Exhibition catalogue
Foreword by Kristen Lorello
2022
SELECTED PRESS
Takuji Hamanaka’s Spellbinding Prints
John Yau
Hyperallergic
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Takuji Hamanaka
Johanna Fateman
The New Yorker
February 2022
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