Takuji Hamanaka
Takuji Hamanaka is an artist and printmaker living in Brooklyn, New York. He was an apprentice in traditional woodcut printmaking in Tokyo, Japan. His recent works on paper adapt the traditional ‘Bokashi’ technique of woodblock printing to a contemporary practice. He prints multiple papers in single-color gradients and arranges them onto paper in organic compositions that call to mind prisms, lattices, and slopes. Hamanaka says of his practice, "I have been working with biomorphic images in both painting and print over the course of the last several years. To me biomorphic images seem to manifest the fundamental essence of living things, evoking the constant movement of organisms within themselves."
His work has been exhibited at the International Print Center, New York, Whitman College, Washington, National Academy of Fine Arts, India, and the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland, among others. Hamanaka received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, NY, KALA Art Institute Fellowship, CA and has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, NH, Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ME and Open studios, Museum of Arts and Design, NY.
