Yuzo Nakano, Kazuko Watanabe, Jurors
California Printmakers…Tradition and Innovation highlights the best in recent California printmaking and features a wide range of printmaking techniques, from traditional processes to more experimental methods.
Preview for Members & Exhibiting Artists: Thursday, July 20, 6 – 7 pm
Public Reception: Saturday, July 22, 4 – 6 pm, with live music from the Happy Jazz Duo: Karl Hartmann & Dave Casini
Family Art Day: Sunday, August 20, 1 – 3 pm, more info here
About the Jurors:
Yuzo Nakano, Artistic Director Emeritus and Co-founder of Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California. A graduate of Tenri University and Tokyo Gendai Art Institute, Tokyo, Japan, Nakano studied printmaking with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris where he met Archana Horsting and together they founded Kala Art Institute in 1974. His work has been exhibited in commercial and public galleries throughout the world including the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, where his work is part of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. In 2014, he received a Bay Area Visionaries award from Southern Graphics International Conference. Nakano’s artwork traverses diverse media, including painting, printmaking, mixed media, music composition, multimedia performance, and digital media.
Nakano currently has a current exhibition, Fossil of Language, Yuzo Nakano – Kala Art Institute. Learn more about Nakano.
Kazuko Watanabe, a contemporary printmaker, art-book maker, and educator is a graduate of the San Francisco Academy of Art University. She has taught classes on printmaking at both the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley and the University of California, Berkeley; she continues to live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area. See Kazuko’s work.
