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. His works are included in the collections of the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, University, and Sumitomo Corporation, among others. He is the recent recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

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