PRINT Exhibition • 2D | 3D Works
February 23 – March 17, 2017
Opening Reception: February 23rd, 5 - 7 P.M.

Exhibiting Artists  
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Miguel Aragón - Best of Show 2D
Dustyn Bork
Andrew DeCaen - Best of Show 3D
Robert Hosea
Justin Lorenzen
Scott Ludwig
Wayne Madsen
Pamela Marks

2D | 3D Works • Exhibition Archives
2015 Imagine the Fantastic
2014 Art & Social Change
2013 Open Call
2012 Visual Poetry
2011 Figurative Works

2010 Color & Design

Mayumi Hamanaka

Communications and Gallery Director
Kala Art Institute
Berkeley, California

Mayumi Hamanaka, originally from Japan, is a visual artist, curator and educator. She is the Communications and Gallery Director at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California. She has been working at Kala and sharing her talents with Kala for a decade now. She received her M.F.A from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and her B.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of the De Young Museum Artist Fellowship, Murphy Fellowship Award, Taipei Artist Village Fellowship, and others. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally including Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Swarm Gallery, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Asian American Art Center in NYC. She has taught at California College of the Arts, Diablo Valley College, and Berkeley City College.

Juror Statement
The artwork selected here represents a wide variety of print processes – traditional printmaking techniques, expanded process of image/mark/indentation making, adding new materials on to the print surface or applying printed images on a different medium.

Prints are usually created by the combination of artistic hand and machine process, and historically used for distribution of ideas with texts and images as a form of information and story sharing. It’s a unique form of art that has both functionality and artistic expression. Artists have a view of their final products, but sometimes the magic in the printing process creates unexpected effects and they spark the viewers to see something unintended or surprising that reflects what’s happening at the moment in a society - historical indentation of time and the moment.

What ties the work selected in the exhibition is uncanniness, something beautiful and eerie but strangely familiar, that comes from each piece. Through the artists’ concepts, their choice of printing medium, techniques and the final results, the work in the exhibition inspires ambiguous questions about psychological connection and disjunction that we encounter in our everyday life, exploring something essential in our larger social and ecological systems.

—Mayumi Hamanaka