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


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Solo presentation
Geary Contemporary


Millerton, NY
August 3 - September 29


SELECTED OFF-SITE EXHIBITIONS

Takuji Hamanaka in
Focus on the Flatfiles: Between Worlds
Kentler International Drawing Space
June 17 - July 31, 2022

Takuji Hamanaka in
Here and Now, curated by John Yau and Wes Sherman
Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, New Jersey
September 11 - December 11, 2020

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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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Thumbnail Image of New Yorker review of Takuji Hamanaka exhibition

Takuji Hamanaka

Johanna Fateman
The New Yorker
February 2022
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Shaking Up Op Art

John Yau


Hyperallergic
February 2020

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