Woodblock Printmaking is the art of using wood to mash ink onto paper. Moku Hanga translates to something like wood pictures or wood graphics, and is the Japanese name for printmaking. In 2004, she curated the exhibition, Mirror of the Wood: A Century of the Woodcut Print in Finland, which traveled to the United States in 2005. Also, I am going to use the terms Japanese Woodblock Printmaking and Moku Hanga interchangeably. Kunc has taught numerous workshops around the world and served as a visiting artist in over 100 institutions. Her work has also been exhibited internationally at the State Museum at Majdanek, Lublin, Poland the 6th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, Chamalieres, France Invitational, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan Intergrafia, Poland and the International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Her works have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada the Ball State University Atrium Gallery, Muncie, Indiana and Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan. Class Size: 25 Credits per quarter Log in to add this offering to your saved list. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she has taught since 1983. japanese style color woodblock print (moku hanga) on Awagami Shiramine paper watercolor and pigments paper size : 230 x 300 mm (9.05 x 11. Karen Kunc was born in Omaha, NE in 1952. I recognize a host of associations that flow out of my work and are research interests for me - from nature and science, spiritual and religious thought, art historical and modern icons, immigration narratives and native myths.” “My symbolic images are derived from a rich mix of instilled influences, born at home, and greatly expanded and contextualized from seeing life lived the world over, my experiences and past work, and issues in contemporary art. Written by renowned Australian Mokuhanga artist Terry McKenna, this book constitutes the first extensive explanation that we are aware of outlining the. My hope is that these larger concepts are provoked by viewing my work with a poetic and intelligent sense of wonder. I am interested in the span of time it takes to wear away a canyon, build a mountain, the erosion forces that continually wash onto the plains, forming the earth, and, ultimately, shaping our world. “My prints suggest extremes of weather and natural forces at work, a sense of the micro/macrocosm, set against landscape or space, both wild and cultivated, intimate and unknowable. “My work as an artist/printmaker addresses issues of the landscape and our natural surroundings as direct influences from my Nebraska heritage, my daily experiences and viewpoints in the landscape of the plains and from extensive travel, and as artistic interpretation and contemplation on larger issues of the eternal life struggle, of endurance and vulnerability, growth and destruction.
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