Biography
Anne DeMaria is an American mokuhanga printmaker whose work explores botanical and natural subjects through the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique. Based in the United States, she maintains an active practice in mokuhanga woodcut printing that has brought her to international exhibitions and conferences.
DeMaria's piece 'Heritage of Plants,' a mokuhanga woodcut print measuring 48.3 by 33.0 centimeters, was exhibited at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen, Japan in 2024. The work was selected for the juried Americas exhibition, which featured forty-seven artists from North and South America under the conference theme 'Inheritance and Innovation: Mokuhanga Artists Explore Japanese Paper.' The title of the work reflects her interest in the cultural and botanical heritage embedded in plant forms, a subject that connects naturally to mokuhanga's traditional use of plant-derived materials including wood blocks, water-based pigments, and washi paper made from plant fibers.
DeMaria's participation in the 2024 IMC conference, held at the Imadate Art Center in Echizen City in April 2024, placed her within the gathering of one hundred and forty artists from around the world who are advancing mokuhanga as a living artistic tradition. The conference's focus on the relationship between mokuhanga and Japanese paper resonated with her botanical subject matter, highlighting the deep connections between the natural world and the printmaking medium.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
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- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Anne DeMaria is an American mokuhanga printmaker whose work explores botanical and natural subjects through the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique. Based in the United States, she maintains an active practice in mokuhanga woodcut printing that has brought her to international exhibitions and conferences.
Anne DeMaria's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
