Biography
Anne Goesel is an international mokuhanga printmaker based in Japan who works in the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique. Her practice is documented through her Instagram account and participation in major international mokuhanga exhibitions.
Goesel exhibited at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen, Japan in 2024, where her work was selected for the juried Asia exhibition featuring twenty-nine artists working in or from the Asian region. The conference, themed 'Inheritance and Innovation: Mokuhanga Artists Explore Japanese Paper,' was held at the Imadate Art Center in Echizen City, one of Japan's most celebrated traditional production areas for washi paper.
Her presence in Japan and her identification with the Asian regional exhibition at the IMC conference suggests a deep immersion in the Japanese context for mokuhanga practice, working within the cultural environment where the tradition originated rather than practicing it from abroad. This proximity to mokuhanga's home tradition -- its master printers, traditional tool makers, and washi producers -- provides a distinctive foundation for her artistic work.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
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Frequently Asked Questions
Anne Goesel is an international mokuhanga printmaker based in Japan who works in the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique. Her practice is documented through her Instagram account and participation in major international mokuhanga exhibitions.
Anne Goesel'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.
Anne Goesel is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.
