Biography
Pat Rougeau is a San Francisco Bay Area–based American mokuhanga printmaker who works in the contemporary water-based Japanese woodblock tradition. Alongside her printmaking she has had a career as a technology executive: the documentation of The Oxbow School — the residential semester art school in Napa, California — records her as a Berkeley, California–based technology executive and lists her among the school's past trustees, where she served as vice chair. As a mokuhanga printmaker she works in the water-based woodblock method shared by the contemporary North American practice of the technique, in which the design is carved into wood with Japanese tools and hand-printed with water-based pigments onto Japanese washi using a baren. Her print World Within World (2021) was accepted into the juried international exhibition of the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference in Japan. Beyond these documented points, the specifics of her training, studio, gallery representation, and fuller exhibition record are not part of her publicly indexed profile.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Pat Rougeau is a San Francisco Bay Area–based American mokuhanga printmaker who works in the contemporary water-based Japanese woodblock tradition. Alongside her printmaking she has had a career as a technology executive: the documentation of The Oxbow School — the residential semester art school in Napa, California — records her as a Berkeley, California–based technology executive and lists her among the school's past trustees, where she served as vice chair. As a mokuhanga printmaker she works in the water-based woodblock method shared by the contemporary North American practice of the technique, in which the design is carved into wood with Japanese tools and hand-printed with water-based pigments onto Japanese washi using a baren. Her print World Within World (2021) was accepted into the juried international exhibition of the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference in Japan. Beyond these documented points, the specifics of her training, studio, gallery representation, and fuller exhibition record are not part of her publicly indexed profile.
Pat Rougeau'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.