Biography
Patricia Clark is an American printmaker and arts educator whose work is represented in the Kentler International Drawing Space's mokuhanga Flatfiles collection in Brooklyn, New York, and among the published editions of the Mokuhanga Project Space. A Master Printmaker and Professor Emeritus at California State University, Long Beach, she founded Atelier 6000 (A/6) in Bend, Oregon, a printmaking studio that later became part of the Bend Art Center. Her work engages environmental themes, particularly a concern for the vanishing landscapes and watersheds of the Northwest and the fluctuating water table.
Her print 'The Water Table' (2018) exemplifies her collaboration with the Mokuhanga Project Space, an initiative that commissions contemporary designs and realizes them as traditional Japanese water-based woodblock prints. Working from Clark's image, the Japanese master printer Kitamura Shoichi carved and printed the edition of thirty as a mokuhanga woodcut on Echizen Hongusa Torinoko washi paper measuring 8.25 by 10.75 inches. The choice of Echizen washi, one of the most prestigious handmade papers in Japan with centuries of tradition behind it, reflects the project's commitment to the material foundations of the mokuhanga process.
Clark's inclusion in both the Kentler Flatfiles and the Mokuhanga Project Space's published-prints program places her work within the active international community of artists and printers dedicated to preserving and extending the mokuhanga tradition.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Abstract
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Patricia Clark is an American printmaker and arts educator whose work is represented in the Kentler International Drawing Space's mokuhanga Flatfiles collection in Brooklyn, New York, and among the published editions of the Mokuhanga Project Space. A Master Printmaker and Professor Emeritus at California State University, Long Beach, she founded Atelier 6000 (A/6) in Bend, Oregon, a printmaking studio that later became part of the Bend Art Center. Her work engages environmental themes, particularly a concern for the vanishing landscapes and watersheds of the Northwest and the fluctuating water table.
Patricia Clark'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.
Patricia Clark's prints frequently feature abstract.