Biography
Tomoe Suzuki (鈴木智惠) is a Japanese lithographer. She works in an ongoing lithographic series titled 'a moment', in which the individual prints are numbered in sequence — for example, 'a moment -11-8' and 'a moment -14-5' (75 x 56 cm, edition of 10). Her prints have been exhibited in the CWAJ (College Women's Association of Japan) Print Show in Tokyo, a well-known annual exhibition that has presented a wide range of printmaking techniques — woodblock, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen and more — since its founding in the 1950s; her work from the 'a moment' series was included in the 58th Print Show in 2013. Working in lithography, Suzuki draws on the medium's capacity for soft, layered tonal modeling, which gives her prints their atmospheric, quietly narrative character. She continues to work as a printmaker.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
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Tomoe Suzuki (鈴木智惠) is a Japanese lithographer. She works in an ongoing lithographic series titled 'a moment', in which the individual prints are numbered in sequence — for example, 'a moment -11-8' and 'a moment -14-5' (75 x 56 cm, edition of 10). Her prints have been exhibited in the CWAJ (College Women's Association of Japan) Print Show in Tokyo, a well-known annual exhibition that has presented a wide range of printmaking techniques — woodblock, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen and more — since its founding in the 1950s; her work from the 'a moment' series was included in the 58th Print Show in 2013. Working in lithography, Suzuki draws on the medium's capacity for soft, layered tonal modeling, which gives her prints their atmospheric, quietly narrative character. She continues to work as a printmaker.
Tomoe Suzuki'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.
