IMC 2024 Echizen submission

The piece submitted by Nichol Markowitz to the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference was selected through the Americas regional jury process for display in Echizen, Japan. While the specific imagery of this submission is not widely documented in public records, mokuhanga prints accepted into IMC juried exhibitions typically demonstrate the practitioner's command of water-based pigments, the [baren](/glossary/baren) as a hand-burnishing tool, and the use of kozo-fiber washi — the last especially significant given Echizen's centuries-old role as a center of Japanese papermaking. Contemporary American mokuhanga often departs from the figurative traditions of [nishiki-e](/glossary/nishiki-e), [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga), and [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e), instead working in abstraction, landscape, or personal narrative through the medium's characteristic layered transparency and [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations. Markowitz's inclusion in the 2024 Americas regional exhibition situates her practice within the international community of mokuhanga artists convened triennially by the IMC, an organization that has progressively extended the medium's reach beyond its Edo-period origins into a global studio practice grounded in shared technical vocabulary rather than a single regional school.