Credit: Takao Tanabe, Nootka Afternoon, 1993, woodblock print on paper. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Photo Vancouver Art Gallery
Takao Tanabe: Printmaker
Organized by the Kelowna Art Gallery with Guest Curator Ian M. Thom, this exhibition features over sixty prints by renowned artist Takao Tanabe from their collection, as well as Vancouver Art Gallery and Winnipeg Art Gallery’s collections.
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Tanabe is among Canada’s most celebrated painters and printmakers, recognized for his landscapes that bridge the gap between abstraction and realism. This iteration of the exhibition will additionally feature selections from Surrey Art Gallery’s own permanent collection.
As well as the tranquil, contemplative portrayals of the Gulf Islands and the Albertan plains for which he is widely known, the exhibition also includes screen-printed hard-edge colour abstractions from the 1960s, monotypes (single editions) of natural forms from the 1950s, and even some of the physical woodblocks used to produce his more recent prints.
Featured works include Prairie Storm (1979), a landscape that breaks broader conventions in printmaking by incorporating ink hand brushing techniques, and Nootka Afternoon (1993), a woodcut print that utilizes form and colour to depict a stillness between ocean and land.
This exhibition is organized by the Kelowna Art Gallery with Guest Curator Ian M. Thom. It is accompanied by an illustrated exhibition catalogue with essays by Guest Curator Ian M. Thom and Curator Christine May.
Guest curator: Ian M. Thom
Origin of exhibition: Kelowna Art Gallery