A New Home

I'm pretty happy to say that my monoprint, A New Home, is going to be part of a summer-long show at the Washington State History Museum.  The show is called In the Spirit: a Contemporary Northwest Native Art Exhibit and it opens June 21.  This summer just keeps getting better and better!

Image copyright Miki'ala Souza, 2012.  Thats right.

Simon Kaan

Simon Kaan is a Chinese, Maori (Ngai Tahu), and European artist whose lineage all comes together in his amazing prints and paintings.  He lives and works in New Zealand and uses Maori forms and subjects in his art. They also have a sepia or black & white tone to them, and are full of balance and space that remind me of Chinese landscapes.  He uses multiple horizon lines to create depths of sky or ocean and this space is often connected and pinned down by a flying moth or the tip of a canoe.  I think they're pretty darn beautiful and their minimal lines still give us so much to look at.  

Prints

Some prints and paintings by Masami Teraoka showing how east meets west and past meets present.

And a couple of prints by my current favorite, Yuji Hiratsuka.  Ive been lucky enough to spend some good quality time with that second one in person.  I just cant get enough of it.

Charles Bartlett

The Surf Rider, 1921

Today my mom and I went to the Art Academy to see the Charles Bartlett exhibit. Beautiful prints, drawings and paintings from his travels through India, China, and Japan until he settled in Hawaii. These three are some of my favorites. Check out the sky and the water in all of them. I would post everything I saw today if i could.

Peshawar, 1919

The Golden Temple, Amristsar, 1925