Special Announcement: Project Wall Reception

Yuko Yamaguchi, -The first day of the year-, 2023, etching on paper, 10x8”

Stop by for a closer look this Sunday

You are cordially invited to IS Projects this Sunday, February 18th from 4PM to 7PM to celebrate the new work on our Project Wall.

We are excited to share a selection of Yuko Yamaguchi’s monotypes, as well as a print from a new edition of etchings. She is currently an artist in residence here at IS Projects through our Key Holder Residency. A closer look at her work reveals that there is more to what she makes than the control that her expertly balanced compositions and sparing use of color may indicate. In these works, she has set herself up with simple constraints — very few pigments, very few passes through the press — so that all of the play, wildness, and weirdness is saved for the construction of the image. In the images, she makes a wide variety of marks with a perplexing range of tools. The marks seem to subvert and support the images that they construct. Familiar images swim up out of the dark fields of ink and texture, and fall apart again into energetic forms. Grounded by her deep care for the technical foundations of printmaking, Yamaguchi balances her rigor and flexibility to yield prints which reflect these qualities in her practice and in her movement through the world.

To learn more about Yuko Yamaguchi, you can read her bio on our Key Holder page. She will also be happy to chat with you at the reception, where we will be in the studio celebrating these works with drinks, snacks, and good company. 

Please feel free to drop by! If you RSVP, though, we can make sure to have enough snacks and drinks for all.

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