The Choreography Around the Press | How can space affect prints?
Wednesday, February 7, 2024; 7pm
As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Rinako Sonobe spent the past 15 months traveling to 17 countries, visiting more than 100 printshops to explore the relationship between architecture and printmaking. Working with architectural sketches and time-lapses of the movements in space, she documented how printmakers use space. Through interviews with artists, printmakers, printers worldwide, she collected personal stories and histories. Join us to hear more about her jouney and findings on different printmaking cultures.
Rinako Sonobe (b. Tokyo, Japan) is an architect and printmaker, currently based in Tokyo. Having studied architecture at Wellesley College and Massachusetts Institule of Technology, she brings her academic background to the print medium with the hope to blur the boundaries of the two disciplines. Throughout the years. Rinako's printmaking practice has been supported by grants and residencies including Frans Masereel Centrum (Kasterlee, Belgium) and Fundacion 'ace (Buenos Aires, Argentina) along with her work experience in both Japan and the US in the architectural field, but also in printmaking including the beloved Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (New York, NY).
