ARTIST STATEMENT

My image starts from the shape of nature, like trees, clouds, light, shadows etc. The image recalls memories. Sky that continues to the end, flow of light, smell of trees, feel of the land, from that point my creation starts. In the morning, the sun was rising and the wind was blowing.  At dusk I got tired and went to bed. I have been fascinated by the flow of cloud, light through the trees since I was a child.

I reduce the multicolor printing technology of lithographs and etchings to monotypes and perform multicolor printing. My monotypes explore the beauty of overlapping colors caused by stacking multiple plates. Each plate is carefully prepared and overprinted to create an impressive light. 

BIO

Born in Japan, Miki Nagano studied printmaking at Tama Art University in Tokyo, Philadelphia College of Art, Pratt Graphic Center and Printmaking Workshop in NYC.  She currently lives and works in New Jersey.  Though her work is centered in the areas of NYC and Philadelphia, she has shown her pieces at exhibitions in the USA and Japan. Her etchings and monotypes are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Library of Congress, The World Bank, The New York Public Library, The Free Library of Philadelphia,  Newark Public Library, among others. She received the 1982 Jerome Foundation Award at the Printmaking Workshop, New York.