{"id":68702,"date":"2013-09-09T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=68702"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:17:26","slug":"bold-printmakers-from-japan-maine-images-by-iconic-photographer-featured-at-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/09\/bold-printmakers-from-japan-maine-images-by-iconic-photographer-featured-at-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold printmakers from Japan, Maine images by iconic photographer featured at Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Koichi Kiyono’s “Cultivation II,” etching on cotton-wool and felt with hand sewing, appears in the Museum of Art exhibition “Redefining The Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Images of Maine by famed 20th-century photographer Berenice Abbott and prints by Japanese artists known for pushing the boundaries of printmaking media will be exhibited this fall at the Bates College Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

Opening Sept. 13 and showing through Dec. 14 are the exhibitions Redefining The Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers<\/em> and Selections from Berenice Abbott’s “Portrait of Maine<\/em>.“<\/em><\/p>\n

Hideki Kimura, whose work is represented in the print show and who co-curated it with Sam Yates, director of the University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, where the show originated, discusses the exhibition at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in the museum. A reception follows.<\/p>\n

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“Balancing Act” (c. 1965), gelatin silver print by Berenice Abbott. Museum purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Abbott images were published in her 1968 book A Portrait of Maine<\/em>, and the original photographs in Selections<\/em> were acquired for the Bates museum’s permanent collection from 2005 to 2007.<\/p>\n

The exhibitions mark the reopening of the Bates College Museum of Art following a summer spent installing a new, state-of-the-art LED lighting system<\/a><\/strong> designed to both reduce the museum’s environmental footprint and improve the museum viewing experience for visitors.<\/p>\n

The museum is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and until 7 p.m. Wednesdays during the academic year. For more information, please call 207-786-6158.<\/p>\n