An Online Presentation by Yuka Petz
October 3rd, 2024 at 7pm PDT
Watch the recording HERE
In one innocuous moment, the ground can shift beneath you and you realize the story is entirely something else. This was Yuka’s experience as a first generation Japanese-American pushing past the silence of previous generations and seeking family connections across the Pacific. Then it happened again while developing new work in response to the failures and potential revealed by finding those relatives.
In this talk, Yuka will discuss her new site-specific installation, The Reality You Were Part of Wasn’t the Reality You Knew, on view at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts’ Outlook Gallery. She will share the stories of those sudden, transitional moments, and the deep significance of the handmade paper and processes involved in making this piece that confronts sustained and broken connections to an ancestral homeland.
Yuka Petz is an artist straddling multiple disciplines. Her creative practice is centered around paper, language and text, and encompasses printmaking, drawing, books, and one-of-a-kind and limited edition works. Her work has been exhibited internationally and across the U.S., and her artist’s books are in numerous special collections. Yuka hosts the Artist’s Books Unshelved video series for the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and teaches youth and adult book arts workshops around the country. While living in New Orleans, she was an artist member of Antenna Gallery and a principal organizer of the Artist’s Book Collection at Paper Machine. She also previously co-founded SIFT, an interdisciplinary arts organization in New Orleans, and served on the Board of Directors at Seattle Center for Book Arts. Yuka holds an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently based in Tacoma, WA.
(studio photo by Ryan Warner Photography)
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