Portrait of a Young WomanPortrait Young Woman, 1998 Offset Lithograph Edition of 100 22 x 30 in Collaborating Printer: Bob Franklin At the center of this print is a young woman photographed in another era, her gaze steady and composed, her presence weighted with a history that was never fully recorded. Tomie Arai built this work from archival photographs, family stories, and oral histories, part of a larger series dedicated to recovering the human experience within the

when I came to Philadelphia

he enlarged the photograph in his sunlit bedroom and watched the light fall across her face

Working through a modern approach to engraving

Forming a grid structure

Edition of 90

It kindles our imagination and leads us to realms of wordless thought

” This is the motto of celebrated contemporary artist Hideki Kimura

University of Pennsylvania

her presence weighted with a history that was never fully recorded

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Bouton is drawn to buildings at every stage of their life: new construction

Figuration and abstraction that merge into the same canvas and that have been refined until reaching an essence where only some minimal references are needed to enter the city