fern-gm-1 (color proof 1)

2015

Seiko Tachibana

(Japanese, 1946-)

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Culture

Japan

Medium

intaglio

Measurements

Platemark: 20.2 x 35.2 cm (7 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 49.7 x 66.2 cm (19 9/16 x 26 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 2022.429.3

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

When making this print, the artist Seiko Tachibana was inspired by the repeating reproductive patterns of ferns.

Description

Tachibana’s work combines Asian tradition with a modernist aesthetic through the exploration of shape, color, and spatial relationships. One of her primary explorations is that of fractals, or repeated patterns, an interest that brought her to a series of works on the self-replicating patterns of ferns. Here, she reduces the language of the fern to the simplicity of a circle, creating patterns that increase and decrease, from miniscule circular voids to commanding dark spheres, opaque to transparent.