• Source: Sarah Brayer

      • Sarah Brayer (born 1957) is an American artist who works in both Japan and the United States.
      She is internationally known for her poured washi paperworks, aquatint and woodblock prints. In 2013 Japan's Ministry of Culture awarded Sarah its Bunkacho Chokan Hyosho ("Commissioner of Culture Award") for dissemination of Japanese culture abroad through her creations in Echizen washi. She currently resides in Kyoto, Japan and New York, U.S.A.
      Sarah Brayer's art is in the collections of the British Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's Sackler Gallery, and the American Embassy in Tokyo.
      Brayer was featured at the TED Conference "The Young, the Wise, the Undiscovered" in Tokyo in June 2012.
      Arriving in Kyoto Kyoto in 1980, Brayer studied etching with Yoshiko Fukuda and Japanese woodblock printing with Tōshi Yoshida (1911-1996) the son of influential woodblock artist Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950). Her interest in color gradation was piqued by the woodblock technique, and she subsequently applied similar gradations to her color aquatints. In 1986 Brayer began making large-scale paperworks in the historic paper village of Imadate, Echizen, Japan.


      Influences and early works


      In the 70's Brayer became interested in Japanese aesthetics through the color aquatints of Mary Cassatt, and Raku-style ceramics.
      Arriving in Japan in 1979, she studied etching with Yoshiko Fukuda (1937-1986) and Japanese woodblock printing with Toshi Yoshida (1911-1996). In 2007, she was honored as the first western woman artist to have her work on the cover of the CWAJ Print Show catalog, the premier contemporary Japanese print show in Tokyo.
      In 1985, Brayer exhibited at the Ronin Gallery in New York, and was reviewed in the NY Times, which noted Day Glow, a large, soft-ground aquatint of Charles Street in New York City that made striking use of Oriental techniques to catch dawn in lower Manhattan.
      In 1986 she opened her own print studio in an old kimono weaving factory in Kyoto. That same year she discovered the art of poured washi, and her interest in this technique led her to the historic washi paper center of Echizen in Fukui prefecture. She has been working in the village of Echizen ever since; the only non-Japanese artist who has worked in this 800-year-old village, home to living national treasure paper-makers. She is also the only westerner to work there continuously.
      In 1999, she received a grant from the College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ), which enabled her to develop a pioneering print technique of using washi Japanese paper as a printing medium.
      Brayer's early works were realistic cityscapes and landscapes, figures or pathways through the snow. With continued experimentation, her imagery has become more abstract: the flow of a waterfall, the curve of a wave, or the passage of light through clouds.


      Recognitions


      In 2013 Japan’s Ministry of Culture awarded Sarah its Bunkacho Chokan Hyosho (“Commissioner’s Award”) for dissemination of Japanese culture abroad through her paper creations in Echizen washi.
      Sarah has been recognized in Japan as the first artist ever invited to exhibit at Byodoin Temple, a World Heritage site dating from the Heian period, as part of Kyoto’s 1200-year celebration in 1992.


      Collections


      The Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art: Oceanic Moon (2012 luminescent paperwork mural)
      The British Museum: Sojourn (1995 paperwork scroll), Dayglow (1984 aquatint), River Mist Kyoto (1982 woodblock), Yukata (1987 aquatint)
      The Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian: First Snow (‘91 aquatint), Expanse (‘95 aquatint)
      The Oregon Art Institute: Japanese Bath (‘86 aquatint)
      Zimmerli Art Museum: City Pearls (‘86 aquatint), City Light (‘85 woodblock print), Yellow Taxi (’93 paperwork/lithograph), Surge (‘95 editioned paperwork)
      Cincinnati Museum: Mankai (‘99 collagraph)
      Rochester Memorial Art Gallery: Mikazuki (’07 aquatint/paperwork), Yellow Taxi (’93 paperwork/lithograph), Spring Rice (‘82 aquatint),
      Cedar Rapids Museum of Art: Hint of Red (‘09 aquatint/paperwork)
      Smith College Museum of Art: Moontrance (‘00 lithograph)
      Shimonoseki Art Museum: Shimonoseki Pearls (’05 paperwork)
      Worcester Art Museum: Taki (’05 aquatint), Kyoto Snowfall (’81 aquatint)
      U.S. State Department: Dayglow (‘84 aquatint)
      U.S. Embassy, Tokyo: Kyoto Snowfall (‘81 aquatint)
      Newark Public Library: City Jewels (’86 aquatint), Moontrance (‘00 lithograph)
      American College Board Collection: Dayglow (‘84 aquatint)
      Johns Hopkins Hospitals: Ruby’s Paradise (‘93 paperwork)
      University Hospitals, Cleveland: Going Places (commissioned mural), Schoolgirls (‘86 aquatint), Schoolboys (‘86 aquatint), Blue Kyoto (‘87 aquatint)
      Citibank, Tokyo: Bather (‘88 lithograph)
      TRW, Los Angeles: Together (‘85 aquatint)
      RJ Reynolds: City Pearls (‘86 aquatint)
      Ozumo, San Francisco: Ryoanji Pools (‘04 paperwork), Source (‘04 paperwork)
      Ozumo, Oakland: Blue Surge (‘04 paperwork), Blue Moon (‘08 paperwork), Katsura Squares (‘08 paperwork)


      Solo exhibitions


      2014 The Castellani Museum of Art, Niagara University
      2013 The Verne Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
      2010 Luminosity: Night Paperworks, Kyoto
      2010 The Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay, California
      2010 Art in June, Rochester, New York
      2010 30 Years of Art in Kyoto
      2007 The Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay, California
      2007 Gallery Bonten, Shimonoseki, Japan
      2007 Round the Horn, Nantucket
      2006 Whisper to the Moon, Kyoto
      2005 The Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay
      2005 Gallery Bonten, Shimonoseki
      2004 Azuma Gallery, Seattle
      2004 Tokyo American Club
      2004 Esmay Fine Art, Rochester
      2004 Ronin Gallery, New York
      2002 Kato Gallery, Tokyo
      2002 The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
      2001 Hanga Ten, London, England
      2001 Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastridge, England
      2000 Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohama
      2000 Tokyo American Club
      2000 The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
      1999 The Ren Brown Collection
      1999 Gallery Bonten, Shimonoseki, Japan
      1998 Gallery Rewdex, Kyoto
      1997 The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
      1997 Ars Locus Gallery, Kyoto
      1996 Ronin Gallery, New York
      1996 Tokyo American Club, Tokyo
      1996 Gallery Bonten, Shimonoseki, Japan
      1995 Dieu Donne Gallery, New York
      1995 WICE Artspace, Paris
      1995 Daimaru Gallery, Osaka, Japan
      1995 Kanda Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
      1994 Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
      1994 Shoestring Gallery, Rochester, New York
      1994 A Sense of Place, The Verne Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
      1993 Takashimaya Gallery, Tamagawa, Tokyo, Japan
      1993 Tokyo American Club, Tokyo, Japan
      1993 The Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay, California
      1993 Galeries Ann Monnet, Kyoto, Japan
      1992 Sarah Brayer at Byodoin Temple Invitational honoring Kyoto’s 1200th year
      1992 Azuma Gallery, Seattle, Washington
      1992 Gallery Cocteau, Kyoto, Japan
      1992 Shoestring Gallery, Rochester, New York
      1992 Kanda Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
      1991 Recollections: Tokyo American Club
      1991 Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohama
      1991 Daimaru Gallery, Osaka, Japan
      1991 Takashimaya Gallery, Tamagawa, Tokyo
      1990 Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, Invitational
      1990 Ronin Gallery, New York
      1990 Shoestring Gallery, Rochester, New York
      1989 Kato Gallery, Tokyo
      1989 Gallery Blanche, Osaka
      1989 Kintetsu Gallery, Kyoto
      1989 Tokyo American Club, Tokyo
      1989 Gallery San, Kyoto
      1988 The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
      1988 April Sgro-Riddle Gallery, Los Angeles, California
      1988 Daimaru Gallery, Kobe, Japan
      1988 Shukugawa Gallery, Shukugawa, Japan
      1987 Sumi Arts, Hong Kong
      1987 The Japanese Bath and other Landscapes Carter Arcand Gallery, Portland
      1987 Kato Gallery, Kobe, Japan


      Selected group exhibitions


      2018 MOON, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY
      2014 Celestial Threads: The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
      2011 The William J. Dane Fine Print Collection, Newark Public Library
      2009 IMPACT the Big Print, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, Cal. Curated by Donna Westerman
      2009 WOOD. METAL. STONE: Contemporary Japanese prints The Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Connecticut
      2007 Catalogue Cover artist and Poster artist, for the 52nd CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan
      2005 The Color of Night: How Artists Work with Darkness, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
      2003 Japan Through Western Eyes, The Morikami Museum, Del Ray Beach, Florida
      2003 Snow in Winter: Ukiyo-e and Contemporary Prints from Japan, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
      2003 1853-2003: A Sesquicentennial Salute to Commerce and Cultural Exchange between Japan and the USA, the Newark Public Library, Newark NJ
      2002 Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne Papermill: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Travelling to Mariana Kistler-Beach Museum of Art and the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
      2001 Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne Papermill, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan; Maryland Institute College of Art
      1999 Miyabi: a Celebration of Beauty by Five American Artists of Kyoto, Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo. Produced by the Tolman Collection
      1997 Across Cultures: Five Contemporary Artists from Japan, Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
      1995 Out of the Drawing Room, Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper by Women Artists, The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
      1995 Works on Paper The Verne Collection, New York
      1994 The Verne Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
      1992 Almost a Century after Helen Hyde and Bertha Lum, the Mitzie Verne Collection, Cleveland
      1992 Accent on Paper: 15 Years at the Dieu Donne Papermill Lintas Worldwide, New York
      1990 Intaglio Printing in the 1980s The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
      1988 Relief Printing in the 1980s The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. Curated by Trudy Hansen
      1987 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
      1987 Eight Artists from Kyoto Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohama
      1987 Prints from the Yoshida Studio, Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo
      1986 "Curator’s Choice" Portland Art Institute, Oregon
      1986 Saga Print Annual New York
      1986 The Bank of Tokyo, Hong Kong
      1986 April Sgro-Riddle Gallery, Los Angeles
      1985 50/50 Monoprints-Prints Montgomery College
      1984 The Caraccio Collection, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
      1984 American Painters from Kyoto, Ronin Gallery, New York
      1984 Foreign Artists in Kyoto Hankyu Gallery, Senri Osaka
      1982-2014 The College Women’s Association of Japan Print Show Tokyo
      1998-2014 The New York Print Fair, the Armory, New York City
      1982-2010 Kyoto Etching Association Annual Kyoto City Art Center


      Publications


      2018 Sarah Brayer: The Complete Prints 1980-2018
      2011 Cover Art, Kyoto Journal, Volume 76
      2009 Cover Art, Kyoto Journal, Volume 73
      2007 Cover art, 52nd CWAJ Print Show catalog. Tokyo Poster and postcard for CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo. Nick Jones, “Paper Moon” In Touch (TAC magazine), October 2007. Tokyo “Woman By the Sea”cover art, novel in Hebrew by Itai Kohavi, Tel Aviv
      2006 Hand Papermaking summer 2006, noted exhibitions: Sarah Brayer
      2005 April Vollmer, Intersections of East and West: Contemporary Printmakers in Japan, Contemporary Impressions, Spring 2005. “City Pearls” printed in the Zimmerli Journal 3, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University of NJ. "Woman By the Sea” cover art for Shakespeare's Will by Vern Thiessen, Canada Playwrights
      2003 Rosemary T. Smith, Japan Through Western Eyes, 1854 to the Present, The Morikami Museum, Del Ray Beach, Florida CWAJ print artists and scholars create a good impression, The Japan Times, October 15, 2003 Kyoto Shimbun, feature article Nov. 11, 2003
      2002 Angela Jeffs, Celebrating “washi” in tune with Kyoto winters, The Japan Times, Nov. 30, 2002 Dai-ichi Seimei Hall, cover art, The Rubio Quartet and Yoshiko Endo Tokyo American Club magazine “47th Annual Print Show”
      2002 Kyoto Journal, inside art
      2001 Wigmore Hall, cover art, The Rubio Quartet and Yoshiko Endo
      2000 Sarah Brayer, Sarah Brayer Prints 1980-2000
      1999 Isabel Reynolds,”American artist gets it down on paper, ” The Daily Yomiuri, April 15, 1999 Five American Artist of Kyoto, Hanga Geijitsu No. 104, Tokyo Japan, p. 111
      1997 Betsy Franco & Michael Verne, Quiet Elegance: Japan Through the Eyes of Nine American Artists Across Cultures: Five Contemporary Western Artists from Japan Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College Bulletin Number 1 Trudy Hansen, Evolving Forms/Emerging Faces; Trends in Contemporary American Printmaking, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
      1995 Kyoto Journal, inside cover art, Spring 1995
      1994 “Prints and Paperworks of Sarah Brayer,” Journal of the Print World, Spring 1994. Helen Cullinan, “Prints offer views of Japan,” The Plain Dealer, May 20, 1994.
      1994 Review Roberto Casin, “Paper and Color,” Aboard magazine, May/June
      1993 “Post Modern Japanesque,” Kimono, November 1992 Peter Mallett, “ Papermaking offers Creative, Colorful Medium,” Asahi Evening News, Sept. 5, 1993
      1992 “Culture Portrait,” Photo, January 15, 1992 Journal of the Print World, Almost a Century after Helen Hyde and Bertha Lum, the Mitzie Verne Collection, Cleveland
      1991 Stewart Wachs, “Painter’s Career Flourishes in Kyoto,” The Japan Times, Feb. 10, 1991. *review
      1990 Ron Netsky, “Work from Kyoto to Brighton,” Democrat and Chronicle, May 20, 1990. *review Zimmerli Art Museum, Intaglio Printing in the 1980s
      1989 cover art Alan Booth, Tsugaru; Looking for the Lost
      1988 Zimmerli Art Museum, Relief Printing in the 1980s: Prints and Blocks from the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios Ron Netsky, “From the Beauty of Kyoto to a Regional Print Show,” Democrat and Chronicle, March 6, 1988. Stewart Wachs, “Painting with liquid paper produces new genre for Brayer,”The Japan Times, November 21, 1988. *review
      1985 Lawrence Smith, Contemporary Prints From Japan: Symbols of a Society in Transition Grace Glueck, The New York Times, March 22, 1985.* review


      Lectures and interviews


      2018 Lecture, “Luminosity," The Stoikov Lecture in Asian Art, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University
      2017 Lecture, The Print Club of New York, 2017 Presentation Artist
      2001 Lecture, “Painting With Paper," The Japan Society, London England Lecture, “Painting With Paper “, Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, England
      1995 Lecture, "Viewpoints," the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
      1992 Feature story on Byodoin exhibition, NHK News, Kyoto, September 22 Byodoin exhibition, NHK News Kansai, September 25
      1990 Lecture, “ Painting with Liquid Paper," The College Women's Association of Japan, Tokyo.
      1989 Interview “Catch Up: Tokyo Art Expo,” Marui News, Tokyo, November
      1988 Museum of Modern Art Shiga exhibition, NHK News, Kansai, November 12, 1988.


      See also


      Washi
      Etching
      Woodblock printing
      Tōshi Yoshida
      Hiroshi Yoshida


      References



      Art piece at British Museum [1]
      Artelino.com [2]
      TED Conference Sarah Brayer: [3][4]
      Japanese Prints at the Verne collection, September 15, 2010: [5]
      Franco, Betsy; Verne, Michael (1997), Quiet Elegance: Japan Through the Eyes of Nine American Artists, Tokyo: Tuttle, ISBN 0-8048-3126-2
      Japan Times: [6]
      New York Times: [7]


      External links


      Japanese Prints at the Verne Collection, September 15, 2010: [8]
      Japan Times: [9]
      New York Times: [10]
      Deep Kyoto Magazine [11]
      Reference at British Museum [12]
      TED Conference:[13]* [14]
      Cultural agency doles out awards to those promoting Japan, The Japan Times, June 6, 2013: [15]
      List of American artists 1900 and after

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