This article in English: Sarah Brayer - Biography
"Sarah Brayer's work has charmed me ever since I ran across her prints in a Ronin Gallery catalog in 1987. Her work has an indescribable emotional appeal. The subject matter of her early prints is Japanese in nature, yet any viewer can easily relate the imagery to events and feelings in his or her own life."
(Michael Verne)
Sarah Brayer lebt in Kyoto/Japan und in New York/USA. Sie ist heute für ihre Papierarbeiten, Aquatinten und Holzschnitte bekannt. Nach ihrer Ankunft in Kyoto 1980 studierte sie Radierung bei Yoshiko Fukuda und traditionellen Holzschnitt bei Toshi Yoshida. Kunstwerke von Sarah Brayer befinden sich in den Sammlungen des British Museum, der Smithsonian Sackler Gallery und der Amerikanischen Botschaft in Tokio.
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Dieter Wanczura
(Juni 2006, überarbeitet November 2009)
Sarah Brayer ist heute von ihren Papierarbeiten bestens bekannt. Zuerst studierte die Rochesterin, geboren 1957 in New York, Druckgraphik seit 1978 am Middlesex Polytechnic in London und erwarb 1979 ihren B.A.-Grad am Connecticut College. Sie interessierte sich besonders für die Farb-Aquatinten von Mary Cassatt sowie von japanischer Kunst und Ästhetik durch die Raku-Keramik. Diese Interessen führten sie dazu, ihre künstlerische Ausbildung in Japan fortzusetzen.
1980 in Kyoto angekommen, studierte sie Radierung bei Yoshiko Fukuda (1937-1986) und traditionellen Holzschnitt bei Toshi Yoshida (1911-1996), dem Sohn des einflussreichen Holzschnittkünstlers HHiroshi Yoshida. Ihr Interesse an Farbabstufung war durch die Holzschnitttechnik geschürt und sie wandte vergleichbare Verläufe in ihren Farb-Aquatinten an.
1986 besuchte sie die Dieu Donne Papermill in New York City und begegnete dort zum ersten Mal "Poured Paperwork" - der Technik, die sie sich bald zu Eigen machte. Diese etwas unvorhersehbare, doch malerische Technik schien eine ideale Mischung aus Zufall und Entwurf, die sie zur Stadt der historischen japanischen Papierherstellung Imadate führte, als eines Ortes, wo sie mit "Poured-Paper-Bildern" in großem Masstab experimentieren konnte.
Aktuell lebt Brayer in Kyoto, sich ihre Arbeitszeit zwischen Kyoto, Imadate und New York teilend.
Arbeiten auf Papier von Sarah Brayer sind bei einigen der feinsten Galerien für zeitgenössische japanische Kunst vertreten. Dies ist keine vollständige Liste, aber eine kleine Auswahl von solchen Galerien, die an höchsten Positionen der Suchmaschinen aufgeführt werden, wenn nach Sarah Brayer gesucht wird.
The Verne Collection, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
The Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay, CA, USA.
The Tolman Collection, Tokyo, Japan.
Ronin Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Azuma Gallery. Seattle, WA, USA.
2004 - Azuma Gallery, Seattle, U.S.A.
2004 - American Club in Tokyo, Japan.
2004 - Ronin Gallery, New York: internet exhibit.
2003 - Galleria LL, Kobe, Japan.
2002 - Kato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2002 - The Tolman Collection, Tokyo, Japan.
2001 - Hanga Ten, London, England.
2001 - Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastridge, England.
2001 - Izumi-en, Osaka, Japan.
2001 - Ars Locus Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.
2000 - Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohama, Japan.
2000 - Tokyo American Club, Japan.
2000 - The Tolman Collection, 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, U.S.A.
Snow in Winter: Ukiyo-e and Contemporary Prints from Japan, The Daiwa
Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London.
1853-2003:! A Sesquicentennial Salute to Commerce and Cultural Exchange between
Japan and the USA, the Newark Public Library, Newark NJ, U.S.A.
2002 - Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne Papermill:
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
2002 - Mariana Kistler-Beach Museum of Art, U.S.A.
2002 - Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
2001 - Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne Papermill , Kresge
Art Museum, Michigan; Maryland Institute College of Art
The British Museum.
The Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute
Oregon Art Institute
The University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
The Newark Public Library
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
US. State Department, Washington, DC
American Embassy, Tokyo
University Hospitals, Cleveland
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Citibank, Tokyo
TRW Collection, Los Angeles
American College Board Collection of American Prints
Ozumo Restaurant, Newport Beach
The Jewish Home, Rochester, New York
154 Corporation, Tokyo
RJ Reynolds/MC Tobacco, Tokyo.
2001 - Japan 2001 sponsorship, London, England.
1990 - The College Women's Association of Japan 35th Anniversary Grant for
Print Artists, Tokyo/Japan.
1979 - cum laude Studio Art, Connecticut College, New London, U.S.A.
1978 - The Marguerite Hanson Award for Art Connecticut College, U.S.A.
2005 - "City Pearls" printed in the Zimmerli Journal 3, Zimmerli Art Museum,
Rutgers University of NJ, U.S.A.
2003 - Rosemary T. Smith, Japan Through Western Eyes, 1854 to the Present,
The Morikami Museum, Del Ray Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
2003 - CWAJ print artists and scholars create a good impression, The Japan Times,
October, 15, 2003, Japan.
2003 - Kyoto Shimbun, feature article Nov. 11, 2003, Japan.
2003 - Angela Jeffs, Celebrating "washi" in tune with Kyoto winters, The Japan
Times, Nov. 30, 2002, Japan.
2003 - Dai-ichi Seimei Hall, cover art, The Rubio Quartet and Yoshiko Endo
Tokyo American Club magazine "47th Annual Print Show", Japan.
2002 - Kyoto Journal, inside art, Japan.
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.
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.
1997 - Across Cultures: Five Contemporary Western Artists from Japan.
1997 - Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College Bulletin Number 1.
1997 - 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.
1994 - Helen Cullinan, "Prints offer views of Japan", The Plain Dealer, May 20,
1994. *review.
1994 - Roberto Casin, "Paper and Color", Aboard magazine, May/June 1994.
1993 - "Post Modern Japanesque", Kimono, November 1992.
1993 - Peter Mallett, "Papermaking offers Creative, Colorful Medium", Asahi
Evening News, Sept. 5, 1993, Japan.
1992 - "Culture Portrait", Photo, January 15, 1992.
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.
1990 - Zimmerli Art Museum, Intaglio Printing in the 1980's.
1989 - cover art Alan Booth, Tsugaru; Looking for the Lost.
1988 - Zimmerli Art Museum, Relief Printing in the 1980's: Prints and Blocks
from the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios.
1988 - Ron Netsky, "From the Beauty of Kyoto to a Regional Print Show".
Democrat and Chronicle, March 6, 1988.
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.
1985 - Grace Glueck, The New York Times, March 22, 1985.* review.
Michael Verne and Betsey Franco verfassten ein von Tuttle Books veröffentlichtes Buch
Quiet Elegance
Japan through the eyes of nine American Artists
2001 - Lecture, "Painting With Paper", The Japan Society, London, England.
2001 - Lecture, "Painting With Paper", Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, England.
1995 - Lecture, Viewpoints, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.
1995 - Lecture, the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University.
1992 - Feature story on Byodoin exhibition, NHK News, Kyoto, September 22nd
News report on Byodoin exhibition, NHK News Kansai, September 25th.
1990 - Lecture, "Painting with Liquid Paper", The College Women's Association
of Japan, Tokyo.
1990 - Lecture, Art Department, Connecticut College, U.S.A.
1989 - Interview "Catch Up: Tokyo Art Expo" Marui News, Tokyo, November.
1988 - Review of Museum of Modern Art Shiga exhibition, NHK News, Kansai,
November 12, 1988.
2004 - Washi Art, Ozumo restaurant, Newport Beach, California, U.S.A.
2003 Print edition, the Verne Collection, Cleveland, U.S.A.
2003 Washi fusuma doors, private residence, Kyoto, Japan.
2001 Paper door paintings, private residence, Kobe, Japan.
1997 Paperwork mural, Ars Locus Concert Hall, Kyoto, Japan.
1995 Paperwork edition, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, U.S.A.
1993 Paperwork mural, Johns Hopkins Hospitals, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
1992 Print edition, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, Canada.
1989 Watercolor mural, University Hospitals McDonnell Women's Hospital,
Cleveland, U.S.A.
1988 Various art works, Boit Des Amour restaurant, Osaka, Japan.
1988 Print edition, Citibank, Tokyo, Japan.
editiert von Dieter Wanczura
(Juni 2006, überarbeitet November 2009)
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