Pressed, Pulled, Printed: Kimiko Miyoshi & Tava Tedesco

December 6, 2024 – January 4, 2025

See exhibition online HERE

In Pressed, Pulled, Printed, we invite you to explore printmaking not only as a technical process but as an experience that connects these two artists through the versatile medium. This exhibition showcases printmaking as a bridge between creative practices, highlighting how its processes blend craft with experimentation and conceptual inquiry. While we honor the art of hand-made multiples, we also celebrate the print shop as a generative laboratory, a space for continuous discovery and revision, where boundaries between disciplines blur and materials are shaped to express underlying ideas.

– Kimiko Miyoshi and Tava Tedesco

Kimiko Miyoshi’s printmaking experience began as a collaborative silkscreen printer in Japan. She was also involved in the reproduction of Ukiyo-E as a Kira printer. After receiving her MFA in Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, she built scientific exhibitions for the Explora Science Center, a children’s science museum in Albuquerque, NM. The work had a great effect on her creative practice and observational habits. She currently teaches printmaking at CSU, Long Beach

Tava Tedesco currently resides and works in Long Beach, California. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and her Master of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach. As a mother of a young daughter, Tedesco is fascinated by the exploratory nature of youth and their environment. Playfulness, research, and image analysis are key elements in her work, which focuses on nature, color, photography, and digital media. Tedesco is an Assistant Professor in the printmaking program at CSU, Long Beach.