Pressed, Pulled, Printed installation view
Pressed, Pulled, Printed: Kimiko Miyoshi & Tava Tedesco
December 6, 2024 – January 4, 2025
Meet the Artists, Saturday, January 4th
1 – 3 pm
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.
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Kimiko Miyoshi
Artist Statement
I’ve been thinking about “serendipity” and how I notice things that are seemingly related to other things I already knew. When discovering that two stories that I heard in two completely different cities were about the same event or finding out a writer whom I admired had committed suicide when he learned about the death of another writer whom I worship (without knowing their connection), it feels that the world is connected. When researching a little-known scientist whose imaginative “discoveries” and “wrong” but beautiful astronomical maps drew me, I happened to find that another passion of his was Japanese culture. He lived there for nine years and wrote several papers on the Japanese language. When locating a book on him at a local library, on it, I found an old bookplate by another obscure American biologist whose book I consulted more than two-dozen-years ago to draw lichens. It is somewhat illogical and hard to explain, but when it happens, I feel I am on the right path.
I am also drawn to trivial and forgotten objects. I am attracted to phenomena that are too absurd to be taken seriously or too ordinary to be noticed. As I often feel rather powerless and invisible in this contemporary digitized society, these forgotten objects and insignificant events are ciphers for a state of being akin to mine.
I don’t really pursue a style or mannerism, but rather, different visual characteristics or processes are utilized to explore assorted interests. Creative activity, nevertheless, is a way to find the bigger picture and how different ideas in my brain relate to one another, often guided by serendipity and its irrational logic.
– Kimiko Miyoshi
Tava Tedesco
Artist Statement
Tava’s work investigates locations through a blend of documentation and play. She utilizes digital fabrication, printmaking, photography, and drawing to represent and question landscapes, examining our unavoidable interactions with the natural world and how these moments shape our understanding and responses to the landscapes we encounter. By engaging with varied documentation systems, Tava distills the collected research through different media and visual approaches, embedding personal perspectives and choices into the work.
– Tava Tedesco
This exhibition is made possible, in part, by generous support from–
