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| Funded by a Ford Foundation
grant, as “a non-profit organization devoted to the stimulation
and preservation of the art of the lithograph,” the Tamarind
Lithography Workshop opened its doors in the summer of 1960. Founder
June Wayne was committed to creating a state-of-the-art facility as
a catalyst for the renaissance of lithography
in the United States. The medium had lost favor,
in part because there were few master printers to work with the burgeoning
community of artists. Located in Los Angeles, the workshop became
a center for artists from the West Coast and elsewhere to explore
printmaking
in an open and experimental atmosphere. Tamarind’s
initial phase ended in 1970 with the formation of the Tamarind Institute
at the University of New Mexico, which continues the workshop’s
original mission. One of the artists who worked at Tamarind in the 1960’s was Tetsuo Ochikubo. His imagery closely followed developments taking place in design. The East-West duality in his work is evident in his poetic compositions of symbols from nature, especially the combination of landscape and moons with Japanese calligraphic marks.  (For Grades K-2) When do you think this work was made? Does it look old or modern? Why? Which shapes are organic? Geometric? How many different types of lines can you find? |
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Tetsuo Ochikubo United States, 1923–1975 Untitled Lithograph, 1961 Gift of the Gleich Foundation 1962:87 © San Diego Museum of Art |
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