Shinsuke Minegishi Exhibition

SHINSUKE MINEGISHI – AN EXHIBITION OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS, PRINTS & LIMITED EDITION BOOKS – WESSEL & LIEBERMAN BOOKSELLERS, SEATTLE, NOVEMBER 2 TO DECEMBER 30, 2006

Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is pleased to present the first one-person exhibition in the United States of the work of printmaker & wood engraver Shinsuke Minegishi.

The show will be on display at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers from November 2-December 30, 2006. It will feature a variety of Minegishi’s work including wood engravings for limited edition books; prints in which he employs both lithographs and wood engraving techniques; and simple wood engravings.

Shinsuke Minegishi is a Japanese printmaker and wood engraver living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1970 and moved to North America in 1993. He graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1998, and has been a lecturer and instructor there since that time. He has also been a member of the Malaspina Printmaker’s Society in Vancouver since 1998.

Minigishi has received two grants through the Canada Council for the Arts; has been the subject of solo and two-person shows in Tokyo, Yokohama, and Vancouver; and has been included in group exhibitions throughout Canada and Japan. He has received many awards for his work, including the ‘Grand Prize’ at the 4th Kyoto International Woodprint Association Exhibition in 2003.

To accompany the exhibit, Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is publishing an original essay by the artist in a limited edition; a small number of which will contain an editioned print by the artist.

Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is at 208 First Avenue South in Seattle, Washington. Phone 206-682-3545 or 888-383-3631 (toll free). E-mail: claudia@wlbooks.com.