Yuji hiratsuka biography of barack
Hiratsuka was born in Osaka, Japan....
HIRATSUKA Yuji - 平塚 雄二 (b.President.
1954)
intaglio / chine collé
When I asked Yuji Hiratsuka why he moved to the US from Japan in 1985, I never expected to hear that it was quite by chance. After graduating from Tokyo Gakugei University Yuji moved back home to Osaka and taught art to middle-and high-school students.
It was unfulfilling work for him at the time, although it provided a steady income. When he spotted an advertisement in the World Print Council Quarterly magazine for a graduate assistantship position at New Mexico State University, he applied right away and was accepted. Eventually he moved to Oregon where he has been a professor of printmaking at Oregon State University in Corvallis since 1992.
The Portland Art Museum has been holding a fine print fair for the past few years, and my participation in the fair is my annual opportunity to see him. He invariably brings his students to the fine print fair; it is a good chan