Traveling Exhibit to Open at Pleasanton’s Museum on Main

From Exhibit Envoy: Capturing the beauty of the California coast through exquisite woodcut prints and prose, California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History is a new traveling exhibition appearing at Pleasanton’s Museum on Main from March 28 to June 25. The exhibition features artist Tom Killion’s Japanese-style woodcut prints, which vividly portray the coast’s ever-changing moods and diverse formations. From Southern California to Humboldt County, Killion’s work colorfully captures the meeting of land and sea.

Deepening the experience are complementary writings by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, carefully chosen to provide a rich history of the coast through poetry and prose. Other stirring perspectives on the California coastline come from Native Californian traditional stories, accounts of travelers, and poems by past and present California writers, including Robinson Jeffers, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, and Jaime de Angulo.

California-born artist Tom Killion is well-known for his four decades of work in the medium of woodcut printmaking. Killion uses Japanese carving tools, papers, and his own adaptation of the traditional key-block process to create relief prints of his landscapes. Killion currently resides in Point Reyes, CA and recently released his newest text, also entitled California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History, through Heyday Books in summer of 2015.

An opening reception will take place on Wednesday, April 5 from 5-7 PM.

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