Artist Biography
Jeera Rattanangkoon has a unique printmaking style and approach: He combines visually simplistic, graphic elements with exacting and labor intensive techniques.
Rattanangkoon’s prints Bounty and Angel Lake are both complex reduction block woodcuts that make use of dozens of colors from multiple printings and subtle gradations from split-fount inking. Delicate, fine lines are scribed into his woodbocks and pointilist dots perforate the matrices’ surface creating a sense of light and elegant detail in the final prints. Similarly, the artist’s first lithograph, Trees, combines elaborate layers of drawing and complicated inking patterns to achieve the end result.
Rattanangkoon studied at the Poa Chung College of Arts and Crafts in Bangkok, Thailand. He continued his printmaking studies with artist Hiroki Morinoue after moving to Hawaii in 1994.
Selected Collections: Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, Honolulu, HI; Sprint, Overland Park, Kansas
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