Unknown Title, 2008 Monotype print 86 x 24 '' Lent to this exhibition by the MNSU Art Department; found in the art studio library on the first floor of Nelson, across from faculty offices. It was discovered sitting on the floor with a broken frame and in need of repair. Koichi Yamamoto is a print artist who creates works uniting traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques. He works in both large monotype prints and small, meticulously engraved plates. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta. Yamamoto is currently an artist working from Tennessee and serves as an associate professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has exhibited extensively and participated in many juried competitions around the world. Some of his works are in collections at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Center in the Portland Art Museum, and the University of Alberta Museum and Collection, Edmonton, Canada. In 2008 the he came to MNSU as a visiting artist through the Nadine B. Andreas Visiting Artist Scholar program. He created this print, which is not titled, during a workshop he lead for the fall 2008 advanced printmaking class. It is a large-scale monotype print, the first one he pulled from the press during the demonstration. Yamamoto’s prints “explore issues of the sublime, memory, and atmosphere.” Yamamoto has worked at many scales, from small and meticulously engraved copper plates to large monotypes.