Rica Bando

I am a printer, specializing in lithography.
Lithography is a 200 year old printing technique, invented in Germany. Unlike the etching or engraving on metal plates, it is a planographic printing process based on the resistance of water to grease. An image is drawn on a limestone or on an aluminum plate with a greasy substance, such as a crayon or ink. Then, the stone or plate is etched with acid to stabilize the image. After dampening the surface with water, printing ink adheres only on the image area. When the matrix is run through a press with a sheet of paper, the inked surface is transferred.
The fluid, spontaneous strokes that appear in lithography because of the grain of stones or aluminum plates.
To the printer, it's more than a respected printing technique. Beyond technique, the successful work of art is a fortuitous marriage of idea, image, and process.

My work is mostly representational. Some of my work is abstract, such as images of floating lights in silent space, a frozen landscape, or the view beyond window with rain drops.
Either abstract or representational, I aim to depict the atmosphere of the confined space focusing on naturally composed and naturally existing object.
This is important to me as an artist because...

982-1984 Water color at The Setsu Mode Seminar, Tokyo

1984-1991 The figure sculpture at New York Academy of Art, New York

1991-1998 The graphic art at The Art Students League of New York, New York

2021- Kyoto University of the Arts, Japanese painting department, Kyoto, Japan

Solo Exhibition

2021 Rou- KOHBUNDO, Obihiro - Rica Bando Exhibition - Baku-Inn

2020 Osaka Takashimaya Gallry NEXT - Rica Bando Exhibition

2019 Shibata Etsuko Gallery, Tokyo - Resonating colors of Sumi

2018 FLOWMOTION Cafe Gallery, Obihiro - Rica Bando Exhibition - Color of Sumi Ink

2017 Shibata Etsuko Gallery, Tokyo - Deep in the Puddle

2015 FLOWMOTION Cafe Gallery, Obihiro - Rica Bando Exhibition Small works

2015 Shibata Etsuko Gallery, Tokyo - The still of Water

2012 Takasdhimaya Gallery Shinjuku Branch, Tokyo - Rica Bando exhibition

2012 Takashimaya Gallery Tokyo Branch, Tokyo - Rica Bando Exhibition,

2010 Shibata Etsuko Gallery, Tokyo - Uchikura Hitomi / Bando Rica Exhibition

2010 Kohbundo Gallery, Obihiro Japan - Two women Exhibition

2009 Shibata Etsuko Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - Rica Bando Exhibition - Shadows of color

2007 Shibata Etsuko Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - Rica Bando Exhibition - Light Petals

2006 Rica Bando Solo Exhibition - Khoubundo Gallery, Obihiro, Japan

2005 Isezakimall Koichi, Yokohama, Japan - Rica Bando Solo Exhibition

2004 Shibata Etsuko Galle...