Makoto Ouchi Art

Makoto Ouchi was born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, in Japan and entered the Independent Artist's Association in 1957. His first solo show took place in 1958 at the Japan Club, in New York. Ouchi later won the Yamamoto Kanae Prize from the Japan Print Association in 1968 and was later elected twice as secretary-general of that association. He combined etching with the use of paper blocks for printing the flat color areas. This contrasted with the embossed sections, where the printing press hollowed out the etched areas. Ouchi's prints are in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, Cincinnati Art Museum and the Library of Congress.