Pull: Contemporary Mokuhanga

In printmaking, to “pull” a print is to bring an image into being—lifting paper from block to reveal the result of pressure, pigment, and touch. This exhibition takes that moment as both method and metaphor, tracing mokuhanga 木版画—literally “woodblock printing” (moku = wood, hanga = print)—across a century of practice, from early 20th-century Japan to contemporary global experimentation.

Rather than a fixed tradition, mokuhanga is presented here as an evolving practice—shaped by repetition, variation, and exchange. Each impression carries both history and possibility, inviting us to consider what it means to make—and remake—images through wood and water. 

Pull features 20 woodblock prints from the Spencer's collection and is organized in conjunction with the 2027 International Mokuhanga Association Conference.