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This is the first solo exhibition to examine the work of Hawaiian-born artist Tetsuo Ochikubo in almost 50 years, and the only one to focus exclusively on his printmaking. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship to work in lithography (1959) and an early Tamarind Institute artist fellow (1961), Ochikubo was among a select group of painters and sculptors who pioneered the art of lithography in American Post-War abstraction. Through over two dozen prints and previously unexhibited documents, this exhibition looks at printmaking as a central site of Ochikubo’s extensive artistic experimentation.

Ochikubo’s earliest prints were made when he worked as a designer for silk-screened Hawaiian textiles at Alfred Shaheen’s Surf ’n Sand Hand Prints. His role as the supervisor of the Graphics Workshop at the Art Students League of New York from 1960–61, and his use of lithography as a means of promoting his exhibitions at New York’s Krasner Gallery between 1958–1967, show him investigating lithography in the fine art context. Later in his life lithography was a key component of Ochikubo’s pedagogy as a professor of Fine Art at Syracuse University and the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Although he was better known as a painter and sculptor, Ochikubo was never far from a printing press until his untimely death in 1975.