"California's Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History"

Capturing the beauty of the California coast through exquisite woodcut prints and prose, “California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History” is a new traveling exhibition on display at the Grace Hudson Museum.

The exhibition features artist Tom Killion’s Japanese-style woodcut prints, which vividly portray the coast’s ever-changing moods and diverse formations. From Mendocino to Santa Monica, Killion’s work colorfully captures the meeting of land and sea. To provide context for his work, also on view are select traditional Japanese woodblock prints by renowned printmaker Hiroshige, whose style influenced Killion.

Further deepening the experience are complementary writings by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, carefully chosen to provide a rich history of the coast through poetry and prose. Other stirring perspectives on the California coastline come from Native Californian traditional stories, accounts of travelers, and poems by past and present California writers, including Robinson Jeffers, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, and Jaime de Angulo.