Medium: Mezzotint
Dimensions: 4 1/2 x 12 inches (plate) 11 1/2 x 15 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1950
Edition: of 25

Recommended by Rebecca (Gallery Manager):
"I have always appreciated how Hiroshima can capture the personalities and unique characters of his animals. In this piece, the bright eyes and open mouth of the fish make it seem alive and alert. The artist is also excellent with the color mezzotint technique. Here the dark blues and reds of the water tells the viewer that the fish is swimming deep in the river. The color gradients in the water and the fish's belly are incredibly smooth and natural."

Medium: Oil painting on handmade Mitsumata paper
Dimensions: 13 x 18 inches (image / sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1950
Date finished: 2016

Recommended by Paige (Collections Manager / Marketing Coordinator):

Lately, I have been reflecting on art's place in the face of tragedy, of war, and of suffering. This piece, 'For Fukushima - Hannya-shingyo II', has always struck me visually, but it has captured my mind especially in this context. Hiroshima beautifully understands art as remembrance, art as witness, art as prayer. The artist's hands are felt in the texture of the handmade paper, in each layer of color applied, in each stroke of calligraphy. The language speaks of wisdom and in deep red, it is powerful but not forceful. The mountains are dark but they touch a bright sky. This piece naturally inspires honest reflection.

Medium: Archival pigment print
Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (Image) 11 x 8 1/2 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American
Date finished: 2015
Edition: of 25

©2015 Barbara Noah, all rights reserved, on changes and additions to the original, pre-edited Saturn background image courtesy NASA, JPL, Space Science Institute. Ringed marble moons as absurd possible future “homes” around Saturn.

Medium: Archival pigment print
Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 20 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American
Date finished: 2018
Edition: of 25

©2018 Barbara Noah, all rights reserved, on changes and additions to the original, pre-edited “blue marble” Earth image courtesy of NASA. A rotating duet between a marble “planet” and the “Blue Marble,” Earth, together forming eyes or glasses. An asteroid strike or a possible past flip or reversal of Earth’s poles and magnetic field may have caused catastrophic climate change and mass species extinctions.

Medium: Archival pigment print
Dimensions: 5 x 5 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American
Date finished: 2019
Edition: of 25

©2019 Barbara Noah, all rights reserved, on changes and additions to the original, pre-edited solar coronal loop background image courtesy of Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA. As a metaphor for global warming, a crisp, fresh sky paper plane flies perilously close to the sun, like Icarus.

Medium: Archival pigment print
Dimensions: 6 7/10 x 5 4/5 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American
Date finished: 2019
Edition: of 25

©2019 Barbara Noah, all rights reserved, on changes and additions to the original, pre-edited supernova remnant background image courtesy of NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and NASA/CXC/SAO, J Hughes. A party balloon breathing out and on the hunt for a new home, enters SNR 0509, a supernova remnant.

Medium: Archival pigment print
Dimensions: 16 x 16 5/8 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American
Date finished: 2019
Edition: of 25

©2019 Barbara Noah, all rights reserved, on changes and additions to the original, pre-edited Jupiter image courtesy of NASA, ESA: Mars courtesy of USGS Astrogeology Science Center: Saturn courtesy of NASA, JPL, Caltech, Space Science Institute; and Earth image courtesy of NASA, image by Norman Kuring, NASA’s Ocean Biology Processing Group using Suomi NPP data. Fellow planets (Jupiter, Mars, Saturn), in syzygy (lined up), hover as a guardian angel ozone molecule (O3) in the form of a snowman, as part of the protective ozone layer around the Earth.

Medium: Archival pigment print
Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American
Date finished: 2019
Edition: of 25

©2019 Barbara Noah, all rights reserved, on changes and additions to the original, pre-edited Earth background image courtesy of Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center. Marble moons in the form of a snowman as well, as the ozone molecule (O3), which is part of the protective ozone layer around the “Blue Marble” (the Earth).

Medium: Archival pigment print
Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 21 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American
Date finished: 2019
Edition: of 25

©2019 Barbara Noah, all rights reserved, on changes and additions to the original, pre-edited Mars background image courtesy of NASA/JPL/Cornell. A twisty animal balloon octopus holds its breath and nears touchdown as it searches for a new home, looking for water on the red planet of Mars. The game Red Rover is also called octopus tag.

Medium: Archival pigment print
Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American
Date finished: 2019
Edition: of 25

©2019 Barbara Noah, all rights reserved, on changes and additions to the original, pre-edited Earth background image courtesy of NASA/GSFC/NETI/ERSDAC/JAROS/US Japan ASTER Team. Juggle clubs hover over the Florida Keys in a circus-like prelude to climate catastrophe.