Contemporary Prints from Tokyo

What’s going on with printmaking in the world’s largest metropolis? This modest but wide-ranging show offers a glimpse—some thirty works from nine artists—of the current scene where populist ukiyo-e prints first blossomed in the sixteenth century. On the prominent end are works by Tesuya Noda, one of Japan’s best-known printmakers, including a selection from his “Diary” series (a still life from Israel casually pictures a string of bullets alongside a robe, mattress, and pair of shoes), while Miki Kato’s color intaglio prints, incorporating animals and old-fashioned wallpaper and doily patterns, have a more of-the-moment hipster appeal. Kato curated the exhibit with Tyler Starr, an American expat in Tokyo, whose color woodcuts are included, alongside images of tourist sites obliterated by imagined disasters, as rendered by lithographer Hisaharu Motoda. 2638 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-871-1326; www.highpointprintmaking.org