Jerry T. Okimoto
Jerry T. Okimoto (Jerry Tsukio Okamoto, 1924–1998)[1] was a Japanese-American painter and sculptor who was born in Waianae, Hawaii.
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Okimoto is best known for his minimalist works consisting of several solid colored, geometrically shaped pieces of stretched canvas fitted together to form a single work. Since these works are essentially two-dimensional, they challenge the distinction between painting and sculpture. Double Image further challenges this distinction, in that it is totally abstract, but strongly suggests a vanishing point. In some of these works, the individual stretched canvases are moveable and are intended to be rearranged.[2] He also created non-moveable minimalist sculptures (such as laminated white pine and plywood sculpture in the Hawaii State Art Museum).
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Along with Satoru Abe, Bumpei Akaji, Edmund Chung, Tetsuo Ochikubo, James Park, and Tadashi Sato, Okimoto was a member of the Metcalf Chateau, a group of seven Asian-American artists with ties to Honolulu.[3]
The Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Michelson Museum of Art (Marshall, Texas), the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, Michigan),[4] and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) are among the public collections holding work by Jerry Okimoto. Jerry Okimoto died in 1998.
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ David Rumsey. "Study #3". Cartography Associates. AKAG.K1958:14. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ "Study #3". Leiden University Library. TN_luna_amiAMICO~1~1~8296~93697. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ Matsumoto, Lacy (July 28, 2008). "Hawaii artist honors late friend with exhibition - Satoru Abe to show his work alongside pieces by Jerry Okimoto at Nu'uanu Gallery". Honolulu Advertiser. p. D1.
- ^ "Exchange|Search: artist:"Jerry Okimoto"". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
References[edit]
- Baur, John I. H. (1974). Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. OCLC 646297717.
- Morse, Marcia (2001). Legacy: Facets of Island Modernism. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts. pp. 70–75. ISBN 978-0-937426-48-7. OCLC 50993176.