Jerry T. Okimoto
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Jerry T. Okimoto (1924 – 1998) was a Japanese-American artist who was born in Waianae, Hawaii. He is best known for his works consisting of several solidly colored, geometrically shaped pieces of stretched canvas fitted together to form a single work. In some of these works, the individual stretched canvases are moveable and are intended to be rearranged. Since many of these works are essentially two-dimensional, they challenge the distinction between painting and sculpture.
The Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Michelson Museum of Art (Marshall, Texas), the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, Michigan), 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.
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- Baur, John I. H., Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974.
