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Akio Takamori died of cancer on Wednesday night. As Jen Graves mentioned in a recent profile, in November Takamori’s doctor told him that the chemo wasn’t working and that his cancer was untreatable.
The Japanese-born artist exhibited all over the world, but he kept his studio in Seattle. He’d been a professor of art at the University of Washington since 1993, and had received numerous national awards for his work. He’s survived by his wife, Vicky, and two grown children, Peter and Lena.
Jen Graves wrote extensively about Takamori’s work. Revisit Teacher at James Harris, where he created sculptures based on photographs, and then transformed those sculptures back into photographs. His sculptural translation of the photographs and his photographic translation of the sculptures revealed the ways different media “see” the same image.
A sculpture and photo from TeacherCOURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JAMES HARRIS GALLERY
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Dawn is here, and I count 135 artwork submissions for our 3rd Annual Big League Art Show! Paintings, mixed media, collage, photography, vitreography, monotypes, woodblocks, drawings, and more. We’re a diverse group! Join us for the Big League show reception May 4, 12:00-6:00 – with Inscape’s Open House Artwork on display May & June Leaguers …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9378″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Preparing for my mini workshop “Paint like Cezanne,” I ran across this work by Joel Meyerowitz, a photographer who documented still life objects of famous painters, particularly Cezanne and Morandi. Meyerowitz’ photographs are handsome recordings of plain yet interesting objects. Unlike the painters who assemble compositions, Meyerowitz framed each …
Akio Takamori
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Akio Takamori’s Sleepers
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Seattle Artist Akio Takamori Has Died
Akio Takamori died of cancer on Wednesday night. As Jen Graves mentioned in a recent profile, in November Takamori’s doctor told him that the chemo wasn’t working and that his cancer was untreatable.
The Japanese-born artist exhibited all over the world, but he kept his studio in Seattle. He’d been a professor of art at the University of Washington since 1993, and had received numerous national awards for his work. He’s survived by his wife, Vicky, and two grown children, Peter and Lena.
Jen Graves wrote extensively about Takamori’s work. Revisit Teacher at James Harris, where he created sculptures based on photographs, and then transformed those sculptures back into photographs. His sculptural translation of the photographs and his photographic translation of the sculptures revealed the ways different media “see” the same image.
He used as the subject of his ceramics that one thing you’re not supposed to talk about.
Takamori’s Apology series premiers February 16 at James Harris.
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