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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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With strong artistic similarities to Alice Neel in figurative portraiture, Aliza Nisenbaum’s large scale angled figures lead the eye across the composition, and her sharp colors stay fresh, not overworked. Like Neel, Nisenbaum paints small areas of contrasting colors of yellow and purple, pink and green, next to each other to show the variety …
This proclamation didn’t stop Chuck Close, who started painting portraits in the 1960s, 10 years after Pollock’s most famous drip paintings, and still during Greenberg’s reign. “I thought, ‘Well then, that field is wide open.’ And why the fuck can’t you make a portrait anyway?” – Chuck Close An informative little video WTF The quotes …
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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