Jerry T. Okimoto (Jerry Tsukio Okamoto, 1924–1998) was a Japanese-American painter and sculptor who was born in

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Double image

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. He also created non-moveable minimalist sculptures (such as laminated white pine and plywood sculpture in the

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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

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, a group of seven Asian-American artists with ties to

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. The

, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the

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(Marshall, Texas), the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, Michigan), and the

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(New York City) are among the public collections holding work by Jerry Okimoto. Jerry Okimoto died in 1998.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Okimoto, Jerry 1924 births 1998 deaths Artists from Hawaii People from the Territory of Hawaii American modern sculptors American artists of Japanese descent People from Oahu 20th-century Japanese sculptors 20th-century American sculptors