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

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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

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. In some of these works, the individual stretched canvases are moveable and are intended to be rearranged. He also created non-moveable

sculptures (such as laminated white pine and plywood sculpture in the Hawaii State Art Museum). Along with

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, Edmund Chung, Tetsuo Ochikubo, James Park, and

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, Okimoto was a member of the Metcalf Chateau, a group of seven Asian-American artists with ties to

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. The Hawaii State Art Museum, the

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, the

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(Marshall, Texas), the

University of Michigan Museum of Art The University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan with is one of the largest university art museums in the United States. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alumni Memorial Hall ori ...

(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