Biography from AskART:
| Post War California artist, Thomas Frank Akawie studied at Los Angeles City College, 1953-1956; Olympic Art Guild, Los Angeles, 1955-1956; and the University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1959, M.A., 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, 1965; San Francisco Art Institute, 1968; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1971.
Selected Group Exhibitions: San Francisco Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era 1976.
Public Collections: The Oakland Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Literature: Henry Hopkins, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era; Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Painting and Sculpture Collection; The Art of California, Selected Works from the Collection of The Oakland Museum.
Source:
David J Carlson, Carlson Gallery, California. Carlson's specialty is Post-World War II California artists, and he is preparing a catalogue for a 2004 traveling exhibition of these artists to several California museums.
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Born in New York City, Thomas Akawie studied at Los Angeles City College from 1953 to 1956. In 1959, he earned a BA in Art History from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught art at various universities in California and worked in abstractions of rigidly symmetric forms. "Initially inspired by floor plans of historic European cathedrals, (they) were set in etherealized fields that implied vast spaces; meticulously airbrushed, they suggested both precision machine parts and primitively stylized figures, and were frequently exhibited with the work of the Visionaries." He later turned to landscapes- Magic Realist deserts and skies, also airbrushed. In the 1970s he emphasized more conventional Photo Realist subjects.
Source:
Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980
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