A prolific painter of abstract colorfields, he wanted his paintings to be physically and spiritually "reflective".
Okada was a second-generation Japanese who lived most of his life in the Pacific Northwest. Born in Seattle in 1931, he received a BFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, and then earned a Whitney Fellowship in 1957, a Fulbright Fellowship in 1959, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967. He was Professor of Art at the University of Oregon from 1969 to 1 (showing 500 of 742 characters). |
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