Photographer unknown Biography Selected Publications film / videos Periodicals / newspapers Books / Catalogues Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest abstract artists. Gifted with prodigious drive and vision, she combined inspirations from her own cultural background with currents from contemporary painting and sculpture, arriving at […]
–Though she is being given some special attention during a celebration month honoring women and that is quite valid, I have always thought of her as a great artist and didn’t need to know her gender. At the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA) near where I used to live, there were three of her extraordinary pieces right by the CAFE, thus serving food of the soul as well as a mean salad inside. She had a way of using simplicity of form and surface in a way that was deeply expressive.
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