Jerry Tsukio Okimoto

American, 1924-1998

Mobile Painting #17

© Estate of Jerry Tsukio Okimoto

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© Estate of Jerry Tsukio Okimoto

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© Estate of Jerry Tsukio Okimoto

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Estate of Jerry Tsukio Okimoto

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Estate of Jerry Tsukio Okimoto

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

Mobile Painting #17, 1963

Artwork Details

Materials

acrylic on canvas

Measurements

overall: 20 3/4 x 39 1/4 inches (52.7 x 99.69 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1963

Accession ID

K1963:20

Jerry Okimoto sought to challenge the distinction between painting, sculpture, and other traditional modes of artmaking. An exploration of geometric form and three-dimensionality, Mobile Painting #17 also plays with the perception of the viewer. While at first glance this painting appears to be a completely flat, tricolored surface, the blue square in fact sits in a channel in front of the red and yellow squares and can be moved left or right to reconfigure the composition. The artist even created four studies, also in the Albright-Knox's collection, to demonstrate a range of possibilities.

Label from Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, June 30–December 30, 2018