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Akio Takamori Art

Japanese, 1950-2017
Akio Takamori (1950 – January 11, 2017) was a Japanese-American ceramic sculptor and was a faculty member at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Takamori was born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan in 1950 October 11. The son of an obstetrician/gynecologist who ran a clinic, Takamori was exposed to a wide range of people from an early age. At home, his father’s extensive library of both art and medical texts became a fascination for Takamori, who relished everything from Picasso reproductions to anatomical charts. Takamori’s interest in the arts persisted into early adulthood and upon his graduation from the Musashino Art College in 1971, he apprenticed to a master folk potter at Koishiwara, Fukuoka, Kyushu – Koishiwara ware. While learning the craft of industrial ceramics in a factory setting, he saw a traveling exhibition of contemporary ceramic art from Latin America, Canada, and the United States. Blown away by what he describes as the “antiauthoritarian” quality of the work, Takamori began to question his future as an industrial potter. When renowned American ceramist Ken Ferguson visited the pottery, the two had an immediate rapport and Ferguson encouraged Takamori go to the United States and study with him at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1974 Takamori made the move to the United States, receiving his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and later attending Alfred University in New York for his M.F.A. After working as a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, he moved to Seattle, Washington in 1993, where he took his current teaching position as associate professor of the ceramics department. Takamori’s evolution as an artist began as he worked with Ferguson to break free of the constraints of industrial pottery and find new ways to express himself in clay. Since those first years at the Kansas City Art Institute his work has changed greatly, but it has always been figurative, based on the human body and expressive of human emotion and sensuality. In the 1980s, Takamori worked innovatively with the vessel form and its structure, creating flat envelope shaped pots formed from slabs. In the mid-1990s a visit to the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands resulted in a shift from vessels back to an early interest in sculpture and the figure. Takamori created groupings of standing figural sculptures. The figures portray historical characters, contemporary society and rural villagers recalled from the artist's childhood in Japan. Most of Takamori’s work has been strongly influenced by his Japanese heritage. He has translated traditional Japanese prints into three-dimensional porcelain sculptures, he recreated his hometown in Japan from memory using clay, and he has translated Peter Bruegel’s paintings into sculptures of Japanese people. Takamori collaborated with Master Printer Mike Sims, of The Lawrence Lithography Workshop in Kansas City, Missouri, to create a series of prints that combine digital images of his ceramic sculptures with more traditional lithography printing techniques.
(Biography provided by Cerbera Gallery)
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Artist: Akio Takamori
Fruit Tree (Japanese-American, Sculptor, Print Maker, Cultural Identity, Iconic)
By Akio Takamori
Located in Kansas City, MO
Akio Takamori Fruit Tree, 1993 Medium: 4 Color Lithograph Edition: 30 Paper: Rives BFK, White Paper Size: 33.5″ x 15″ Image Size: 29.5″ x 11″ Signed, dated, numbered and inscribed by...
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1990s American Modern Akio Takamori Art

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Honey Thief
By Akio Takamori
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Honey Thief, 2016 Medium: 5 Color Lithograph Edition: 27 Paper: Handmade HMP Waterleaf Paper Size: 24.5″ x 20.5″ (irregular) Image Size: 21.75″ x 13″ (irregular) COA provided On the...
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2010s Contemporary Akio Takamori Art

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Untitled by Akio Takamori
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photo xerox with ink image size - 5 x 6”; frame size - 11 x 12” BIO Akio Takamori (1950 - 2017) was a sculptor, printmaker, and painter who explored human relationships: interperso...
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Secret State Goddess by Akio Takamori
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1980s Contemporary Akio Takamori Art

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FIVE NUDE WOMEN TEAPOT by Akio Takamori
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FIVE NUDE WOMEN TEAPOT (INV# NP3246) Akio Takamori porcelain, glaze, overglaze 8.5 x 6.25 x 3.25 circa 1993 signed Rare! Akio Takamori (1950 - 2017) was a sculptor, printmaker, an...
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1990s Contemporary Akio Takamori Art

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Man and Woman
By Akio Takamori
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Artist: Akio Takamori Title: Man and Woman Date: 1993 Medium: Lithograph, Rives BFK white Dimensions: 29.5 x 11 inches Editions: 30 Akio Takamori’s evo...
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Fuck
By Akio Takamori
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Artist: Akio Takamori Title: Fuck Date: 1996 Medium: 4 Color Lithograph Dimensions: 24.75 x 33.5 inches Editions: 24 Akio Takamori’s evolution as an artist began as he worked with ...
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War
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Artist: Akio Takamori Title: War Date: 2013 Medium: Lithograph and woodblock with chine colle Dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 inches Editions: 36 Akio Takamori’s evolution as an artist beg...
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2010s Akio Takamori Art

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Monkey Business Series
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Artist: Akio Takamori Title: Sitting Monkey, Leaping Monkey, Walking Monkey from Monkey Business Series Date: 2011 Medium: Archival ink jet and hand li...
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Duet
By Akio Takamori
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Artist: Akio Takamori Title: Duet Date: 2008 Medium: Archival ink jet and hand lithography Dimensions: 21.25 x 26.5 inches Editions: 45 Akio Takamori’s evolution as an artist began...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Akio Takamori Art

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Love
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Artist: Akio Takamori Title: Love Date: 2008 Medium: Archival ink jet and hand lithography Dimensions: 24 x 31.5 inches Editions: 45 Akio Takamori’s evolution as an artist began as...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Akio Takamori Art

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Secret State Goddess
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1980s Contemporary Akio Takamori Art

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Cup VIII
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Cup VII
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Cup V
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Artist : Akio Takamori Title : "Cup V" Materials : Porcelain, Glaze Date : 1980-1989 Dimensions : 4x 3.5 x 4 Inches Description : Cup with Face, signed T...
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Cup V
Cup V
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Cup IV
By Akio Takamori
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Artist : Akio Takamori Title : "Cup IV" Materials : Porcelain, Glaze Date : 1980-1989 Dimensions : 4x 3.5 x 4 Inches Description : Cup with Face, signed ...
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Cup IV
Cup IV
H 4 in W 3.5 in D 4 in
Cup III
By Akio Takamori
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Artist : Akio Takamori Title : "Cup III" Materials : Porcelain, Glaze Date : 1980-1989 Dimensions : 4x 3.5 x 4 Inches Description : Cup with Face, signed ...
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Cup III
Cup III
H 4 in W 3.5 in D 4 in
Cup II
By Akio Takamori
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Artist : Akio Takamori Title : "Cup II" Materials : Porcelain, Glaze Date : 1980-1989 Dimensions : 4x 3.5 x 4 Inches Description : Cup with Face, signed Takamori was born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan in 1950 October 11. The son of an obstetrician/gynecologist who ran a clinic, Takamori was exposed to a wide range of people from an early age. At home, his father’s extensive library of both art and medical texts became a fascination for Takamori, who relished everything from Picasso reproductions...
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Cup II
Cup II
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Plate
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Artist : Akio Takamori Title : Plate Materials : Porcelain, Glaze, Luster Date : 1970-1975 Dimensions : 2 x 10.75 x 10.75 Inches Description : Porcelain P...
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