About six weeks after this profile was published, Seattle visual arts great Akio Takamori passed away. His work lives on however, and can be seen in an exhibit that is on display at James Harris Gallery through April 1.
Akio Takamori’s doctor says the chemo isn’t working and the cancer is untreatable. The last time we spoke, the Seattle artist was feverishly making work about what it means to apologize while also facing the realization that the last American president of his lifetime would be a man who never apologizes for anything.
Late in the election, Takamori had begun to narrow in on a specific visual spectacle of our presidential politics: the isolated heads of the two nominees as they debated each other on TV. They were seen in boxes set side by side, so viewers could watch one react while the other spoke.
