Tubac Center of the Arts (TCA) announces artist Jiro Okura’s last public showing of his work. Featuring wood sculptures and sumi ink drawings, Okura’s work has a timeless and international appeal. Other examples of his work are part of the permanent collection of major art museums throughout the U.S. including the University of Kansas, the Smithsonian Asian Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and both the Chicago Art Institute and St. Louis Museum of Art.
Curated by Jane M. Farmer, this exhibit showcases Okura’s work in three-dimensional wood art that solidified Okura’s transition from traditional work to a more direct interpretation of his relationship with nature. During his lifetime (1935-1994) he traveled throughout the United Stated but especially responded to what he saw in nature in the Southwest where he absorbed the landscape and scale of these open spaces.
He first traveled to the Southwest in 1969 and always loved this part of the world. Many of the works on display come from the collection of his sister, Taka Okura, a current resident of Green Valley. Learn more at https://tubacarts.org.
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