Jerry Okimoto (American, 1924 - )

Working in raw wood with only basic hand tools, Jerry Okimoto, a Japanese-American sculptor who is artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, turns out large-scale vase and bowl forms, and labyrinthine wall pieces in which plays of light and shade are created by surfaces of varying relief. The bowls are made of highly polished laminated strips, occurring in different natural shapes, and in some the surface is broken at various intervals by bands of openwork. They are very handsome, contemplative objects that don't entirely escape a certain decorative effect.