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Dear Friends and Art Patrons: For the past eight years, I have brought unique Japanese contemporary art and artists to the Washington metropolitan area, often their first exhibit in America. However, at the end of this year, I will be closing my gallery in Georgetown. As an art dealer and avid collector, I will still travel the world to search for exciting and unique works as well as attending other art venues to enhance my horizon. Celebrating my twentieth year in the business, I will continue to remain as a private art dealer based in Washington. For the future activities, please visit my web site www.galleryokuda.com. Thank you for your kind encouragement and patronage during my years of gallery operation. Sincerely yours, 12/28/2002 Director, Teruko
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Gallery
Okuda International’s objective is two-fold. On a
local level, the gallery is dedicated to introducing D.C.
arts patrons to works that are strongly influenced by
eastern traditions and culture. Accordingly, the gallery has
made a concerted effort to exhibit Asian artists who are
both active on the local art scene; and who have made a name
for themselves abroad but are unknown in the states. Recent
artists exhibited have included Goro Sugita, Mitsuko Tabe,
Taro Kaneko, Ikuko K. Burns, Yuji Hiratsuka, Kuyohiko and
Fumiko Sugisaki, Mitsuko Mitsuyasu, Hiro, and others.
Internationally,
the gallery has made it possible for American artists, like
Mary Anne Reilly and Collin Wiltshire to exhibit in Japan
and reach an audience that was, to them, previously unknown.
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Teruko Okuda, Director
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Since
opening Gallery Okuda International, in April of 1995,
Teruko Okuda has been introducing artists — established
in their own countries — to audiences from the other
side of the globe, Teruko Okuda hopes forge a better
understanding between the two cultures she considers her
own. This belief in cross-cultural awareness has led Teruko
Okuda to dedicate the last 16 years of her life, to
developing relationships with artists and clientele from
both hemispheres.
Teruko
Okuda began her career in the arts after moving to the
United States with her husband and young son in 1977. Born
of a prestigious Japanese family (her late father, Michio
Murayama, was the long-time governor of the Yamagata
Prefecture and later held a seat in the Japanese Congress)
she had studied English literature at Aoyama Gakuin
University and served as the personal assistant for a
Japanese Senator. Her move to the United States, however,
brought great change to her life and she found herself
increasingly intrigued by the world of art. Thus, in 1982,
she acquired a position at one of the best known galleries
in Washington, D.C. and began learning the intricacies of
gallery operations.
After
spending five years under the tutelage of Mrs. Miriam Fisher
Reno of Fisher Galleries, Teruko Okuda decided it was time
to branch out on her own and established an art-consulting
firm. Traveling between Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles she
began buying major works of art by such American artists as
Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Andrew Weiss, Sam Francis and
Helen Frankenthaler for corporations, galleries and private
collectors in Japan.
In
1995, Teruko Okuda opened Gallery Okuda
International. Her clientele included the Tokyo Electric and
Power Co., Mitsubishi Co., Hitachi Ltd., Fuji Bank Ltd., All
Nippon Airways (of Washington, D.C.), and Mitsubishi Trust
and Banking in New York and Tokyo, and Palace Hotel Ltd.,
(Tokyo and Guam). To this day, Gallery Okuda International
is the only gallery in the D.C. metropolitan area owned by a
Japanese woman.
GALLERY OKUDA INTERNATIONAL
E-mail: okudaint@bellatlantic.net
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