Frank Okada

Frank Okada (1931–2000) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, mainly responsive in the Pacific Northwest. His era style often featured brightly colored, off-kilter geometric shapes over and done with in large format, including round canvasses; subtly enhance brushwork suggested the involve of both customary Asian art and the "mystics" of the Northwest School. His later action at epoch used symbolic shapes which more directly evoked his Nisei line and the years he spent in detention camps in the impression of his family during World War II.

He taught art at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon from 1969 to 1999.