Kikuo Saito

Kikuo Saito (斉藤規矩夫, Saitō Kikuo, 1939–2016) was a Japanese-born American abstract painter taking into consideration ties to the Color Field action and Lyrical abstraction. A former co-conspirator to Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, and Larry Poons, Saito's take action infuses in abundance saturated colorscapes considering delicately drawn lines. Saito was the creator of sui generis theatre and dance events, collaborating with objector directors and choreographers Robert Wilson, Peter Brook, Jerome Robbins, and dancer and choreographer Eva Maier, to whom he was married for several decades. His productions amass wordless stand-in in the poetic frameworks of light, costumes, music, and dance, most of which he devised and directed himself.