Harry Ohta
Harry Ohta is a Japanese artist who has split time living in Los Angeles and Santa Fe since 1970. Ohta uses acrylics on canvas to create images of the American Southwest and South Bay area of Los Angeles focusing on man’s intrusion on nature. Influenced by David Hockney and Edward Hopper, his style is figurative with a strong sense of composition and design. Ohta is interested in the possibilities of multiple perspectives on the same object. His works have been described as “spare and finely calculated renderings that reflect an edited vision of modern American life.” Born in 1949 in Yokohama, Japan, Ohta studied economics at Sophia University in Tokyo, Woodbury University, and UCLA. A lifelong painter, he learned painting techniques under Franklin Leigal at Otis Parsons in Los Angeles. Ohta has dedicated himself to making art at his studio in Torrance, CA.