Experience the artistry of a daring thinker at the Frederick Harris Gallery.
Okabata’s work explores the complex interplay between individual actions and their broader impact, using rabbits to symbolize the gap between innocence and raw power.
“Individual involvement creates good and bad. The outward face, the inside face, success, failure, hope, despair ... However, nothing can start without involvement,” Okabata explains.
Inspired by the world around him and his pursuit of personal growth, his art is in a continual process of transformation.
Okabata holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Osaka University of Arts and has exhibited at the Ikebana Sofu-kai Art Exhibition in Tokyo, the Contemporary Ikebana and Art Exhibition in New York and received recognition at the 2007 Adobe Cube Awards.
Artworks are available for purchase through Member Services.
Moment I realized I wanted to become an artist.
I realized that I wanted to draw freely after taking on a job in graphic arts in 2003.
What I would tell my 20-year-old self.
Go for what you want to do most.
My perfect creative environment.
A place with an atelier and where I can always create my world.
Artist, living or dead, I’d most like to share a meal with.
Ben Shahn, Jean Dubuffet and Bernard Buffet.
Gallery Exhibition
