![]() ![]() ![]() Tomie Ohtake works have been extensively exhibited worldwide. Ohtake began to experiment with various printmaking methods during the 1970s and, beginning in the late 1980s, undertook large-scale sculptural projects and public works in São Paulo and neighboring cities. Having worked until very late in life, Tomie Ohtake passed away in 2015, when she was 101 years old. In 1957, invited by critic Mário Pedrosa, she presented her first solo exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna in São Paulo, which was followed by her participation in the São Paulo Biennial in 1961. ![]() In this phase, she performed a series of paintings which became known as B lind Paintings, where she would blindfold herself in experiments that challenged the ideas which grounded the Brazilian Neo-concrete movement, also bringing sensibility and intuition to the fore of her practice. In the late 1950s, when she left behind an initial phase of figurative studies in painting, she immersed herself in abstract explorations. ![]() Her career as an artist began at the age of 37, when she became a member of the Seibi group, which brought together artists of Japanese descent. 2015, São Paulo, Brazil) moved to Brazil in 1936. One of the main representatives of abstract art in Brazil, Tomie Ohtake (b. ![]()
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