Miyoko Ito (April 27, 1918–August 18, 1983) was an American artist known for her watercolor and abstract oil paintings and prints. [1][2][3] Ito was part of an informal group of like-minded, but visually diverse Chicago painters, self-named the "Allusive Abstractionists" and formed in 1981.

Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Miyoko Ito , the next exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. The exhibition includes sixteen paintings and three rarely seen lithographs from 1948 to 1983, spanning the entirety of the artist’s nearly four-decade career.

May 26, 2021 · Miyoko Ito’s life was full of tumult, roiled by an earthquake, internment, health issues, and a bizarre coda, but you might not guess it from her quiet artwork. At a time when Chicago art was focused on figuration, she embraced cool, controlled abstraction.

Miyoko Ito Mistress of the Sewing Machine, 1951 Miyoko Ito Revolt in the Desert, 1963 Miyoko Ito Untitled (Boy in Tree), 1949 Miyoko Ito A Tree in the Window, 1950 Miyoko Ito Spinoza and Migo, 1949 Miyoko Ito Untitled (Etching Press), 1949 Miyoko Ito Objects in the Nursery, 1950 Miyoko Ito Jimmy’s Pot Shop, 1949 Miyoko Ito Untitled, n.d ...

Miyoko Ito was an American painter known for her nuanced abstractions. Often composed of biomorphic forms that allude to objects, Ito’s glowing paintings balance rich tones with muted gradations.

Miyoko Ito (27 April 1918-1983) was a Chicago artist known for her watercolor and abstract oil paintings and prints. Though tangentially involved with the Chicago Imagists, her style diverged and synthesized cubism and surrealism.

Miyoko Ito, Mistress of the Sewing Machine, lithograph, 1949. Her first daughter, Elissa, was born in 1949, the same year as her first solo exhibition at the Palmer House Galleries in Chicago.

Miyoko Ito (1918–83) was a watercolor and abstract oil painter and printmaking artist who was born in Berkeley, California on April 27, 1918. Her father immigrated to the United States when he was just ten years old and was taken in by a church in Vallejo, where he worked as a houseboy.

Emiko Omori’s poetic documentary brings to first light the courageous acts of protest and even rebellion that marked the Japanese internment during World War II. The enigmatic paintings of Miyoko Ito (1918–1983) are little known beyond Chicago, …

Miyoko Ito’s paintings feature rich surfaces and evocative colors characterized by many layers of paint meticulously built-up with individual brushstrokes. Working on one canvas at a time, her technical precision was reflected in her slow working process.