IV Playlist: The Hidden Track

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

> "The pictoral style reminded Doc of labels on fruit and vegetable  
> crates
> when he was a kid." (Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice, p. 343)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiykTknz51U
>
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> kfl

My favorite art instructor. Taught photo-realist techniques:

http://www.bensakoguchi.com/series_orange_crate_label.php

http://www.bensakoguchi.com/larger/orange_group11_larger4.php

http://www.bensakoguchi.com/larger/orange_group11_larger3.php

http://www.bensakoguchi.com/larger/orange_group11_larger11.php

http://www.bensakoguchi.com/

	Ben Sakoguchi was born in 1938, in San Bernardino California.
	During World War II, his family was incarcerated by the United
	States government because of their Japanese ancestry, so he
	spent his early childhood in an internment camp at Poston,
	Arizona.  After the war, the Sakoguchis returned to San
	Bernardino, and with considerable difficulty, reopened their
	small grocery business.  Ben attended public schools, including
	San Bernardino Valley College.

	Moving to Los Angeles and UCLA, Sakoguchi earned a
	Bachelor of Arts degree, teaching credential, and in 1964 a
	Master of Fine Arts degree.  He stayed in the Los Angeles area,
	accepting a teaching position at Pasadena City College, where
	he was on the Art Department faculty until his 1997 retirement.

	In four decades as a professional artist, Sakoguchi has shown
	his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions, primarily at
	schools, museums, and other non-profit venues within the
	United States.  He has been awarded two National Endowment
	for the Arts fellowships, and in 1997 participated in the Lila
	Wallace-Reader's Digest Artists at Giverny Program.  More
	recently, he was among the recipients of Flintridge Foundation
	Awards for Visual Artists for 2005-2006.

http://www.bensakoguchi.com/about.php