Drue Kataoka
{{short description|Japanese-born American artist, writer, pundit}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Drue Kataoka
| image = Drue Kataoka - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011.jpg
| caption = Drue Kataoka (January 2011)
| birth_date = c. {{Birth year and age|1978}}
| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan
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| alma_mater = Stanford University
| known_for = art, political commentary
}}
Drue Kataoka (born {{Circa|1978}}){{Cite news |date=August 15, 1998 |title=The Collectors: More than just painting a pretty picture |pages=25 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-the-collector/132045545/ |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=September 25, 1997 |title=East Meets West |pages=23 |work=Oakland Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune-east-meets-west/132045771/ |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com}} is a Japanese American visual artist and political commentator. She is known for her Sumi-e art and interest in technology. In 2012, Kataoka was chosen as the Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos. She is based in Silicon Valley, California.
Early life and education
Kataoka was born {{Circa|1978}} in Tokyo, Japan and lived there until age 5.{{Cite web|last=Harrington|first=Jim|date=1997-12-12|title=True to tradition|url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/cover/1997_Dec_12.ARTS12.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040123173213/http://www.paloaltoonline.com:80/weekly/morgue/cover/1997_Dec_12.ARTS12.html |archive-date=2004-01-23 |access-date=2020-07-07|website=PaloAltoOnline.com}} Her family moved to Washington D.C., then onto Seattle, and later to Menlo Park, California. Her father Tetsuya Kataoka is a political scientist, and research fellow at Hoover Institution, and her mother Barbara Kataoka (née Slavin) worked in the communications department at Stanford University. She attended high school at Sacred Heart Preparatory a private school in Atherton, California, and graduated from high school in 1996.{{Cite web|last=Gulker|first=Linda Hubbard|title=Spotted: Portola Valley artist Drue Kataoka proclaiming "Now Is the Time" at Hillary fundraiser — InMenlo|url=https://inmenlo.com/2016/08/24/spotted-portola-valley-artist-drue-kataoka-proclaiming-now-is-the-time-at-hillary-fundraiser/|access-date=2020-07-07|website=InMenlo.com|date=25 August 2016 |language=en-US}}
Kataoka attended college at Stanford University, where she majored in Art History and graduated in 2000.{{Cite web|last=Knight|first=Heather|date=2002-10-11|title=An Image Inspiring|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/An-Image-Inspiring-2763392.php|access-date=2020-07-07|website=SFGate}}{{Cite web|last=Ingalls|first=Zoe|date=1999-11-19|title=Grace and Explosiveness, in as Few Strokes as Possible|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/GraceExplosiveness-in-as/22963|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707125136/https://www.chronicle.com/article/GraceExplosiveness-in-as/22963 |archive-date=2020-07-07 |access-date=2020-07-07|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education}} She participated in Stanford Jazz Band, where she played the flute. She began her art education in Sumi-e early in Japan and later in the US, earning her han (signature stamp) from sensei, M. Iseke.{{When|date=July 2020}}{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} By age 19, she was considered a master of Sumi-e.
Art career
Kataoka's art work spans various materials and practices including brainwave installations, sculptural works such as her "magic boxes" and "membranes," sumi-e brush work art, and paintings.{{Cite web|last=Kane|first=Karla|date=2017-07-12|title=Artscene: Portola Valley's Drue Kataoka on the VR revolution|url=https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2017/07/12/local-artist-global-impact|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713100748/https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2017/07/12/local-artist-global-impact |archive-date=2017-07-13 |access-date=2020-07-07|website=The Almanac News|language=en}}
Kataoka's early works were in the canon of Sumi-e. However, early on she started experimenting with depicting modern subject matter such as sports, dance, jazz, public figures.{{When|date=July 2020}} Wynton Marsalis commissioned her to create a suite of album art for his Sony Columbia record, A Fiddler’s Tale. While at Stanford University, she completed 27 commemorative prints including the official print for the 100th anniversary of the Stanford University-California Big Game, the print for President Gerhard Casper's retirement gift, and the millennial portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}
Her commemorative prints are archived in the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. Her painting of the Hoover carillon, I Ring for Peace, is permanently installed at the Hoover Institution.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}
In January 2013, Kataoka unveiled a brainwave-smart glass installation in Davos.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2013/01/on-the-art-of-digital/|title=How Art Can Bridge the Digital 'Divide'|magazine=WIRED|access-date=2018-10-31|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2013-01-23|title=Let's All Argue About Digital Art|url=https://hyperallergic.com/63985/lets-all-argue-about-digital-art/|access-date=2020-07-07|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}} She also created a conceptual piece up (2008) which incorporated Special Relativistic effects.{{Cite web|title=Drue's Art in the First In-Space Art Exhibit on Richard Garriott's Space Mission|url=http://www.valleyzen.com/2008/10/17/drues-art-in-the-first-in-space-art-exhibit-on-richard-garriotts-space-mission/|access-date=2020-07-07|website=www.valleyzen.com}} Up was sent into space for the first Zero Gravity Art Exhibit at the International Space Station.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2013/12/what-getty-google-others-just-did-that-will-make-us-more-creative-than-ever/|title=The Getty and Google Unleash Free Art — And Your Creative Potential|magazine=WIRED|access-date=2018-10-31|language=en-US}} She has developed techniques such as Magic Boxes and Shattered Mirrors to merge the art, its surroundings and the viewer in an artistic continuum.
Kataoka has written political commentary for CNBC in 2016.{{Cite web|last=Kataoka|first=Drue|date=2016-11-08|title=Hillary Clinton president women election—commentary|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/08/hillary-clinton-president-women-election-commentary.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109233651/http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/08/hillary-clinton-president-women-election-commentary.html |archive-date=2016-11-09 |access-date=2020-07-07|website=www.cnbc.com}}
References
External links
- [http://www.drue.net Official site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120129164709/http://forumblog.org/2012/01/drue-kataoka/ Kataoka's exhibit at The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 2012]
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