Ryo Tokita
Ryo Tokita is a Japanese born artist who emigrated to the United States in 1969 settling in the town of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania outside Nazareth. known for his op art and color field pieces, Tokita, has also produced series of Japanese influenced works. Recently the subject of a retrospective at Lafayette College's Williams Center in Easton, Pennsylvania his work has also been introduced into the permanent collection of and is currently on view at the Allentown Art Museum. In the nineteen sixties he was one of the 46 artists exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art's International Council's traveling exhibition named The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture and in 1985 was one of nine regrouped for Modern Japanese Abstracts at the Firehouse Gallery of Nassau Community College in Garden City, Long Island.