Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transportive paintings defied ideas about abstract art.

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They involve multiple coats of paint ... landscape-like, in bright, Leroy Nieman-esque shades of blue, green, pink, and beige. Some of the color works suggest surrealism, others abstract ...