Majio Art

Crows, Red/black Japanese hanafuda gambling card, fertility and silver charms. The worn spot beneath the curved wire asks what’s missing? In this five-piece mixed-media series on wo...

Frog/goddess of transformation is flanked by a single bean believed to carry the souls of ancestors to connect with the past and ensure lineage. In this five-piece mixed-media series on wood...

Triptych Indigo Rain-encaustic, paper, oil paint, fabric, and wire on panel. This unusual piece has antique indigo cloth with wire stapling on wood. The imagery plays with the deep c...

Garments can represent status, power, religious covenants, identity, and self-expression. Garment's nonverbal communication creates our perceptions of gender, age, ethnicity, profess...

Fox with Bees 2025 Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas. The first layer of this reality is a sweet red-haired woman. In the next layer, she looks out from a two-...

Tyme is in another arena than time, for you can borrow it, do it, nick it, mark it, lose it, kill it, take it and make it. It has distance and direction, breadth and texture as it be...

The Tibetan dorje, a ritual object in Tibetan Buddhism, symbolizes indestructibility and irresistibility while a crow peeking out from behind the Japanes...

Small child hovers suspended above a black bird taking flight. In balanced on one side a brass hook frog, on the other side a ritual object suggesting a strategy game of duality unit...

This Diptych Taking Form with a leather-like finish of cold wax with layers of marked tissue paper on wood reflects the theory that all physical form takes place first in consciousne...

Figurative II Series, acrylic paint on canvas, brings forth the spirit world through animals, folklore, myth, and dream. The archetypal figures, aspects of ourselves, reveal layers o...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax to create transparent layers with oil paint over ...

Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Silver Shell, acrylic paint, decorative and handmade paper, collage, and found objects, is in the context of paper dolls. There is a sense of an icon wi...

True Happiness, cold wax- tissue paper, found object, and oil stick over acrylic paint on canvas, 2025. A child stands as a shaman in his understanding of what creates true happiness...

In Japan, the fox or kitsune, even in modern day, is a disorienting shape-shifter who causes one to lose their way. A comment in downtown Kyoto on an exquisitely dressed woman may in...

Stone Lantern in Tyme II, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. The symbols inherent in the gorintō, the stone lantern, are: the cube (Earth) representing stability, groun...

Medial Woman with Frog, on a rough wood plank, is covered with burlap and plaster for a leathery look, edged with beads. Encaustic wax layers the elements together. Medial Woman, as ...

Less literal than the other trays, Tray #5 presents a brass knob, turtle talesman, trinket of a vessel and an esoteric tool---possible implement in a fairytale. In this five-piec...

The Ringmaster is in the guise of a Japanese feudal lord, acrylic paint with cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas. Ever the showman, his lordship’s vision relates to Juvenal, ...

Stone Lantern in Tyme I, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. In the metaphor of lanterns of light, they open tyme/space, but they can also close it down. A flickering la...

These works reflect the animism of Japanese culture and Zen training. Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply in...

Diptych Landscape Pogonip-cold wax, monoprints, mulberry paper on canvas, 2025. There are many overlapping histories in the local terrain of Pogonip, a word borrowed from the Shoshon...

Mixed-media Series: Frog at the Bridge-Acrylic paint, copper, found objects on wood. Patinaed copper frog reaches the end of a long suspension bridge. Like many transformations facil...

Diptych Ribs of Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Ribs infer a biological or even geological structure. In this study, we are taking time out of the world of co...

Love Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2400. We have all experienced how tyme’s absorption in love has a different quality, whether falling in, worrying over a loved o...

Sentinel at the Border Graphite and monoprints on canvas. Vast frontiers require a watchful eye, whether in the terrain of the physical world or the world of ideas. This image calls ...

Revolution in Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Revolution can be an orbit or gyration, an uprising or insurrection. All require movement in space/time...

In the Layers of Reality Series, the Shaman/child is depicted. In anthropologist Manvir Singh’s definition of shaman, there are three basic features: entering non-ordinary states, en...

In the Layers of Reality Series, the Shaman/child is depicted. In anthropologist Manvir Singh’s definition of shaman, there are three basic features: entering non-ordinary states, en...

In Woman Playing with Holes, acrylic paint and handmade paper on canvas, a fundamental kind of play by fingering apertures, mouth, nose, ears, holes in a tree, or in the sand, sugges...

Tyme of Revolution, cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Within history, culture binds values and meaning to time through symbols. These images of flags and gas...

Hierophant with acrylic and cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas is the interpreter of the mysteries with the X-ray of a mouth in her hands. She transmits wisdom from a structu...

JoyFool with acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, and oil stick, evolved from an inquiry into the difference between joy and happiness. This led to the insight that h...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax to create transparent layers with oil paint over ...

Amulet, metal object with rust paint mixed media on wood panel, 2020. Amulet, on a wood panel, applied rust and acrylic paint and mixed media, suggests how an object is precious as i...

Abstract II: Countries, acrylic paint, tissue paper, graphite on canvas, 2016. Countries’ boundaries do not recognize the Earth’s deep time. Borders come and go faster than rivers an...

Figurative I Bedouin Angel, acrylic on canvas, 2017. This image came from a waking dream. Through an auditory hallucination of the repetitive slap of a tent flap in the wind, the ima...

Guardian Bear with Blue Wings, acrylic on canvas from a retreat in Ojo Caliente Hot Springs in New Mexico, brought forth this protective presence that has lingered ever since. Unperc...

Tableau on wood with metallic gold paint sets off an iconic tango embrace. This moment of visceral improvisation requires a deep center axis of balance for each dancer as well as the...

Throughout Japan, in folklore and theater, the fox spirit as shape-shifter has for millennia exhibited supernatural abilities to bewitch the unwary. Even contemporary admirers will l...

After living and working in the various disciplines of Japanese culture from long-bow archery to tea ceremony Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. No longer p...

Our Lady, with acrylic paint, cold wax, oil stick, and layers of marked tissue paper, opens up a novel way of relating to materials and creating context with layers of images. Throug...

Skyline, acrylic on canvas, is an abstract investigation of the world with acrylic paint and tissue paper leading to the known as well as the unknown. As in the demarcation of sky me...

The Fan-Shape Series represents how an iconic image manifests with many connotations. Like oracular coins, these fan shapes look like sonograms foretelling the immediate future of a ...

Living in Japan and working in various disciplines in the cultural arts, from long-bow archery to the tea ceremony, Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. No lo...

Animal II Series acrylic paintings on canvas express the relationship between humans and animals as mediums for diviners, guides, and visionaries. Some show animals in the act of bec...

With a folk-art flavor, burlap and plaster on wood with beads, Medial Woman in a Moment is captured in contemplation, held together with encaustic wax like a backyard icon. Medial Wo...

Diptych Moloka’i Spirit Dances, Art Graf, monoprint, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. The island natives appear to be part of the earth. With a swinging gait, their body language is ...

A six-week studio stay on Moloka’i gave me a sense of the Hawaiian Islands before colonization. Moloka’i has preserved her rich Native Hawaiian heritage and natural, rural landscape,...

Diptych San Miguel Comida, Art Graf, graphite, monoprints, tissue paper on watercolor paper, a two-tabled neighborhood eatery wraps tacos in checkered paper. San Miguel de Allende h...

Moloka’i Beach, Art Graf, impasto textures, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. On this island, to prevent us from flying away, there is a sense that our great central sun fastens each ...

San Miguel de Allende has a colorful cross-section of life: a contemporary international art community, structures of colonialization, and traces of the pre-Aztec civilization. Indig...

Diptych Lost and Found, graphite, cold wax, tissue, and mulberry paper on Arches, Losing things and finding things is a ritual repeated throughout our days. Sometimes inconsequently...

Diptych Ritual Break, cold wax, Art Graf (water-soluble drawing materials) on Rives BFK, there is a definitive break. Breaks are hard, overdue, temporary, or eternal, most often out ...

Skateboard Series: Underfoot II: acrylic, cold wax, graphite, and collage depicts how the surface of sound travels up through the soles of the feet, through the body to the imaginati...

Skateboard Portal II, paper, linen, fiberboard, acrylic, cold wax, graphite, textured collage narrows the world to a portal of chance with the hope of transcendence.

Garments can represent status, power, religious covenants, identity, and self-expression. Garment's nonverbal communication creates our perceptions of gender, age, ethnicity, profess...

Garments can represent status, power, religious covenants, identity, and self-expression. Garment's nonverbal communication creates our perceptions of gender, age, ethnicity, profess...

Garments can represent status, power, religious covenants, identity, and self-expression. Garment's nonverbal communication creates our perceptions of gender, age, ethnicity, profess...

Garments can represent status, power, religious covenants, identity, and self-expression. Garment's nonverbal communication creates our perceptions of gender, age, ethnicity, profess...

The Seal painting with a gold sky invites us into the ‘seal world,’ not just below the surface but into the beyond. It is a world of vast diversity that ...