Skip to main content

Majio Mixed Media

American, b. 1945
Majio has training in the United State, several years in Europe with a Master’s degree from the Buddhist University of Naropa in Creation Spirituality. Her most influential training however was in Japan over a twelve year period. Her initial trip to Japan was to study Buddhist Art, but it quickly narrowed to the traditional arts of Zen and masters if that orientation in other cultural arts. It was not so much what was learned in a papermaking village, kimono dyeing studio or the making, filling and firing woodburning kilns but how to learn or, better said, how to practice. There are many words in Japanese for practice, the one here is the polishing of being. In painting, Majio has always flowed back and forth between figurative and abstract expression. The aesthetics and Cultural Arts--- like calligraphy and tea ceremony---- garnered during her apprenticeships in Japan, along with Zen practices and concepts weave many textures into her work. Majio’s pieces are created with the overarching concept that art is not a polarity between object and subject but rather, complementary, where each part works to define each other. Working from a collaborative process-with materials, with subject and with times, Majio releases herself as sole agent, even when hers are the only hands that touch the piece. This carries out to the viewer, opening a sense of participation, evoking involvement and discussion. Inviting a realization of recognizing and choosing to acknowledge a reality beyond what we have inherited provides a platform for evoking possibilities, innate joy and new vision.
to
1
19
10
1
2
4
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
36
16
2
18
15
3
5
5
4
3
2
1
1
1
1
29
26
16
13
13
148
289
266
149
149
36
Artist: Majio
Portal of Jaw, Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper & oil stick on canvas.
Portal of Jaw, Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper & oil stick on canvas.

Portal of Jaw, Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper & oil stick on canvas.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Ancestors are lined up through instructional tissue sheets of a dress pattern. Above them, ravens fly into a skeletal mouth opening of a cave. Diamonds arise from the ancestors at at...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Dog's Tag-acrylic paint, paper, found objects
Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Dog's Tag-acrylic paint, paper, found objects

Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Dog's Tag-acrylic paint, paper, found objects

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Diptych Tango Paper Dolls with Dog Tags-acrylic paint, decorative and handmade paper collage, found objects, and vintage paper doll. The first image in the diptych is the sensual emb...

Category

2010s Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic

Layers of Reality: Peonies Cold wax, monoprint, oil stick on canvas
Layers of Reality: Peonies Cold wax, monoprint, oil stick on canvas

Layers of Reality: Peonies Cold wax, monoprint, oil stick on canvas

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Working from the concept of Haiku Mind had a surprising impact on how this work was conceived. The ancient poetic form of Japanese haiku is traditionally a tool for acute observation...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Wax, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Skateboard Series with X-Ray II, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collag on paper.
Skateboard Series with X-Ray II, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collag on paper.

Skateboard Series with X-Ray II, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collag on paper.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Skateboard Series with X-Ray II, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collaged images are choreographed with calligraphic marks. The obscured X-ray, a reminder of risk, of the gamble. In ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Oil

Triptych Indigo Rain encaustic, fabric, paper, wire, and paper on wood 2020
Triptych Indigo Rain encaustic, fabric, paper, wire, and paper on wood 2020

Triptych Indigo Rain encaustic, fabric, paper, wire, and paper on wood 2020

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Wire

Skateboard Series with X-Ray I, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collage on paper.
Skateboard Series with X-Ray I, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collage on paper.

Skateboard Series with X-Ray I, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collage on paper.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Skateboard Series with X-Ray I, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collage, includes a symbolic spell script from an ancient Taoist manuscript. This speaks to meeting risk and chance wit...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Oil

Skateboarder as Jester, with cold wax, graphite, and collage on paper, 2024.
Skateboarder as Jester, with cold wax, graphite, and collage on paper, 2024.

Skateboarder as Jester, with cold wax, graphite, and collage on paper, 2024.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Skateboarder as Jester, with cold wax, graphite, and collage, is the collective fool dancing at the edge of ascension and disaster. It is a collective archetype that acts it out for ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Oil, Graphite

Skateboarder On the Pinnacle cold wax, graphite, collage 2024
Skateboarder On the Pinnacle cold wax, graphite, collage 2024

Skateboarder On the Pinnacle cold wax, graphite, collage 2024

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

This mixed-media skateboard series, On the Pinnacle, combines acrylic, cold wax, graphite, and textured collage on paper. It suggests that anyone with enough guts, skill, and luck ca...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Oil, Graphite

Medial Woman with Frog, Folk Art Mixed Media, 2010s, encaustic.
Medial Woman with Frog, Folk Art Mixed Media, 2010s, encaustic.

Medial Woman with Frog, Folk Art Mixed Media, 2010s, encaustic.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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 ...

Category

2010s Folk Art Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Burlap, Plaster, Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Wax, Acrylic

Garment Series-Panel #1 Social Awareness: leather-like finish, cold wax
Garment Series-Panel #1 Social Awareness: leather-like finish, cold wax

Garment Series-Panel #1 Social Awareness: leather-like finish, cold wax

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Panel

Diptych Taking Form-Leather-like finish, ArtGraf marked tissue layers, cold wax
Diptych Taking Form-Leather-like finish, ArtGraf marked tissue layers, cold wax

Diptych Taking Form-Leather-like finish, ArtGraf marked tissue layers, cold wax

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Tissue Paper, Wax, Wood

Medial Woman at the County Fair, burlap, plaster, acrylic paint, encaustic
Medial Woman at the County Fair, burlap, plaster, acrylic paint, encaustic

Medial Woman at the County Fair, burlap, plaster, acrylic paint, encaustic

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Experimenting with burlap and plaster on wood with beads, the Medial Woman arose as a catalyst to invite the liminal space. The genre is folk art, putting communication between world...

Category

2010s Folk Art Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Burlap, Plaster, Wood, Paint, Mixed Media, Wax, Encaustic, Acrylic, Maga...

Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Shell-acrylic paint, paper, found object
Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Shell-acrylic paint, paper, found object

Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Shell-acrylic paint, paper, found object

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Medial Woman in a Moment, Folk Art Mixed Media on Wood, 2010-
Medial Woman in a Moment, Folk Art Mixed Media on Wood, 2010-

Medial Woman in a Moment, Folk Art Mixed Media on Wood, 2010-

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Folk Art Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Burlap, Plaster, Found Objects, Encaustic, Acrylic

Mix-media Series: Frog at the Bridge-acrylic paint, copper, found objects, wood.
Mix-media Series: Frog at the Bridge-acrylic paint, copper, found objects, wood.

Mix-media Series: Frog at the Bridge-acrylic paint, copper, found objects, wood.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Copper

Artifacts of Various Realities-Tray 3 Small objects on wood provoking new storie
Artifacts of Various Realities-Tray 3 Small objects on wood provoking new storie

Artifacts of Various Realities-Tray 3 Small objects on wood provoking new storie

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Silver, Wire

Revolution in Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024.
Revolution in Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024.

Revolution in Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

#1 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood
#1 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood

#1 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Copper

#5 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood
#5 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood

#5 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Copper

#4 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood
#4 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood

#4 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Copper

#3 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood-
#3 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood-

#3 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood-

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

EEncaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images f...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Copper

#2 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood-
#2 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood-

#2 Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on wood-

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Copper

Diptych Markings- Leather-like finish, Art Graf marked tissue layers, cold wax
Diptych Markings- Leather-like finish, Art Graf marked tissue layers, cold wax

Diptych Markings- Leather-like finish, Art Graf marked tissue layers, cold wax

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

This diptych, Markings, with a leather-like finish of cold wax and layers of marked tissue paper on wood, reads as an ancient surface immersed in the markings of time. Fragments of m...

Category

2010s Abstract Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Wax, Tissue Paper, Graphite

Triptych Boat with Spirit Winds, graphite, monoprint with cold wax on 3 panels
Triptych Boat with Spirit Winds, graphite, monoprint with cold wax on 3 panels

Triptych Boat with Spirit Winds, graphite, monoprint with cold wax on 3 panels

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Triptych Boat with Spirit Winds, graphite, monoprint with cold wax on 3 panels. A lone boat flanked by symbolic spirit winds comforts the highly superstitious sailors and fishermen, ...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Monoprint, Graphite

Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 5 Small objects, wood provoking new stories
Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 5 Small objects, wood provoking new stories

Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 5 Small objects, wood provoking new stories

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 2 Found objects on wood
Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 2 Found objects on wood

Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 2 Found objects on wood

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Stone

Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 1 Found objects on wood
Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 1 Found objects on wood

Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 1 Found objects on wood

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Adhesive, Found Objects, Graphite

Mix-media Series: Seeds-acrylic paint with ribbon, silver beads on wood
Mix-media Series: Seeds-acrylic paint with ribbon, silver beads on wood

Mix-media Series: Seeds-acrylic paint with ribbon, silver beads on wood

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Seeds, acrylic paint with silk ribbon, silver beads on wood, like slips of engraved silver on rough wood, seek a place to grow. From a knothole, a silky material peeks out, inviting ...

Category

2010s Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Silver

Diptych Tyme Before Time, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024.
Diptych Tyme Before Time, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024.

Diptych Tyme Before Time, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Diptych Tyme Before Time, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. There have always been intervals of movement in space. The marking of sun and seasonal cycles has been pres...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Tyme of Revolution, cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024.
Tyme of Revolution, cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024.

Tyme of Revolution, cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Monoprint, Tissue Paper, Wax, Canvas

Fox and Dragonfly  Monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Fox and Dragonfly  Monoprints, oil stick on canvas

Fox and Dragonfly Monoprints, oil stick on canvas

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

The original image, Fox on Gold, confirms how the trickster fox appears throughout my work for decades. In the spirit of haiku mind, I carried this image with curiosity for weeks, as...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Monoprint, Tissue Paper, Acrylic

Monks Series, # I, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025.
Monks Series, # I, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025.

Monks Series, # I, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Monks Series, # III, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025. Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no single ...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Tissue Paper

Fox with Bees 2025 Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas.
Fox with Bees 2025 Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas.

Fox with Bees 2025 Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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-...

Category

2010s Contemporary Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite

Monks Series, # II, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024.
Monks Series, # II, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024.

Monks Series, # II, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Monks Series, # II, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025, 24 Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no sing...

Category

2010s Other Art Style Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Wax, Oil, Handmade Paper, Tissue Paper

Moloka’i Series: Foot Bridge, Figurative Mixed Media on Paper, 28x22 Inches
Moloka’i Series: Foot Bridge, Figurative Mixed Media on Paper, 28x22 Inches

Moloka’i Series: Foot Bridge, Figurative Mixed Media on Paper, 28x22 Inches

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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,...

Category

2010s Abstract Majio Mixed Media

Materials

Archival Paper, Other Medium

Majio mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Majio mixed media available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Majio in paper, acrylic paint, paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Majio mixed media, so small editions measuring 11 inches across are available. Majio mixed media prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $300 and tops out at $775, while the average work can sell for $550.