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Majio Animal Paintings

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.
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Artist: Majio
Looking over Shoulder- cold wax, graphite, monoprints, oil stick over texture
Looking over Shoulder- cold wax, graphite, monoprints, oil stick over texture

Looking over Shoulder- cold wax, graphite, monoprints, oil stick over texture

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Looking over Shoulder- cold wax, graphite, monoprints, oil stick over acrylic paint on textured panel. The five-year-old’s drawing of a dinosaur looking over his shoulder was added t...

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2010s Contemporary Majio Animal Paintings

Materials

Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Panel, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Animals II: Becoming Bear, acrylic on canvas, 2018.
Animals II: Becoming Bear, acrylic on canvas, 2018.

Animals II: Becoming Bear, acrylic on canvas, 2018.

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Becoming an animal is a shaman’s method of healing and gaining knowledge, and so for us. The animals we turn into are only recognized sometimes by those closest to us. Children can e...

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2010s Contemporary Majio Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, 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...

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2010s Folk Art Majio Animal Paintings

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Copper

Black Dragon on an Armadillo-cold wax, tissue paper, and oil stick over acrylic
Black Dragon on an Armadillo-cold wax, tissue paper, and oil stick over acrylic

Black Dragon on an Armadillo-cold wax, tissue paper, and oil stick over acrylic

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

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2010s Contemporary Majio Animal Paintings

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Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Panel, Tissue Paper

Animals II: Transformation with Teeth, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010s
Animals II: Transformation with Teeth, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010s

Animals II: Transformation with Teeth, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010s

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

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2010s Other Art Style Majio Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Seal-gold acrylic paint, paper, stencil, printing on canvas, 2012
Seal-gold acrylic paint, paper, stencil, printing on canvas, 2012

Seal-gold acrylic paint, paper, stencil, printing on canvas, 2012

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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 ...

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2010s Contemporary Majio Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

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...

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2010s Other Art Style Majio Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Diptych Crows with Doors, Acrylic on Canvas, 36x30 Inches, New
Diptych Crows with Doors, Acrylic on Canvas, 36x30 Inches, New

Diptych Crows with Doors, Acrylic on Canvas, 36x30 Inches, New

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Crows like ravens are messengers of the other side, bringing timely news not always appreciated. They symbolize change, transformation, and the beginning of something new, requiring ...

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2010s Other Art Style Majio Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Animals II: Blue Wings Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Contemporary Art
Animals II: Blue Wings Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Contemporary Art

Animals II: Blue Wings Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Contemporary Art

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

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2010s Other Art Style Majio Animal Paintings

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Animals II: Owlman Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 20x16 Inches, New
Animals II: Owlman Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 20x16 Inches, New

Animals II: Owlman Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 20x16 Inches, New

By Majio

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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...

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2010s Other Art Style Majio Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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Majio animal paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Majio animal paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of animal paintings to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Majio in acrylic paint, paint, synthetic resin 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 contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Majio animal paintings, so small editions measuring 9 inches across are available. Majio animal paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $750 and tops out at $9,000, while the average work can sell for $1,200.