About Majio at Studio Anavami
Majio trained in the United States, Europe and Asia. Her most influential training was over a decade in Japan to study Buddhist Art, including traditional arts of Zen and working with masters in the cultural arts. Training included papermaking, kimono dyeing, and the process making pieces and firing woodburning kilns. This was more about how to learn or, better said, how to practice. From the many words for practice in Japanese, Anavami Studio is about the polishing of being. In painting, Majio has always flowed back and forth between figurative and abstract expression....Read More
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Featured Pieces
Layers of Reality: On Gold, Four and Forty, tissue paper, cold wax, oil stick on
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax, a transparent layering with oil paint over acryl...
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2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Mix-media Series: Frog at the Bridge-acrylic paint, copper, found objects, wood.
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 Mixed Media
Materials
Copper
Figures II: Bear with Leia, Acrylic on Canvas, 60x40inches, New2019
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Princess Leia from Star Wars surprised me by showing up with my customary bear guardian. She is a strong female symbol in popular culture, representing courage, leadership, and defia...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Figurative I Consultation, Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas, 2010-
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Figurative I, acrylic paintings on canvas, have an archetypal quality, which initiates transmission through the character. They come from different cultures, times, and moments of ma...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Figurative I Guardian, acrylic on canvas, 2015, 48" X 60" X 1.75’
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Figurative I Guardian, acrylic on canvas, 2015. Even in modern-day Japan, the relationship between the physical world and one of the spirits is complex. Demons or yōkai are not inher...
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2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative I Bedouin Angel, acrylic painting on canvas, 2017
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
The Gift acrylic decorative paper, monoprints, oil sticks, cold wax 36x48 inches
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Figurative I, acrylic paintings on canvas, have an archetypal quality, which initiates transmission through the character. They come from different cultures, times, and moments of ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Slip-of-Self Painting on Blackboard, 60x40 Inches, New Condition
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The blackboard formula in the painting Slip-of-Self is a qubit. Qubit as a non-binary computer does not function on memory but possibility, not moving only vertically or horizontally...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
Figurative I Blackboard Series: Sumo, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010+
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Blackboard Series arose from an experience of three different images surrounded by a dense blackness of substance that could be marked on and erased like a blackboard. This suggested...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Wellspring Acrylic Painting, Figurative Style, Unframed, 60x 36 Inches
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The blackboard formula in the painting Slip-of-Self is a qubit. Qubit, as a non-binary computer, does not function on memory but possibility, not moving only vertically or horizontal...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract II Absence of Impetus, Acrylic paint on canvas, 2018
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Abstract II Absence of Impetus, Acrylic paint on canvas. Impetus denotes the transmission of power from mover to moved. Want of impetus is not necessarily a lack of impetus.
L...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Abstract II Time Tender, acrylic, tissue & graphite on canvas 2025.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite
