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Majio at Studio Anavami

Santa Cruz, CA
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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

Majio at Studio Anavami

Established in 19951stDibs seller since 2024

Featured Pieces

Playing with Arms
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Just as an infant is amazed by toes and fingers this woman, in a private moment, considers her arms in a new light. We assume that we occupy our body until a new level of embodiment ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Playing with Arms

Majio
Playing with Arms, 2014

Playing with Surf-Acrylic paint with handmade paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This woman is caught with her hands in the ocean surf, playing. Perhaps she stands at the kitchen sink, a baby’s crib or even the shore---creating in contemplation. This series of s...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Playing with Surf-Acrylic paint with handmade paper on canvas

Majio
Playing with Surf-Acrylic paint with handmade paper on canvas, 2014

Tower acrylic paint on wood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The tower symbol of both destruction and transformation points to spiritual insight and self-reflection. This tower is very much alive, offering energy and perspective for the observ...
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2010s Other Art Style Paintings

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Wood, Acrylic

Tower acrylic paint on wood

Majio
Tower acrylic paint on wood, 2012

Japanese Scare Crow acrylic paint on wood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Dressed in a kitchen smock and sunhat the scarecrow stands fiercely warning the crows. At her feet out of sight the constant knock of a bamboo pipe filling and emptying with water t...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Japanese Scare Crow acrylic paint on wood

Majio
Japanese Scare Crow acrylic paint on wood, 2010

Diptych Landscape Poponip Cold wax, monoprints, mulberry paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
There are many overlapping histories in the local terrain of Pogonip, a word borrowed from the Shoshone language. The land in Santa Cruz still houses one of the first women’s polo cl...
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2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Diptych Landscape Poponip Cold wax, monoprints, mulberry paper on canvas

Majio
Diptych Landscape Poponip Cold wax, monoprints, mulberry paper on canvas

Diptych Ribs of Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Although ribs infer structure, biological or even geological, we are taking time out of the world of constructions to perceive the poetics of tyme through form. Albert Einstein sa...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Diptych Ribs of Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas

Majio
Diptych Ribs of Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024

Diptych Tyme Before Time Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
There has always been an interval of movement in space, the marking of sun and seasonal cycles has been presented as time and yet feeling into a prehistorically carved stone there is...
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2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media

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Canvas, Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

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

Majio
Diptych Tyme Before Time Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025

Tyme of Revolution Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Culture binds values, meaning and history through time with symbols. In these images flags and gasmasks present a flow of humankind, both personal and collective, including radical ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Tyme of Revolution Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on

Majio
Tyme of Revolution Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on, 2025

Revolution in Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, transfer on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Revolution can be an orbit or gyration, an uprising or insurrection---but all require movement in space/time. The transfer image in this piece evokes memory of cultural revolution fa...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Revolution in Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, transfer on canvas

Majio
Revolution in Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, transfer on canvas, 2025

Love Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
We have all experienced how times absorption in love has a different quality whether falling in, worrying over a loved one or immersion, showing us how tyme is created by our percept...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Oil, Monoprint

Love Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas

Majio
Love Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2400

Tyme Generator Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Materialistic societies generate time by manufacturing efficiency to result in productivity. But in reality we are free to creatively generate all kinds of time- time of day, time o...
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2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings

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Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Tyme Generator Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas

Majio
Tyme Generator Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024

Tyme Capsule Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The encapsulation of time takes a variety of forms---memories, movies, objects in space, history---but even more technological aids like video or recordings that demonstrate a passag...
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2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Monoprint

Tyme Capsule Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas

Majio
Tyme Capsule Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024

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