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
Ancestors at the Threshold-Cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, acrylic paint
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors at the Threshold with cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas tells of the intersection of worlds where directions are altered, going forward and going back. It presents...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint
Portrait of Other-Acrylic painting, tissue paper, large monoprints on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors, is a series using cold wax, oil stick and layers of marked tissue paper with monoprints. The series explores, through transparent layers of overlapping images, the subtle...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Diptych Ancestor in Transit-Cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This diptych, Ancestor in Transit, shows ancestors journeying and pausing in their journey with their small traveling bundles. The backdrop is the liminal space between worlds evokin...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint
Shield-Cold wax oil stick, graphite, tissue paper, attached brass piece on panel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Shield, with oil paint and laminated cold wax layers of marked tissue paper, captures a sense of the protection of the everyday world from our awareness of other realms of reality. T...
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2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings
Materials
Brass
Figures II: Women Fold-timeless family of women on canvas, large acrylic format.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These women are from my family but are also from many cultures and other times. They are held together with calmness and devotion as they stand in a field of lavender.
In the series...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figures II: Bear with Leia
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Princess Leia surprised me, by showing up with my customary bear guardian. She is a strong female symbol in popular culture, representing courage, leadership, and defiance against op...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Figures II: Shaman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Shaman, acrylic on canvas, in a broad stance manipulates the nine boxes seeming to float in the air. This is an archetypal presence of the one who gets information from the beyond, s...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative I Guardian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Even in modern day Japan the relationship between the physical world and one of the spirits is complex. Demons or yōkai are not inherently good or bad, but rather encompass a wide ra...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative II Conjuror
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures are connected to the spirit world through animals via folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects of ourselves.
The Conju...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Figurative I Bedouin Angel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This image came from the experience of a waking dream where through auditory hallucination of a repetitive slap of a tent flap in the wind the image of the Bedouin Angel appeared.
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Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Figures II: Guardian Bear with Blue Wings, Large Format Painting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Large format acrylic painting on canvas. A guardian bear envelops an unclothed woman with protective wings, offering solace as she contemplates her vulnerability. Triple X is a sig...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figures II: Light-Coat Shifting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures in acrylic paint on canvas are connected to the spirit world through animals, folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
