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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

Mendicant Monk/Woman Warrior-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The first layer of this painting was an ardent bare-breasted woman warrior reaching for a sword. The next layer that emerged, influenced by the Monk Series, was the outline of a trad...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Mendicant Monk/Woman Warrior-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas

Majio
Mendicant Monk/Woman Warrior-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025

Monks Series: Monk I-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Layers of Reality Series acknowledges that we can alter our created perceptions in practice by dropping down beneath what we perceive as “the reality” into another stream of informat...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Monks Series: Monk I-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas

Majio
Monks Series: Monk I-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025

Ancestors: One Who Sees Through 2023 -Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
One Who Sees Through Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick has the vision to enter thresholds. There are Taoist glyphs of magic to open those doors where sh...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Ancestors: One Who Sees Through 2023 -Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper

Majio
Ancestors: One Who Sees Through 2023 -Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper

Ancestors: JoyFool-Cold wax, tissue paper & oil stick on acrylic paint
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
JoyFool, with acrylic, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper and oil stick, evolved from the fool as I inquired into the difference between joy and happiness leading to the insight th...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Ancestors: JoyFool-Cold wax, tissue paper & oil stick on acrylic paint

Majio
Ancestors: JoyFool-Cold wax, tissue paper & oil stick on acrylic paint, 2023

Jaw of the Ancestors-Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprint, tissue paper & oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors are lined up through instructional patterns. Above them ravens fly into a skeletal mouth opening of a cave. Diamonds arise from the ancestors at attention below. Ancestors...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Jaw of the Ancestors-Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprint, tissue paper & oil

Majio
Jaw of the Ancestors-Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprint, tissue paper & oil, 2023

Ancestors: Moon Drummer-Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper & oil stic
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Moon Drummer acrylic paint base with cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick is an archetypal figure standing in the surf with forests sprouting from her head and shoulders....
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors: Moon Drummer-Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper & oil stic

Majio
Ancestors: Moon Drummer-Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper & oil stic, 2023

Ancestors: Bird-Woman - Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint &
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Bird-Woman acrylic, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper and oil stick embraces polarity manipulating the strings that look to be the x-ray of a mouth. A toy top swirls in her cape, ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors: Bird-Woman - Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint &

Majio
Ancestors: Bird-Woman - Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint &, 2023

Ancestors: Ringmaster Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint monoprints
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This painting of acrylic and cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas, Ringmaster, is in the guise of a Japanese lord. The ringmaster is ever the showman with his vision on circus ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors: Ringmaster Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint monoprints

Majio
Ancestors: Ringmaster Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint monoprints, 2022

Ancestors Ascending cold wax, oil paint and printed paper 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 ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Monoprint

Ancestors Ascending cold wax, oil paint and printed paper on canvas.

Majio
Ancestors Ascending cold wax, oil paint and printed paper on canvas., 2020

Figures II: Bow at the Frontier-acrylic and mixed media on canvas
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 ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Figures II: Bow at the Frontier-acrylic and mixed media on canvas

Majio
Figures II: Bow at the Frontier-acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 2018

Ancient One-Acrylic painting, tissue paper monoprints on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancient One, acrylic paint and monoprint on canvas is staged with fluttering gingko leaves, the oldest living tree species predating dinosaurs. The central image is hand to mouth---h...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancient One-Acrylic painting, tissue paper monoprints on canvas.

Majio
Ancient One-Acrylic painting, tissue paper monoprints on canvas., 2021

Hierophant Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint & paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Portrait of Other, acrylic paint and monoprint on canvas takes place in a major threshold. Looking through the threshold into a portrait of someone, or something somewhere that is no...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Hierophant Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint & paper on canvas

Majio
Hierophant Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint & paper on canvas, 2022

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