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Climate Complexity
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Climate Complexity, with layered monoprints and cold wax offers a complex image of what is simply in the moment. The deep time of earth geology is only graspable by deep imagination ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Waiting to Peek
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Mulberry Paper, Graphite
Embers of Conversation
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Moloka’i Series: Foot Bridge
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Other Medium
The Capture
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Other Medium
The Argument
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Conversation
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Through the Diamonds
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Sumi ink and monoprints on paper capture a moment. Traditional brush calligraphy in Asia is a formidable practice for uniting mind and heart. The power of a stroke is also an indicat...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Acrylic
Metamorphous
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
First There is a Mountain
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Smoke and Barbed Wire
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Diptych Journey within Unending
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint with water-soluble Art Graf and graphite heightens the directness of marking in this diptych series on paper. Art Graf comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into th...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Diptych Playing with Mu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint with water-soluble Art Graf and graphite heightens the directness of marking in this diptych series on paper. Art Graf comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into th...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
Diptych Bridge to Intimacy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The two sides in Diptych Bridge to Intimacy---monoprints, graphite and wooden fabric stamps on paper---- talk to each other. They each have a part in les...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Diptych Edge of Whimsy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint with water-soluble Art Graf and graphite heightens the directness of marking in this diptych series on paper. Art Graf comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into th...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Diptych Floor Plan of the Sanctuary
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint with water-soluble Art Graf and graphite heightens the directness of marking in this diptych series on paper. Art Graf comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into th...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
Diptych Seeds
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint with water-soluble Art Graf and graphite heightens the directness of marking in this diptych series on paper. Art Graf comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into th...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Diptych Childhood Intimacy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Lacy handmade and decorative striped paper summoned pastels to bring out an aspect of intimacy that only innocence can grant. Childhood intimacy is boundaryless, if volatile. This di...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Diptych Through the Opening
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint with water-soluble Art Graf and graphite heightens the directness of marking in this diptych series on paper. Art Graf comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into th...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Diptych Comfortable in the Liminal
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint with water-soluble Art Graf and graphite heightens the directness of marking in this diptych series on paper. Art Graf comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into th...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Small Wooden Pieces I: Diptych Lost Love Poem in Gold
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Vintage gold patterned paper with red asemic calligraphy alludes to a love poem. Undelivered, yet carried forever, this diptych shows paper scraps of words unsaid. Carefully chosen b...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Pigment
Small Wooden Pieces I: Medial Woman in a Moment
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
With a folk-art flavor, this piece combines burlap and plaster, encaustic on wood and beads to capture Medial Woman in a difficult moment. Although she is an archetype of the interme...
Category
2010s Folk Art Mixed Media
Materials
Burlap, Plaster, Found Objects, Encaustic, Acrylic
Small Wooden Pieces I: Tango Paper Doll Series: Diptych Polka Dots and Fish
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Gold as a background in the Diptych Polka Dots and Fish suggests an icon while undermining the tango dancing couple as they are morphed into paper doll images. This alludes to an in...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic
Wood I: Tango Paper Doll Series: Diptych Tango & Dolly-Dragonfly and Number Tag
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Two parts of the diptych are in conversation. They inform each other. The brevity of these pieces, like haiku tells a story that suggests a leap of understanding. What is left out, t...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Film, Photographic Film, Acrylic
Small Wooden Pieces I: Diptych Blue Joy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
BlueJoy is created with cold wax and monoprints, mulberry paper on wood in the spirit of celebration. Most cultures throughout the world have believe that all things have some kind o...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Paper, Archival Paper, Graphite, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Small Wooden Pieces I: Medial Woman in a Moment
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
With a folk-art flavor, this piece combines burlap and plaster, encaustic on wood and beads to capture Medial Woman in a difficult moment. Although she is an archetype of the interme...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Encaustic
Medial Woman at the County Fair
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Experimenting with burlap and plaster on wood with beads was a catalyst inviting in the liminal space between worlds, governed by the Medial Woman. The flavor for the three pieces in...
Category
2010s Folk Art Mixed Media
Materials
Burlap, Plaster, Wood, Paint, Mixed Media, Wax, Encaustic, Acrylic, Maga...
Small Wooden Pieces I: Tango Dolly Dingle Series: Dolly with Three Dots
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Although Majio makes no conscious effort to make Japanese art her apprenticeships in ceramics, papermaking and the cultural arts show up unbidden. Gold is often the empty space that suggests and/or conceals. The juxtaposition of incongruent things invites in story and poetry rather than contractions. The spirit of Majio’s aikido practice was alive much later in dancing Argentine tango, which is present in the small gold icon pieces of tango paper dolls.
In Dolly with Three Dots, gold metallic paint on wood surrounds the embrace of Argentine street tango dancers witnessed by an innocent girl-child from the 1920s. It highlights a gap in time and culture. In one country this dance is common, while in another perplexing. The figures have paper doll tabs to suggests their enigmatic juxtaposition is in the context of social practicing like many children's toys and yet the innuendo of an adult dance is beyond the child's world. The Dolly Dingles doll...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Small Wooden Pieces I: Tango Dolly Dingle Series: Dolly with Squares
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Tableau on wood with metallic gold paint sets off an iconic tango embrace. This moment of visceral improvisation requires deep a center axis of balance for each dancer as well as the...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Small Wooden Pieces I: Tango and Dolly Dingle Series: Dolly with Diamonds
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Like an icon, gold paint on wood of seemingly contradictory images of passionate tango and the gaze of a girl-child. Images in art evoke stories linking together the in a-casual ways...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Small Wooden Pieces I: Triptych Green Mudra
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The green calligraphic strokes in this triptych are Mudras, those symbolic hand positions that gathering and releasing energy. Through the painted gestures regular patterns, integral...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Etching, Paper
Small Wooden Pieces I: Diptych: Dolly with Film and Dolly with Fan
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
On raw wood panels gold paint introduces this series of vintage paper dolls in a particular way. They are honored as they conceal parts of the narrative. Paper dolls appear throughou...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
Abstract I: Cross-Roads
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Abstract I: Instruments Waiting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Abstract I: Fan-Shape Series: Fan-Irreverence
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite, Tissue Paper
Abstract I: Fan-Shape Series: Suspended
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Abstract I: Fan-Shape Series: Nuance and Power
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Acrylic, Graphite, Tissue Paper
Abstract I: Fan-Shaped Series: Deliverance
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wax, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Abstract I: And Counting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract I: Beast Emerging
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract I: Anvil and Bellows
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
