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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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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.
...
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
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Figurative II: Fox Spirit Around Neck
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Fox Spirit around Neck, acrylic paint, graphite on canvas. In Japan the fox or kitsune, even in modern day references, is a disorienting deity that causes one to lose one’s way.
In ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Figurative II: Fox Spirit at Waist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures are connected to the spirit world through animals and other ways via folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects of us whi...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Abstract II Time Tender
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
Our Lady with Wings, Large Format Mixed Media 44 in x 30 in
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Large format acrylic painting with cold wax, oil stick and layers of marked tissue paper introduces a new way of relating to materials and creating context. Through the layers of tis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Monoprint
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Partners with Owl Spirit
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 which expos...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Figurative I Blackboard Series: Wellspring
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Image of Wellspring from Black Board Series, experienced on Molokai as spirit of demi-urge is grounded not to the earth but through it. With feet planted, head back, weight is lifted...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blackboard Series: Slip-of-Self
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...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
Figurative I Blackboard Series: Sumo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Sumo wrestler is painted on blackboard on canvas with blackboard paint. The mathematical formula, U=abs (I---(C – B)) formula for Uncertainty from the research biologist Michael Dick...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative I Light Bearer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The Seeker leaves the known to discover and explore the unknown. This inner rugged individual brave loneliness and isolation to seek out new paths. Often oppositional. This iconoclas...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Figurative I Consultation
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These figurative acrylic paintings on canvas have an archetypal quality inviting in a transmission through character. They come from different cultures, times and moments of manifest...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Figurative I The Gift
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These figurative acrylic paintings on canvas have an archetypal quality inviting in a transmission through radiating character. They come from different cultures, times and moments o...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Figurative I One-in-Gold
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These figurative acrylic paintings on canvas have an archetypal quality inviting in a transmission through character. They come from different cultures, times and moments of manifest...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Figurative I Dancer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These figurative acrylic paintings on canvas have an archetypal quality inviting in a transmission through character. They come from different cultures, times and moments of manifest...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Abstract II Absence of Impetus
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Impetus denotes the transmission of power, even attach. We over value the transmission of power from mover to the object moved. Lack of impetus is not necessarily want of impetus.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Abstract II Sorted
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
Acrylic, Canvas
Abstract II Skyline
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Abstract investigation of the world with acrylic paint and tissue paper leads to known-unknown, demarcation of sky meeting earth, sea, buildings or something out there. How we see wh...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Canvas
Abstract II Basket
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Basket is a special kind of container opened at the top, bottom or both. It is woven with natural fibers and can carry fish or fire. As one of the human’s first receptacles no matter...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract II: Countries
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Countries do not recognize the deep time of the earth. Borders come and go faster than rivers and mountains. The peopling of the earth is filled with stories, songs and dreams of the...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract II: Bow to the Frontier
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Bow to the Frontier acknowledges the border between thresholds and that frontiers requires a humbling of self. It is to place ourselves in the role to acquiesce to the breadth that s...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract II Edges Between
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
Abstract II Amulet
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Amulet, on a wood panel with rust and acrylic paint with mixed media, suggests how an object becomes precious, serving as talisman for orientation in the perils of the world.
After...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Diptych Crows with Doors
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Crows like ravens are messengers of the other side that bring timely news not always appreciated. They symbolize change, transformation, and the beginning of something new. This enta...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract II Seeds
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
$3,800
Animals II: Bear with Leia
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Popular culture shows up in our psyches. Here Princess Leia, a hero of space odyssey, is interacting with one of Majio’s reoccurring bear figures.
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals II: Fox Arms
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals II: Becoming Bear
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Becoming an animal is a shaman’s method of healing and gaining information, but it also happens to us. We become animals, sometimes only recognized by those closest to us. Children e...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals II: Turning into Something with Teeth
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals II: Fox Divination
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
For many people across the planet, from modern day Japan to the Dogon people of Mali in West Africa, foxes are supernatural beings. Their markings along the river are used to divine ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
13. Animals I: Horse on Gold
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals II: Blue Wings
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals II: Owlman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals I: Coyote with Ladder
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals I: Horse on Gold
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals I: Entangled
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Animals I: Young-Coyote-Out of Sorts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts Young Coyote learning the trade of trickster, not just as a folk story but as archetype that walks among the communities in New Mexico, turning ...
Category
2010s Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Animals I : Being Walked
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animal II: Entangled
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals I : Birds Tussling
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Animals I: Feeding-Fledgling
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Being Walked
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
With pets sometimes it is hard to tell who is walking whom. Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three diverse cultures-native, Anglo and Spanish. Majio has for many decades made yearly painting trips and extended retreats to the triangle between Sante Fe, Taos and Abiquiu. Her animal depictions not only reflect stories but are also enhanced by how people there embody the land and wildlife. Her intimate connection to the cultural traditions of the Pueblo Indians, descents from 15th century Spanish...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Animals I :One-eyed Fox
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three diverse cultures-native, Anglo and Spanish. Majio has for many decades made yearly painting trips and extended retreats to the triangle between Sante Fe, Taos and Abiquiu. Her animal depictions not only reflect stories but are also enhanced by how people there embody the land and wildlife. Her intimate connection to the cultural traditions of the Pueblo Indians, descents from 15th century Spanish...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Animals I: Black Crow
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Animals I : Talking a Blue Streak
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three diverse cultures-native, Anglo and Spanish. Majio has for many decades made yearly painting trips and extended retreats to the triangle between Sante Fe, Taos and Abiquiu. Her animal depictions not only reflect stories but are also enhanced by how people there embody the land and wildlife. Her intimate connection to the cultural traditions of the Pueblo Indians, descents from 15th century Spanish...
Category
2010s Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Animals I: Bird Yakking
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three diverse cultures-native, Anglo and Spanish. Majio has for many decades made yearly painting trips and extended retreats to the triangle between Sante Fe, Taos and Abiquiu. Her animal depictions not only reflect stories but are also enhanced by how people there embody the land and wildlife. Her intimate connection to the cultural traditions of the Pueblo Indians, descents from 15th century Spanish...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Catalyst Awaits
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
On paper, with marking implements; graphite and Art Graf and cold, a water-soluble kinetic media in tailor’s squares that easily fits into the hand to use the edges or the flat sides...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Other Medium
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
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
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
