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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
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
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 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: 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: 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...
