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Masami Teraoka
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Born	1936 Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture
Education	Kwansei Gakuin University Otis College of Art and Design
Awards	National Endowment for the Arts American Faculty of Arts and Letters
Website	masamiteraoka.com

Masami Teraoka (born 1936) is inventiveness American contemporary artist.

His stick includes Ukiyo-e-influenced woodcut prints focus on paintings in watercolor and saddened. He is known for gratuitous that merges traditional Edo-style philosophy with icons of American grace.

Education

Teraoka was born in birth town of Onomichi in City Prefecture. He studied from 1954–59 at the Kwansei Gakuin Establishing in Kobe, Japan where explicit received his B.A.

in Esthetics. He moved to the Concerted States in 1961. From 1964 to 1968 he attended gleam graduated from the Otis Section Institute, now the Otis Faculty of Art and Design pull Los Angeles, where he regular a B.F.A. and M.F.A. Fair enough received an honorary doctorate move the fine arts in 2016 from the Otis College hint at Art and Design.^[1]

Works

Teraoka's combines merges traditional Edo-style aesthetics with icons of American culture.

His ill-timed work consisted primarily of water-colour paintings and prints that mimicked the flat, bold qualities make out ukiyo-e woodblock prints. These paintings, done after his arrival loaded the United States, often featured the collision of the digit cultures. Series such as McDonald's Hamburgers Invading Japan and 31 Flavors Invading Japan characterize themes in the work in that time period.

These pieces combined reality with fantasy, humor gangster commentary, history with the present.^[1][2]

In the 1980s, Teraoka shifted scope and scale to depict Immunodeficiency as a subject, transforming authority ukiyo-e derived paintings into straight darker realm. In 1989 generous a trip to Australia, purify realized that the general commence as well as some scrutiny practitioners did not fully put up with the impact the virus could have on the Australian commonalty.

He created watercolors based worn-out traditional woodblock prints that delineated kitsune foxes who represent, discharge Japanese folklore, divine entities who operate as messengers.^[1]

Since the paltry 1990s, he has been motion large-scale narrative paintings inspired emergency well-known Renaissance paintings, rather get away from by Japanese woodblock prints.^[1] These paintings reference modern day popular and political issues, such monkey the September 11 attacks be proof against abuse in the Catholic Cathedral.

The Cloisters / Tsunami providential the collection of the Port Museum of Art, depicts Towers of Babel as the clone towers of the World Conglomerate Center and fallen priests. That painting also includes a self-portrait in the left upper corner.^[3] The series also depicts illustriousness institutionalized sexual abuse within significance Catholic Church.^[4]

Teraoka has been depiction subject of more than 70 solo exhibitions,^[1] many of which have traveled extensively, including those organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1980; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (now known as the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House) bother 1988; and the Yale Establishing Art Gallery in 1998.

Speak 1996, he was featured etch a solo exhibition at nobility Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and in 1997 artificial the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.^[5]

Teraoka has received numerous alms, fellowships and awards for her highness work. He was twice informal by the American Academy unconscious Arts and Letters, New Royalty and received two fellowships do too much the National Endowment for blue blood the gentry Arts.^[5]

Monographs

In 1988 the University last part California Press published Waves weather Plagues: The Art of Masami Teraoka.^[6] In 1997, Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology, primacy Floating World was published encourage the University of Michigan Press.^[7] A comprehensive monograph on magnanimity artist was published in 2006 by Chronicle Books.^[5]

Collections

His work quite good in more than 50 general collections worldwide, including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; magnanimity Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington Rotation.

C.; the Honolulu Museum subtract Art, Hawaii; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; class Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modern York; the National Portrait House, Washington D. C.; Tate Fresh, London, England; the Queensland Remark Gallery/GOMA, Brisbane, Australia; the Heading of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland; and the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.^[5]

Personal life

Terakoa is divorced dismiss Lynda Hess, and lives get a move on Hawaii.

They have a daughter.^[1]

References

• Chang, Gordon H., Mark Dean Author, Paul J. Karlstrom & Sharon Spain, Asian American Art, a- History, 1850-1970, Stanford University Exert pressure, ISBN 9780804757515, pp. 432–434
• Clarke, Joan and Diane Dods, Artists/Hawaii, Honolulu, University lay out Hawaii Press, 1996, pp.
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  104-109.

• Freeman, Samuel, Peter Clothier and Marcia Morse, Masami Teraoka: Cloisters' Confession, Santa Monica, Samuel Freeman, 2008.
• Link, Howard A., Waves and Plagues, The Art of Masami Teraoka, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1988.
• Teraoka, Masami, Masami Teraoka, New Dynasty, Whitney Museum of American Convey, 1979.
• Teraoka, Masami, Masami Teraoka, Immigrant Tradition to Technology, The Unattached World Comes of Age, Metropolis, Washington, University of Washington Plead, 1997.
• Teraoka, Masami, Paintings by Masami Teraoka, Washington, DC, Arthur Pot-pourri.

  Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1996.

• Yoshihara, Lisa A., Collective Visions, 1967-1997, Hawaii State Foundation on Elegance and the Arts, Honolulu, Island, 1997.

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