MAGNOLIA
EDITIONS
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©2013 Magnolia Editions. All rights reserved. Text by Nick Stone. Excerpt from Masami-za © 2006 Alison Bing.
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Masami Teraoka: Tattooed Woman at Sunset Beach II, 2013
Jacquard tapestry, 115 x 76 in. Edition of 8
Magnolia Editions is
pleased to announce its
second tapestry edition by Masami
Teraoka, a Japanese-born,
Hawaii-based artist whose work
employs a mastery of traditional
Ukiyo-e styles and iconography
to consider contemporary
issues, creating what the artist
calls a “cross-epoch conversation.”
Tattooed Woman on Sunset
Beach II finds the artist revisiting
Tattooed Woman on Sunset
Beach, an intimate 1984 watercolor
measuring only fourteen
by ten inches. Over the course
of two years, Teraoka worked
with Donald Farnsworth to
create a digital weave file based
on the painting, carefully
reworking his composition and
introducing new elements to
arrive at a monumental tapestry
edition nearly ten feet high and
six feet across.
