Friends of The Contemporary Museum - Tour Masami Teraoka

Masami Teraoka Studio Tour

March 5^th2010

from 5 PM to 7 PM

at the artist’s studio in Waimanalo

$20 for Friends’ members

$30 for non-members

Limited to 20 guests

To make a reservation, email Merilyn Gray -hamgray@juno.com or call her at 261-9722.

If you have questions, call Jill MacMillan at 732-7778

*non-members may become members by paying an additional $10 (for a total payment of $40)

MASAMI TERAOKA

Masami Teraoka is a renown contemporary artist with over 70 solo exhibitions and works in more than 50 public collections worldwide, including the Met, the Tate, the Smithsonian and the Whitney.

Masami’s website describes his recent work as the challenge of “Weaving news media, reality, fantasy, visionary, imaginary and otherworldly reality with humor, line, form and color, commentary, topicality, and a high level of aesthetics …. I try to focus on current issues articulated on a metaphorical level rather than recreating a mere copy of reality. Each narrative creates a fantastical aesthetic world where human folly and dilemma are expressed in such a way that the beauty and ugliness of human activity and psyche thrive in a complex pictorial recipe”.