Masami Teraoka is a Japanese-American artist who was born in Onomichi, the Hiroshima Prefecture of Japan in 1936. His artwork blends traditional Japanese Edo aesthetic with American culture and contemporary issues. Teraoka received a B.A. in Aesthetics at Kwansei Gakuin University in Kobe, Japan, before moving to Los Angeles in 1961, where he received his
Some of the Escalette Collection’s most fantastic pieces belong to the medium of screenprinting, and while that might ring a bell for some, to others the process is a total mystery. As the infant of the printmaking family, it only became a technique used in fine art during the mid-1930s, unlike to other printmaking methods
“Time and place are but a trick of the eye, a slight turn of the revolving global stage. Cultures and concepts may shift at any time, and collide at will.” – Allison Bing on the work of Masami Teraoka in Ascending Chaos: The Art of Masami Teraoka 1966-2006 Masami Teraoka was born