Reception for Masami Teraoka: Solo Exhibition October 2, 2010

Masami Teraoka is widely known for early works that combine the aesthetics of traditional Japanese Edo period woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, with products and cultural references informed by Western society. His newest paintings expand upon Teraoka's prescient preoccupation with globalism and hypocrisy, his concerns about American life post 9-11, and the Catholic church sex abuse scandal, through stylistic appropriation of early European Renaissance painting. In these works Teraoka adopts the compositions and palette of Renaissance painting --complete with gold-leaf frames --in combination with the aesthetics of traditional Edo-era masters.