Malibu Woman from the New Waves series

Object Details

• Artist

  Masami Teraoka (Japan, born 1936; active United States)

• Label

  Malibu Woman was selected by the artist as a gift to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition of Paintings by Masami Teroaka held at the Sackler (June 1996-January 1997).

  The painting features the image of a pensive woman tearing open a condom wrapper with her teeth. Japanese characters at the right of the painting read: "My boyfriend doesn't like to use condoms."

  Teroaka, at the peak of his career, offers in Malibu Woman technical bravura and a sharply distilled image. Issues of sexuality, the blend and clash of Japanese and Western cultures, the overlay of Western pop art style with fragments of nineteenth century woodblock print references are presented in this painting with an economy of means that reenforces visual effect.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Paintings by Masami Teraoka (June 16, 1996 to January 1, 1997)

• Origin

  United States

• Credit Line

  Gift of the artist

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1990s

• Name

  Teraoka, Masami

• Place

  United States

• Topic

  Contemporary Art, Heisei era (1989 - 2019), Art, Japanese Art, Woman

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings