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Catharine Clark Gallery

October 2 - November 14, 2010

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248 Utah Street
 San Francisco, CA 94103
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Reception: Saturday, October 2, 5–7pm 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.