Meher McArthur
About Me:
Originally from the UK, Meher McArthur is a freelance Asian art historian, author and educator based in Los Angeles. Her current exhibition Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami is touring the US until the end of 2016. She worked for many years as Curator of East Asian Art at Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, and has collaborated with several Southern California museums and advised for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her books include Reading Buddhist Art: An Illustrated Guide to Buddhist Signs and Symbols (Thames & Hudson, 2002), The Arts of Asia: Materials, Techniques, Styles (Thames & Hudson, 2005), Confucius: A Throneless King (Pegasus Books, 2011), and An ABC of What Art Can Be (The Getty Museum, 2010) for kids. She has also written for The V&A Magazine, The Royal Academy Magazine and Fabrik.
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Ted Meyer's "Scarred for Life" series takes mono-prints directly off the skin of models who were scarred by an illness or injury.
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L.A.-based Japanese artist, Hirokazu Kosaka explores the concept of in-between spaces in his transformative pieces.
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Architect Ted Tanaka has built an elegant legacy in concrete, steel, and glass that has greatly enriched Los Angeles, Japan, and beyond.
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Artist and environmentalist Mary Wright's mixed-media watercolor paintings are inspired in part by the spontaneity and spirituality of Japanese sumi-e, or ink painting.
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L.A.-based artist Shizuko Greenblatt creates sculptural works informed by the flower arranging tradition of her native Japan.
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Lan-Chiann Wu's paintings are a unique cross pollination of traditional Chinese ink painting and Western artistic styles and techniques.
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Crafted meticulously from paper and mixed media, Tomczyk's chair sculptures tease the mind.
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Nepalese artist Hit Man Gurung's residency at 18th Street Arts Center offers a unique perspective on the devastating effects of war and globalization on this Himalayan nation.
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The works of three Japanese photographers, two in Japan and one here in Los Angeles, reflect the many changing realities of the Japanese experience on both sides of the Pacific during the mid-20th century.
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Here in Southern California, Tibetan artist Pema Namdol Thaye is translating a two-dimensional image of a mandala into a three-dimensional temple building to be built in Sikkim, India.
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Marjan K. Vayghan's "Legacy Crates," a series of transformed art shipping crates, symbolizes her journey from Iran, the land of her ancestry, and her transcultural life and identity in the U.S.
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Posted The Getty Looks East: A New Exhibition Connects Rubens and Korea Here in Los Angeles
in ArtboundThe exhibition presents an intricate study of a Europeans artist's curiosity about Asia and is the culmination of years of artistic and intellectual exchange between the U.S. and Korea. -
Over the last two decades, Iranian-American artist and curator HK Zamani has challenged the L.A. art world and beyond to reconsider how it creates, views, and values art.
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Pasadena-based artist Jane Park Wells explores the recent evolution of the social and political role of Korean women.
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2013 is the Chinese Year of the Snake, and a number of local artists are celebrating this much maligned creature in their work.
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At 102 years old, Tyrus Wong's prolific career as a motion picture illustrator is being recognized in an upcoming documentary film.
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Posted Virtual Buddhist Art Apprenticeships: Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo's Online Ancient Tibetan Spiritual Art Form
in ArtboundAn established artist in ancient Buddhist textile art, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo instructs students all around the world using such modern tools as pdf files, web cams and teleconferencing via Skype. -
Japanese American artist and writer, Stan Sakai draws on the multi-cultural artistic nexus that is Los Angeles, creating characters, settings and imagery that are Japanese, but whose lettering and narrative style originate mostly in the West.
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Seyburn Zorthian draws inspiration from Japanese Culture to create calligraphic abstractions that are dynamic visualizations of the energy created when cultures collide.
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Barbara A. Thomason spent five years depicting the freeways, rivers, restaurants, street signs, buildings, neighborhoods and landscapes that are familiar and dear to the people who call L.A. home.
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Julie Bagish creates rustic tea bowls and other earth-toned vessels of Japanese inspiration that overflow with a sense of playfulness.
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In the second installment of the "Japanese Accents" series, Meher McArthur examines the the cross-cultural fantasy artwork of Moira Hahn.
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Gajin Fujita is a Japanese American artist who has gained international acclaim for his dramatic paintings that blend the graffiti and hip-hop style that he grew up with in East L.A. and Japanese artistic traditions that form part of his family's cultural legacy.
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Ted Meyer's "Scarred for Life" series takes mono-prints directly off the skin of models who were scarred by an illness or injury.
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L.A.-based Japanese artist, Hirokazu Kosaka explores the concept of in-between spaces in his transformative pieces.
-
Architect Ted Tanaka has built an elegant legacy in concrete, steel, and glass that has greatly enriched Los Angeles, Japan, and beyond.
-
Artist and environmentalist Mary Wright's mixed-media watercolor paintings are inspired in part by the spontaneity and spirituality of Japanese sumi-e, or ink painting.
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L.A.-based artist Shizuko Greenblatt creates sculptural works informed by the flower arranging tradition of her native Japan.
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Lan-Chiann Wu's paintings are a unique cross pollination of traditional Chinese ink painting and Western artistic styles and techniques.
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Crafted meticulously from paper and mixed media, Tomczyk's chair sculptures tease the mind.
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Nepalese artist Hit Man Gurung's residency at 18th Street Arts Center offers a unique perspective on the devastating effects of war and globalization on this Himalayan nation.
-
The works of three Japanese photographers, two in Japan and one here in Los Angeles, reflect the many changing realities of the Japanese experience on both sides of the Pacific during the mid-20th century.
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Here in Southern California, Tibetan artist Pema Namdol Thaye is translating a two-dimensional image of a mandala into a three-dimensional temple building to be built in Sikkim, India.
