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Meher McArthur

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Meher McArthur is an independent Asian art historian and is Academic Curator at Scripps College, Claremont. Previously she was Curator of East Asian Art at Pacific Asia Museum (now USC PAM) and now curates exhibitions for Southern California galleries, En Gallery at the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden in Pasadena, and for the traveling exhibition company International Arts & Artists (IA&A), including Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami (2015-2019) and her upcoming exhibition, Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper (from 2021). She is developing YOKAI: Spirits, Specters and the Supernatural in Japanese Woodblock Prints for Scripps College (2022). 

Meher writes regularly for Buddhistdoor.net and contributes to KCET Artbound, Artillery and Orientations magazines. Her major publications include Gods and Goblins: Folk Paintings from Otsu (PAM, 1999), Reading Buddhist Art (Thames & Hudson, 2002) and The Arts of Asia (Thames & Hudson, 2005), Confucius (Pegasus Books, 2011), Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami (IA&A, 2012), New Expressions in Origami Art (Tuttle, 2017), and An ABC of What Art Can Be (The Getty Museum, 2010). 
 

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Ted Tokio Tanaka: Meeting Architectural Challenges with a Global Vision
Architect Ted Tanaka has built an elegant legacy in concrete, steel, and glass that has greatly enriched Los Angeles, Japan, and beyond.
Where Spontaneity Meets Sanity: The Ethereal Watercolors of Mary Wright
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.
"Breeze" (Fusion Ikebana series) by Shizuko Greenblatt, 2008; mixed media sculpture, 22" x 32.5" x 13". | Courtesy of the artist.
Floral Fusion: The Ikebana Sculptures of Shizuko Greenblatt
L.A.-based artist Shizuko Greenblatt creates sculptural works informed by the flower arranging tradition of her native Japan.
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Contemplating Home in the Paintings of Lan-Chiann Wu
Lan-Chiann Wu's paintings are a unique cross pollination of traditional Chinese ink painting and Western artistic styles and techniques.
"Lucian Freud" by Vincent Tomczyk, 2013, paper & mixed media, 32 x 34 x 48 inches; Private Collection. | Courtesy of the artist.
Common Fragility: Vincent Tomczyk's Paper Chairs
Crafted meticulously from paper and mixed media, Tomczyk's chair sculptures tease the mind.
Documenting Exodus: Hit Man Gurung and Nepal's Departing Youth
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Japan's Photographers Reflect the Realities of a Changing World
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.
Blue Print of the Shi-tro Mandala Temple by Pema Namdol Thaye, 2013, ink on paper. | Courtesy of the artist.
The Architecture of Enlightenment: Pema Namdol Thaye
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.
Fleeing the Rose Garden: Marjan K. Vayghan Creates Safe Spaces in Los Angeles
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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The Getty Looks East: A New Exhibition Connects Rubens and Korea Here in Los Angeles
The 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.
Day and Night by HK Zamani, 2006 7, diptych, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and CB1 Gallery
Defying Definition: The Multi-Dimensional Art of HK Zamani
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.
Serpentine 2013: L.A. Artists Celebrate the Year of the Snake
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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