About this book

Waves and Plagues: The Art of Masami Teraoka introduces an artist of singular imagination. Teraoka depicts the dramas of contemporary life, enlivening them with expressive details and nearly clandestine thoughts. Forty-four of the artist's challenging, meticulous, and intelligent paintings are presented in full-color illustrations. The Contemporary Museum in Hawaii and Long Beach Museum of Art in California had exhibitions in 1988 and 1989.