Gabriel Asoka - The Mazeking
Artist
With four decades of creative output and with over 1200 paintings, 2,000 photographic works, 3000 drawings, 40 cinematic (film) works, and over 70 songs written and 3 music albums, Asoka is a prolific creator. Here is a small selection of artworks for your viewing. As of 2022, Asoka no longer shows all his artwork online due to "ai" scanning.
PAINTINGS ON CANVAS
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTWORKS
STREET PUBLIC ARTWORKS
PHOTO-PAINTINGS ON PAPER
CINEMATIC WORKS & COLABORATIONS
DRAWINGS
Musical Works
Gabriel Asoka - The Mazeking
Brief Artist Bio
Gabriel Asoka, The Mazeking ( 飛龍 ) is an American artist born and raised in Maryland. For more than four decades Asoka has been creating his provocative and energetic works. Asoka started making art as a young child and has continued throughout his life. At age 7, he became interested in ancient philosophy and esoteric concepts, which continue to inspire & inform his works. At age 15, he started college classes around his high school schedule, studying science and philosophy. During this period Asoka was the lead singer and song writer for two bands, Dusty & The Dustmen and The Twiggy Love Band, recording three albums and performing over 50 live shows. After high school, Asoka briefly worked for a bank for several months before leaving to pursue work in the motion picture industry as a way of supporting himself and further exploring visual imagery; working on films including, Mars Attacks, Flags Of Our Fathers and Beautiful Daydreams. In 1998 he officially declared his career path as a painter and fine artist, and went on to produce a series of oil and acrylic paintings on canvas. In 2002, he had his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. In 2008, while traveling overseas in Asia, he had a NDE, afterwards changing his name as an act of renewal. Asoka utilizes various mediums in the process of creating works, including oil paint, acrylic paint, organic dyes, oil sticks, charcoal, gesso and handmade paper. His primary interest is imagery itself; and the exploration of his interest. Over the years, his art has been collected by private collectors from around the world. He currently lives and creates art overseas.Education:
MIT - Banking - Certificate
Columbia College - MA
Yale University (SP) - Art
University of Maryland - BFA
University of London/BFI (SP) - Film
Peabody Preparatory/JHU – Music Theory - Certificate
St. Johns College - Philosophy
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