This beautiful piece of work was hanging in my hair salon. The salon closed, and it's been in storage until now. It's was framed since 1994. I took it out of the frame in 2022 due to the poor condition of the frame. The frame was old and needed to be replaced. This poster is in great vintage condition. There are 2 photos before the print was removed from the frame.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. I have another Dennis Mukai available.  I would love to give this beautiful piece the perfect home. 

 Original Dennis Mukai Limited Edition Poster Signed by Dennis in 1994. This is a beautiful work of art from artist Dennis Mukai titled "Metropolis" “Julie” and published in 1990. This beautiful piece of art is in excellent vintage condition, and ready to hang in your home or office. It is signed by the artist on bottom right in pencil. Dennis Mukai is an internationally acclaimed artist, and is widely recognized for his published paintings of beautiful women. Many of his works have been featured in Playboy magazine. His work has garnered awards from the Society of Illustrators, the Creative Black Book, ADLA Print, and Communication Arts. 

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Biography:

Dennis Mukai was born in Hiroshima, Japan and raised in Southern California.  He is most widely recognized for his published portraits of beautiful women.  His subjects have included Pamela Anderson, Tia Carrere, Jennifer Flavin, Janet Jones Gretsky, Paula Barbieri, Kimberley Hefner, Mimi Rogers and Linda Sobek. As a contributing artist, these paintings were featured monthly in Playboy magazine throughout the 80's and 90's. His numerous one-man shows throughout the United States consistently sold out his original paintings, limited edition prints and posters.

 A graduate of Art Center College of Design and technically trained as an illustrator and graphic designer, Mukai's client list has included Levi's, Volvo, Honda, Coca-Cola, Mattel, Disney, the March of Dimes and DirecTV. His works have garnered awards from the Society of Illustrators, the Creative Black Book, ADLA, Print, and Communication Arts. 

Mukai crossed over into photography after his years of shooting the models for his paintings. Inspired by Edward Steichen, George Hurrell, and Albert Watson, artists in the past who have successfully made this transition, Mukai has been no exception in his ability to translate his vision into a different medium. In 1997, Mukai art directed and photographed the one-sheet for the Academy Award Winner for Best Live Action Short Film, Visas and Virtue. Focusing mainly on celebrity portraiture, his subjects have included Macy Grey, Ice T, Keanu Reeves, Kid Rock, Ziggy Marley, Robbie Robertson, T Bone Burnett and Duran Duran to name a few.

Early in his career Mukai had the honor of illustrating the cover for Playboy Jazz Festival.  Mukai was asked to design the official US-Japan Expo poster in 1996.  Freelancing as creative director and marketing advisor for ICON Shoes, Inc., from 1998 to 2000, he established the identity of this unique start up company featuring artists’ work on shoes. Mukai led the creative team for Progressive Beverages, Inc. in branding and bottle designs for HAN Asian Vodka and Kigen Sake. In 2005, Mukai was selected to create the official poster for the U.S. Tennis Open and the 107th Lunar Year Festival poster for Chinatown LA in 2006.  He has freelanced as creative director/graphic designer of Drymax Technologies Inc., for the past 12 years.

In recent years Mukai has successfully made yet another transition into the world of fine art. He unveiled his new works at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica at the Robert Berman Gallery in the summer of 2008. Often mistaken for photographs, Mukai’s new works are painstakingly created using only sandpaper to remove layers of paint to gradually reveal the white of the original surface, his own technique developed and perfected through trial & error. Inspired by primitive photos from the advent of photography, Dennis' realistic yet distressed images trigger the emotions of recollection. Renowned art critic, Peter Frank expresses, "Mukai's pictures manifest a reality that exists within our minds, a reflection, not on what we see or know, but how we see and know it." 

    
Technically uncompromising, maintaining a bold visual sense, yet communicating with a refined subtlety, Mukai's projects today offer him the opportunity to cohesively incorporate his talents as artist, designer and photographer.

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