things to write home about

Fendi Act 3 - Jonathan Swanz

2012-01-25T13:59:00.000-08:00

The department continues our partnership with Fendi in 2012. To start off the year, MFA Jonathan Swanz is the selected UHM artist to show his glass works at the Waikiki Fendi. Nadine Kam covers the show and champagne toast in Fashion Tribe.

10% of proceeds from related Fendi receptions will be donated to the department.

Mary Babcock News

2012-01-18T12:01:00.000-08:00

Mary Babcock, Faculty member and Graduate Chair included in EAST/PACIFIC/WEST: CONFLUENCE

Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Center for the Arts, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ

January 30 - March 9
Gallery talk: Thu., February 9, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Reception: February 9, 5-7 p.m.
Lecture: February 9, 7 p.m., Recital Hall

Featuring the works of Claire Campbell Park, Nancy Tokar Miller and Mary Babcock representing a merging of East, Pacific and West influences, in relation to their response to the natural world around the Hawaiian Islands and to their underlying creative philosophy.

BFA alum Carl Lindstrom news

2012-01-15T12:19:00.000-08:00

The Unisex Circle Scarf from American Apparel on Vimeo.

BFA alum Carl Lindstrom continues to be a commercial photographer in LA. Clients include American Apparel. See his website for more.

Art and Sustainability / Akihiko Izukura

2012-01-13T18:45:00.000-08:00

Art and Sustainability

Lecture by renowned textile artist Akihiko Izukura
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 6:30pm / ART building auditorium

reception to follow lecture

To open his exhibit Life in Color at the Commons Gallery and outdoor pieces on McCarthy Mall, Akihiko Izukura will be giving a lecture to share his philosophy and approach to art based on three guiding principles:

“compassion for life” 思いやりの美学
“zero-waste” 廃棄物ゼロ
“sun and water circulation” 太陽と水の循環

Wendy Kawabata at Visual Arts Center (Boise)

2012-01-13T10:39:00.000-08:00

Faculty member Wendy Kawabata included in Cutting Edge: Contemporary Paper

The exhibition features the work of ten contemporary visual artists that utilize cut paper as a primary medium to create two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks.

Visual Arts Center, Gallery 2 (Boise State University Art Department)
Curated by Kirsten Furlong and Janice Neri
January 31st - March 23rd, 2012
Opening Reception: February 3rd, 2012 6-8pm

Image: Wendy Kawabata, The Ascetic (detail), 30" x 22", handmade pin perforations in paper, 2011

Curatorial Project by Liam Davis

2012-01-07T14:57:00.000-08:00

STEPHEN HILGER /Hotel California
Exhibition curated by MFA alum Liam Davis and HP Garcia
January 4 to 28, 2012
at MUSE | CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE
580 Eighth Avenue @ 38th Street, 7th Floor, NYC

Linda Kane and Noreen Naughton at Andrew Rose Gallery

2012-01-07T13:44:00.000-08:00

UHM Alum Noreen Naughton was the augural artist of Honolulu's new and impressive ANDREW ROSE GALLERY. If you have missed Noreen's show make sure you don't miss ARG's second exhibition, a solo entitled NĀ MAHINA I HALA by alum and lecturer Linda Kane.

artist statement ~

The paper is a battle ground
where history, memory, loss and renewal
struggle for dominance.
The resulting palimpsest is a metaphor
for the conflict between fading memory
and the need to remember.

January 13 - February 24, 2012
Artist's reception / FIRST FRIDAY, February 3, 6:00 - 8:00PM
at Bishop Square - Pauahi Tower
1003 Bishop Square, Suite 120, Ground Floor

UHM folks in 2012 Schaefer Portrait Challenge

2012-01-07T13:37:00.000-08:00

If you are on Maui, check out the Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2012 at the Maui Arts and Culture Center (January 11 – March 11). A few of our folks' work is included - Linda Kane, Boz Schurr, and Kirsten Rae Simonsen. Sorry if we missed anyone.

Emily McIlroy at Hawai'i Pacific University Art Gallery

2012-01-06T15:36:00.000-08:00

Shadows to Shallows

a solo exhibition by Emily McIlroy

January 22 to March 2, 2012

opening reception: January 22 from 4 to 6pm

Hawai'i Pacific University Art Gallery

McIlroy's artist statement: With the loss of a loved one, once fixed horizons become unmoored, passages between points in time collapse, and concealed specters suddenly emerge. The works in this exhibition invoke the ocean and its underwater forces and life forms to conjure this world of uncertain space and immeasurable time.

Untethered to the familiar physics of everyday life, these pieces seek to explore a realm that moves between inner and outer experience, between the recognizable and the outlandish, between a sense of saturation in materiality and a longing for what is not and cannot be. Suspended somewhere between the shadows and the surface, my work suggests entry into a world that is as unstable and sinister as it is suffused with hope for healing—an alien, wayward realm in which all is lost, and anything is possible.

Hurray for UH Design

2012-01-03T14:19:00.000-08:00

In 2011 the UH Design Program continued to receive local, national and international recognition for excellence in graphic design.

In September, the UHM Design Workshop won a first place award in the “Environmental/Sustainability” professional category at the national AIGA Re-Design Awards in Los Angeles. AIGA (Re)designAwards is a distinct international design competition and premier awards event that recognizes the importance and excellence of sustainable and socially responsible work. The project, the new identity for the UH School of Architecture, was designed by UHM students winners were: Adine Close, John Cruz, Hao-In Kuan, Yonghao. It was art-directed by Professor Anne Bush.

In November, the Honolulu chapter of the AIGA (the professional organization for design) held its biennial “Hawaii’s 5-0” design awards—a competition judged by three nationally-renowned design judges. UHM design students not only took two of the top three awards, but the judges felt that the design education in the state was so strong, they added two more awards (honorable mentions) that also went to UHM design students. A design by Professor Anne Bush was recognized as one of the top five winners in the professional category. UHM students winners were: Adine Close, John Cruz, Hao-In Kuan, Yonghao Yan, Joe Abad, Will Baron, Jeff Gress, Allison Hanabusa, Matt Higa, Chris Lee, Charis Peich, and Lenibelle Suetos.

In December the UHM Design Workshop was recognized again when the identity system for the UH School of Architecture was recognized in the Print Magazine Regional Design Annual. It was one of only 421 professional winners selected from 2,536 submissions from around the country and was the only design from the entire state of Hawai‘i that was recognized. It was published in the December issue of the
magazine.

Also in December, Professor Anne Bush was recognized by the New York Art Director’s Club as a winner in their 2011 international design competition. Judged by an international panel of the world’s most respected creative professionals, the ADC Annual Awards competition, now in its 90th year, honors the best work from around the world in interactive media, broadcast and print advertising, graphic design, publication design, packaging, photography and illustration. Winning for “Environmental Design,” she was only of only 16 winners in this category and one of only 6 from the United States. The winners were published this month in the Art Director’s Club Annual 90. Anne was invited to present her work in a public lecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in October.

Sheri Lyles Solo in India

2012-01-03T14:03:00.000-08:00

The Lotus Eaters

A solo exhibition by MFA student Sheri Lyles

Location: Jawahar Kala Kendra / Jaipur, Rajasthan

January 3-6, 2012 from 11am to 5pm
Opening Reception: January 2nd, 2012

MFA student Sheri Lyles has spent four months in India studying traditional and organic agriculture by spending time on at Navdanya farm and conservation center in Dehradun and by visiting industrial and traditional textiles companies that use cotton as their raw material. Her past career as a cardiovascular technologist fueled her interest in human issues related to health and the environment and continues to feed into her work as an artist. She observes that most people in the US not knowing the origin of their food and clothing, nor hold the knowledge of sewing or cooking from raw materials, results of a ready-made culture, have become a source of lack for social responsibility as well as a huge loss of important skills and cultural traditions. Her time in India will be incorporated into her MFA thesis work , where she is comparing the past and present histories of India and the US with the desire to reconnect us and bring awareness to these types of global social-environmental issues ones that are rapidly becoming global concerns.

In The Lotus Eaters Lyles presents five works incorporating non-traditional materials such as thread, clay, turmeric, puja pigments and henna applied on handmade cotton paper. Her previous painting, done in Hawaii, incorporated fabric, thread, pyrography and watercolor paint applied to cotton paper on a small scale. Her new work done at Studio Sukriti has allowed her to work on a larger scale and with new materials previously unavailable to her. They are essentially inspired by the beautiful textures and colors she has admired so much in Rajasthan. More of her past works incorporated used garments which were set on a 2 dimensional framework. This previous work and her four months of agricultural and textile research in India led to her to create this current body of work in which she is working with refuse fabric scraps and shreds sewn onto a set of 5 oversized lotus flowers that create a colorful and surreal garden setting one can become part of. The title, The Lotus Eaters, is drawn from a 19th century poem written by Lord Tennyson. It is based on the Odyssey of Homer, 856BC story of a people who lived on a small island. Continuously intoxicated from their incessant consumption of the lotus pods, they became apathetic and careless of the world around them.

For more information visit Sheri Lyles' blog, including coverage of her exhibition in a number of newspapers in India.

Lyles' travel has been funded by a generous grant from the Watamull foundation through the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i and also by an award from the Geraldine Clark Fellowship Fund in Painting.

Maika'i Tubbs news

2012-01-03T13:51:00.000-08:00

BFA alumni Maika'i Tubbs has been awarded a full scholarship for a 2- month residency at the prestigious Banff Centre.

Megan Bent at RayKo in San Francisco

2012-01-02T18:11:00.001-08:00

Megan Bent is included in RayKo’s 5th Annual International Juried
PLASTIC CAMERA SHOW
January 18th — March 6th, 2012

Opening reception / Wednesday, January 18th, 6-8pm

428 Third Street | San Francisco, CA 94107 | 415.495.3773
gallery@raykophoto.com | www.raykophoto.com
Mon: Closed | Tues–Thurs: 10a–10p | Fri–Sun: 10a–8p

Dieter Runge's opening show "The 14 Stations of the Cross"

2011-12-07T14:10:00.000-08:00

MFA alum Dieter Runge's solo exhibition "14 Stations of the Cross" at the Church of the Epiphany opens on Thursday, December 15th at 6PM. The reception will be accompanied by the music of Donald Matsumori, who will perform "Jesus comforts the women of Jerusalem" from Le Chemin de la Croix, op.99, pour orgue, by Marcel Dupre. The event will finish with the blessing of the stations by The Rev. David Jackson.

Church of the Epiphany
1041 Tenth Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96816

James Jack recent project in Japan

2011-12-07T02:49:00.000-08:00

MA alum James Jack is currently participating in an art residency in Shodo Island, Japan. His project Sunset House is his most notable project to date. Stories and memories of local people will revitalize the walls and floors of Sunset House, to become a permanent installation in the region. To find out more visit http://jamesjack.org/blog/sunset-house/

Nicole Naone's new mural

2011-12-06T22:53:00.000-08:00

BFA student Nicole Naone's new mural on Hotel Street, nestling snuggly between thirtyninehotel and NextDoor.

Lew Andrew's new book on Edward Weston and Jean Charlot

2011-11-21T23:05:00.000-08:00

Announcing the publication of faculty member Lew Andrew's new book, Weston and Charlot: Art and Friendship.

Edward Weston (1886–1958) was one of the most celebrated photographers of the twentieth century. Jean Charlot (1898–1979), a classically trained French artist best known for his murals, woodcuts, and paintings celebrating Mexican culture, played a key role as a participant and chronicler of the Mexican Renaissance. This book, based on letters that Weston and Charlot exchanged from the early 1920s until Weston’s death in 1958, documents a friendship that says as much about art—about photography and fresco, practice, criticism, and history—as it does about the intersection of a number of fascinating characters, the ups and downs of the correspondents’ daily lives, the pursuit of their dreams and aspirations, and the support and encouragement they gave each other.

Lew Andrews crafts a multivalent narrative that reconfigures our understanding of Weston, Charlot, and their era, shedding new light on specific events and artwork. While giving us rare insight into the everyday life of these artists, this work also supplies an important chapter in the history of twentieth-century art and photography, seen close up and from the inside.

Weston Lambert

2011-11-21T01:00:00.000-08:00

New glass sculptures by alum Weston Lambert at Oracle 113 Gallery (New York City, New York)

New Sculpture by Karen Lucas at Keone‘ula Elementary School

2011-11-21T00:22:00.000-08:00

The Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts dedicated a bronze sculpture by alum Karen Lucas at Keone‘ula Elementary School in Ewa Beach, Oahu. The sculpture entitled, “KEONE‘ULA,” was created as part of the SFCA Artists in Residence Program.

Lucas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1956. She attended the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Liberal Arts in 1980. Karen went on to pursue a Master of Arts degree in Art Therapy from the University of New Mexico, which she received in 1984, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in 1998. Hawai‘i has been her home since 1991.

Dustin Miyakawa published

2011-10-30T23:47:00.000-07:00

Dustin Miyakawa is writer AND photographer of a 2-part article featuring the East West Ceramics Collaboration for Monthly Ceramic Art (Korea) http://www.cerazine.co.kr/

Yida Wang in "Across the Divide"

2011-10-27T03:07:00.000-07:00

Associate Professor Yida Wang was selected to a group traveling exhibitions entitled "Across the Divide" at University of Wisconsin Whitewater and University of Texas at Austin.

Curator and critics Chris Miles brings together a diverse group of contemporary Chinese artist faculty who are currently working in academia across the United States, and their works are informed by cross-cultural explorations.

OFF hours art demonstration workshop makes the News!

2011-10-14T20:21:00.000-07:00

Art demonstration workshop takes aim at APEC

Artists and activists met to explore the word "demonstration" at AlternaAPEC, a program organized by Jaimey Hamilton. The gathering was led by Mary Babcock and Gaye Chan, and joined by Andrea Charuk, Ryan Shultz and Rex Vlcek. Sign painting, stitching, crocheting and screenprinting were some of the activities that brought together members of the community wanting to question and challenge the upcoming APEC conference at the beginning of November. See coverage on Hawaii News.

Silent Lucidity solo exhibition by Jessica Orfe at Gallery on the Pali

2011-10-14T15:03:00.000-07:00

Elements from dreams collected over a period of months underlays Orfe's exhibition Silent Lucidity. Narratives of unconscious apprehension suggest the absurdity and variation of individual conscious experience, interweaving dreams and real life.

Gallery on the Pali

First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, 2500 Pali Highway

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 22 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm

The show will run October 15 - November 3,

(Gallery hours weekdays 10am-6pm, weekends 2pm-6pm, Thursday evenings to 8pm)

To the Nines Exhibition at the TCM's Cafe Gallery

2011-09-21T20:01:00.000-07:00

To the Nines is a small look at the work of the students from this summer's first internship course at The Contemporary Museum. The work covers a variety of media and topics, from Reid Tabata's bronze abstraction to the solitude of Aaron Nicholson's “Exhale.” The work of Sonia Castro and Ualani Davis both carry a sensitivity and strength with their own unique personal visions. Gideon Gerlt's sculpture seems caught in ether and decay as corrosion sets in. Yumiko Glover's pop-inspired take on Japanese subculture plays on boundaries between reality and fantasy. Heather Matsuura's small figures quietly ask to be discovered, playing in the surrounding space. Brandon Ng utilizes the intensity of his eye, eloquently capturing his subject matter through a lens. Mapping environments in 4 dimensions Rex Vlcek uses capsules of the mundane and often overlooked: dust.

Come visit The Contemporary Café Gallery and indulge in fine food and Fine Art!

For more information please contact Deborah Nehmad, curator, at inquiry@deborahnehamd.com.

To the Nines
September 20 – October 31, 2011
The Contemporary Café at Honolulu Academy of Arts/Spalding House
2411 Makiki Heights Drive
Café Hours: Tuesday to Saturday: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, Sunday: 12:00 noon to 2:30 pm
Phone number: 536-1322

Betsy Curtis solo show opening " The Visitors" at Hawaii Pacific University

2011-09-20T20:00:00.000-07:00

Betsy Curtis, MFA student is showing solo this coming Sunday, September 25 at Hawaii Pacific University Art Gallery in Kaneohe. The opening reception will be from 4:00pm - 6:00pm.

"The Visitors" is a project where Curtis photographed willing visitors to the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Waimea Bay Beach Park and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. While people are dressed in street clothes, their body poses reference the formal Victorian portraiture conventions.
Hawaii Pacific University Art Gallery
45-045 Kamehameha Hwy
Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744

Show runs September 25- November 11
Gallery Hours: Mon-Sat, 8am-5pm

Graphic Design Workshop wins prestigious international award

2011-09-20T19:29:00.000-07:00

The UH Design Workshop has won the First Place Award for Environmental/Sustainability at the 2011 international AIGA (Re)Design Awards. The winning design project is an identity system for the UH Mānoa School of Architecture and uses recycled paper, carbon-neutral printing, and a single press sheet to reduce paper waste.

According to the AIGA website, “The AIGA (Re)Design Awards is an international design competition and premier awards event that recognizes the importance and excellence of sustainable and socially responsible work.”

The UH Mānoa Graphic Design Program initiated the UH Design Workshop in Spring of 2008. The special studio, run by advanced Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) graphic design students with faculty supervision, is committed to providing high-quality graphic design work for non-profit organizations in Hawai‘i.

Earlier projects that the Design Workshop have undertaken include yearly planners for UH Health Services, an annual report for the State of Hawai‘i Environmental Council, and the visual identities of UH Mānoa’s School of Architecture and Hawai‘i Nature Center.

Although the studio is only three years old, all completed projects have won local or national recognition. They include awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (Hawai‘i Chapter), the American Advertising Federation (Hawai‘i Chapter), and HOW Magazine, a national publication showcasing outstanding work in graphic design.

In 2010, the project designed for the UH Mānoa School of Architecture was selected as one of 28 semi-finalists, from over 600 international applicants, for the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and will be showcased in the Print Magazine Regional Design Annual in November 2011. The annual national competition/publication recognizes outstanding graphic design.

Kait Rhoads at UHM for Fall 2011

2011-09-16T15:47:00.000-07:00

UH Manoa welcomes Kait Rhoads, visiting glass artist from Seattle. Check out her work at the Art Building sculpture window, her resume site, and a description of her practice on the Fine Art Associate site!

Rhoads presented her works to art students and faculty recently. Her connection to the water started very early in her life, scuba diving and living for six years in a boat. Since then, she has found in glass the expression that connects her with water.

ARTvocating for UH Art

2011-09-14T20:30:00.000-07:00

ARTvocate is a new group comprised of students whose mission is to represent the department at outreach events and they are off to a great start! They just had their first official event at the Academic and Student Services Fair, where over 100 High School counselors came to the University's Fair. The ARTvocates prepared a slide show, a hand painted sign and gave information about our great department. They even made a few contacts for future projects. It couldn't have gone smoother!

A big thanks goes to Eva Enriquez, Brady Evans, Heather Matsuura and Ryan Shultz!

Wendy Kawabata

2011-09-14T16:21:00.000-07:00

Wendy Kawabata, Associate Professor in Drawing and Painting, is spending her sabbatical making and showing her artwork across the globe. This summer she was an artist in residence at the Nes in Skagastrond Iceland. Some of the work produced at the residency will be shown in exhibitions in the US. A solo exhibition, Acts, at Haas Gallery of Art in Bloomsburg University Pennsylvania. And a group show Paper Exhibition at Las Manos Gallery in Chicago.

Maya Portner awarded an Artist in Residency in India

2011-09-07T19:37:00.000-07:00

MFA alum Maya Portner has been awarded an Artist in Residency at CHHAPP - Foundation for Printmaking Trust, in Gujarat, India. Portner will be in residence from November and December 2011.

ART students performing in Berlin

2011-09-05T15:31:00.000-07:00

4 students, Eva Enriquez, Sheri Lyles, Jessica Orfe & Rex Vlcek participated in IPAH Summercamp and Platform Young Performance Artists 2011 in Berlin. The workshops took place at one of the last remaining buildings on former East side of Berlin. The old military warehouse with high ceilings, graffiti walls and its surroundings offered a variety of spaces for the practice of performance.

All students performed as part of the workshop but Jessica Orfe and Rex Vlcek's works were chosen as featured performances. Orfe's "Phasis" was approached from the her background on dance to address a dream. Vlcek collaborated with two other artists, Tabea Hornlein & Beate Linne, in "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" a social intervention that invited to discussion on what is performance art.

Orvis Artist in Residence Robert Reed

2011-08-16T12:32:00.000-07:00

Robert Reed's artist residency at Honolulu Academy just ended. Reed is the last of four graduate students who were awarded ORVIS AIR this academic year.

Reed maintained a diary of sorts on the HAA blog during his residency there, and will be presenting a performance at Linekona for the Thirst show on September 4.

UHart PARTNERS WITH FENDI followup

2011-08-15T13:52:00.000-07:00

This is a followup to an earlier blog post regarding UHart's partnership with FENDI.

The events were a great success and covered thoroughly in an article by Nadine Kam. Alums artists Eli Baxter and Aaron Padilla both produced stunning displays that fit FENDI's theme of Fatto A Mano.

A huge thanks goes to Dean Christopher's (another former student) for his tireless work to bring it to fruition, and for dreaming up this idea in the first place, including that 20% of the private events sales goes to benefit our department.

Travis Seifman receives $4,000 scholarship

2011-08-12T13:50:00.000-07:00

MA student Travis Seifman receives $4,000 scholarship from the Society of Asian Art of Hawai’i.

UHM Furniture Design Challenge at DWR

2011-08-10T18:58:00.000-07:00

UH Furniture Design Challenge
Thursday, August 25, 6-8pm
DWR Honolulu Studio

Ala Moana Shopping Center - Top level next to Nordstrom

Support the future of design at DWR. Check out the innovative designs from the UHM art students in ART 358 with David Landry. A panel from the local design community will be judging the submissions during the event, and the winners will be announced at the end of the evening. Wine, refreshments, and pupu will be served. Admission is free.

RSVP by August 20 to clee@dwr.com

Gorey Exhibition Catalogue Now Available

2011-08-09T19:25:00.000-07:00

Gorey Exhibition Catalogue Now Available at the Gallery and via the gallery website, under publications

Country Living for Everyone - Kirsten Simonsen

2011-08-04T10:33:00.000-07:00

Country Living for Everyone
A charming new home with an aged, old world appearance...

A solo exhibition by Kirsten Rae Simonsen,
explores the fantasies embodied in Hawai‘i’s mock Tudor and French Norman cottage-style homes.

August 22-September 2, 2011 (open daily from 7 AM-9 PM)
Opening reception Monday August 22, 5:30-7:30 PM

at Academy Art Center at Linekona - 1111 Victoria Street

Artist talk August 18, 6-7 PM, 39 Hotel
(sponsored by [OFF] hrs & Jaimey Hamilton)

more about Country Living for Everyone:
The original idea behind the growth of suburbia in the UK and the United States was that it was meant to be "country living for everyone." Suburban homes initially were meant to recall the experience of the English country cottage: a lovely, calm retreat from the chaos of the city. In Hawai’i, during the 1920s, immigration from the West Coast of the United States increased drastically, and many new middle class homes were built in the Mock Tudor English cottage style that was popular on the mainland. These English Tudor (and sometimes French Norman) cottages spoke to an especially odd and incongruent fantasy: that of the American immigrant bringing "olde England" to Hawai’i. The fantasy was doubly strange, as the Tudor revival style was artificial and invented to begin with, even in the UK. This exhibition will explore that fantasy…how did these immigrants envision Hawai’i? What possessed them to build English and French Norman cottages here? How did they see their role in their new adopted home in the islands?

Emily McIlroy - MFA Thesis Exhibition

2011-07-31T18:43:00.000-07:00

Between Two Waters, Emily McIlroy's MFA Thesis Exhibition, will be on display from August 29-September 9 at the Commons Gallery. A reception will be held in conjunction with the opening of the UH Manoa Faculty Exhibition on Sunday, September 4 from 3-5pm.

News on Marion Cadora

2011-07-29T16:51:00.000-07:00

MA student Marion Cadora's project “Re-historicizing Contemporary Pacific Island Art” is featured in ARTstor's blog showcasing new interdisciplinary teaching ideas using ARTstor.

ARTstor offers more than 1 million images for your study and research, and has been growing fast by adding more collections and features. I plan to conduct a few ARTstor workshops in the beginning of semester, which will cover some new features they have added such as the search filtering system. Please stay informed, and encourage your colleagues and students to attend.

Intersections Presents: Emre Hüner - Save the Dates!

2011-07-25T19:39:00.000-07:00

Intersections and Shangri La Presents: Emre Hüner
in residence from August 11-26, 2011.

Public Art Lecture:
UHM Art Building Auditorium
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 @ 6 pm

Video Screening:

thirtyninehotel
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 @ 6 pm

Both events are FREE

Emre Hüner was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1977. He is known for his drawing and animation installations of futuristic, fantastical, layered worlds. In his highly acclaimed video animation Panoptikon (2005), plants emerge as sensate beings that seem to take over the world. The imagery -- culled from the internet, books, photos, films and more -- comments on the relationship of our natural, technological, and political worlds. His aesthetic language expresses this relationship through the juxtaposition of man-made scientific objects and nature. He has exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial (2007); Manifesta 7 (2008); the New Museum’s Younger than Jesus (2009), Apex Art (2009), Stroom den Hague (2010).

More info

Bud Spindt - The Gallery at the Ward Center

2011-07-25T19:33:00.000-07:00

An exhibition of Bud Spindi's new sculptural works in glass opens at the Gallery at Ward Centre on July 31st, from 2pm - 5pm. Exhibition runs until August 25, 2011.

1200 Ala Moana Boulevard
(808) 597-8034
Open Mon-Wed, Fri-Sat 10am-8pm; Thu 9am-5pm;

UHart PARTNERS WITH FENDI

2011-07-14T16:02:00.000-07:00

UHart PARTNERS WITH FENDI

FENDI launchs Fatto a Mano, a design-focus platform in Hawai‘i, with UHart featuring MFA alumni Eli Baxter and Aaron Padilla .

Selected competitively among a pool of UHart alums and current MFA students, Baxter and Padilla will work intimately with FENDI’s Craftsmen from Rome on site at two FENDI Honolulu locations. Jointly they will build, cut, assemble, sew, and create contemporary design pieces that fuse each artistss concepts with FENDI’s style and materials.

Eli Baxter’s cerebral installations consisting of recycled bicycle tire rubber and FENDI Selleria leather explores scientific and philosophical concepts while focusing on raw materials and handcrafted details. Eli creates spatial experiences through her conical, floral and intricate ‘creature-like’ installations that cleverly mix her modern methods with Italian artisanship.

Aaron Padilla manipulates natural wood segments into elegant woven and knotted sculptures. By constructing and deconstructing these pieces, Aaron organically incorporates FENDI Selleria leather to create modern designs with mixed textures.

EVENT DATES/LOCATIONS:

Eli Baxter at FENDI Ala Moana – August 12, 12-6 + August 13, 12-8
Aaron Padilla at FENDI Royal Hawaiian – August 14, 12-6 + August 15, 12-8
In honor of Baxter and Padilla's alma mater, 20% of the private events sales will benefit our department.

Kirsten Simonsen in Drawing Expanse

2011-07-07T16:18:00.000-07:00

Kirsten Simonsen in Drawing Expanse at Space for Art, San Diego
June 11-July 17, 2011

Curated by David White & Karen McGuire, the exhibition is an overview of the expansive potential of drawing in the contemporary art practice. Drawing continues to evolve as a medium, encompassing flat work, sculpture, performance, photography and video. From the most traditional, to the most experimental, all forms of drawing share the common language of mark making, gesture, notation, and line. Drawing Expanse will illuminate the myriad ways in which drawing continues to influence and affect us.

East-West Ceramics Collaboration V

2011-07-06T17:29:00.000-07:00

East-West Ceramics Collaboration V
For the fifth time, the UHM Ceramics Program brings together international ceramics professionals for four-weeks at UH Mānoa's ceramics facility. Please join us for the following events:

Pacific Rim Artist Presentations

Thursday July 14, 2011; 7 pm
Richard Parker (New Zealand)
Vipoo Srivilasa (Thailand and Australia)
Sin-ying Ho (Hong Kong, USA)
Chang Ching-Yuan (Taiwan)

Tuesday July 19, 2011; 7 pm
NamSook Chang (Korea)
Ayumi Shigematsu (Japan)
Garth Johnson (USA)

Thursday July 21 2011; 7 pm
Ian Johnston (Canada)
Rosario Guillermo (Mexico)
Inchin Lee (Korea)

Tuesday July 26, 2011; 7 pm
Simone Fraser (Australia)
Zhang Jingjing (People's Republic of China)
Brad Taylor (USA)
Suzanne Wolfe (USA)

All artist presentations will be held at the UHM Center for Korean Studies auditorium. (Please note this change of venue from previous years. The auditorium at the Art Building is undergoing repairs.)

East-West Ceramics Open House
Saturday July 30, 2011
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Art Building Ceramics Courtyard
meet the artists and discuss the ceramic works in progress

All events are free and open to the public; parking fees may apply
for information - Suzanne Wolfe at 956-5264 or swolfe@hawaii.edu

Take, Leave, Whatevas...

2011-06-29T19:13:00.000-07:00

Professor and Department Chair Gaye Chan's collaborative Eating in Public is featured in "Take, Leave... Whatevas" by Richard Morse, Honolulu Weekly (June 29, 2011)

Kandi Everett at Fishcake

2011-06-28T14:49:00.000-07:00

Alum Kandi Everett has an upcoming solo at Fishcake at 307c Kamani Street

July 7 to August 20, 2011

reception thurs, july 7 from 6 to 8pm

Jacqueline Rush Lee

2011-06-27T14:08:00.000-07:00

Jacqueline Rush Lee's work was prominently featured in Flux Hawaii's October 2010 issue. Check it out!

more Kumi Nakajima News

2011-06-27T14:00:00.001-07:00

An interview of MFA student Kumi Nakajima speaking about her exhibition at thirtyninehotel will be aired by Hawaii Public Radio's program starting June 27 at The Conversation.

Kumi is also presenting an artist talk at Tokyo University for the Arts on June 28th, 2011 @ 7pm- 8pm (Tokyo timezone) - Center Hall (Chuo hall) 3F, meeting room.

Aaron Padilla Solo at Bethel Street Gallery

2011-06-18T19:39:00.000-07:00

Aaron Padilla Solo at Bethel Street Gallery

June 23 to July 29, 2011

Liam Davis curates his first New York City exhibition

2011-06-17T15:16:00.000-07:00

MFA alum Liam Davis co-curates "NEW YORK TEMPORARY: The City Through Photography, Film and Video" with HP Garcia at the New York Center of Photography and The moving Image

21 June - 12 August 2011

June / July Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 1 - 6 PM

August Hours: Tuesday through Friday 1 - 5 PM

Opening Reception: Wednesday, 22 June 2011 | 7 - 10 PM

From Modern grid-bound architecture to voyeuristic impressions of apartment dwellers to massive men and women girded in office attire to the subway underworld, the photographs of “New York Temporary” reveal an ever-changing panorama of New York life. From extremes of wealth and poverty to nuanced interactions between people and spaces, New York City reveals her most basic character beyond the skyline.

Curators Liam Davis and H.P. Garcia bring together a diverse group of artists who document and interpret the city and her many moods, impressions and expressions, to create a portrait that unfolds in glimpses. They speak of the city in our time from myriad angles and vantage points, reflecting intensity, callousness at times, and an unending propensity for transformation.

580 Eighth Avenue @ 38 Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10018 T 212.354.3825

Steve Coy interviewed in Bad at Sports

2011-06-17T15:04:00.000-07:00

MFA alum Steve Coy is given extensive air time by Bad at Sports, a national blog on contemporary art about his collaborative Hygenic Dress League based in Detroit. Coy talks about HDL's growing street presence in Detroit's urban landscape and upcoming interventions.

Check it out.

Scott Groeniger - Hui No'eau

2011-06-15T15:56:00.000-07:00

Scott Groeniger was selected by Hui No'eau for Solo Exhibition
June 18 – July 23, 2011

Hui No‘eau accepts applications annually for artists to exhibit a complete body of work in the Hui gallery. The Solo Exhibition is one of the only exhibitions in the state that provides the unique opportunity for artists to be personally involved in all facets of exhibition planning and installation of artwork. Maui artists Sidney Yee and Kevin Omuro present the “turnip” as a means to explore paint and clay with aesthetic awareness, while Honolulu-based artist Scott Groeniger explores transformed landscapes depicted by China’s rapid industrial revolution.

Television coverage of Groeniger's solo.

Hui No'eau Blog entry

Raku Ho'olaule'a report

2011-06-07T09:18:00.000-07:00

Our Ceramics group just returned from Hawaii Craftsmen's annual Raku Ho'olaule'a, a gathering of local ceramic artists, which culminates in a juried exhibition featured at Mark's Garage. Seven UH artists were included in the exhibition, Daven Hee (UH group leader and UH alum), recent MFA graduate Adam Stratton and the two student leaders, Chad Steve and Dustin Miyakawa. Lauren Jo took top honors, winning the annual Award for Excellence. She will be leaving for graduate school at Alfred University this fall.

Dustin Miyakawa wrote, "It wasn't the easiest weekend, camping out and firing in a thunderstorm. Everyone's tents got flooded or blew over in the wind. Our last pieces came out at around 5AM on Sunday morning after firing straight through the night."

The exhibition will be on view at Mark's Garage from June 8 to 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 10. The show will feature a community kiln on Slow Art Friday, the 17th of June, where UH students will join other Hawaii Craftsmen members to fire teabowls in a demonstration downtown.

photos by Dustin Miyakawa

Clifford Cheng wins 2011 Pele's best of show

2011-06-06T17:58:00.000-07:00

Alum Clifford Cheng was awarded the Best of Show at the 2011 Pele Award for his work as designer of the "Hawaii Skin Diver Magazine". The panel of judges reviewed numerous editions of the magazine and noted its consistently outstanding design, and that Cheng's work is "beautifully done, to every last detail."

see star advertiser review

Puni Kukahiko and Maika'i Tubbs

2011-06-04T12:29:00.001-07:00

Alumni Puni Kukahiko and Maika'i Tubbs are two of the four artists featured in This IS Hawai'i, an collaboration between Transformer Gallery and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington DC). Curated by Isabella E. Hughes, the exhibition explores indigenous Hawaiian history and its intersection with contemporary society.

May 19 – July 4 at NMAI

May 21 – June 25 at Transformer Gallery

see reviews in Washington Post and Hawaii Luxury magazine

Kumi Nakajima

2011-05-26T21:14:00.000-07:00

MFA student Kumi Nakajima is a featured artist in the Glass Art Society's May/June 2011 Newsletter. See page 14.

Fatima Hoang and Janice Gomez's SummerCamp

2011-05-25T09:43:00.000-07:00

Summercamp is a home in the neighborhood of El Sereno, Los Angeles. The homemade modern house, full of pass-throughs and secret spaces, currently functions as an artist live/work space and hosts ProjectProject. Founded by alum Fatima Hoang, Elonda Billera and near-alum Janice Gomez in 2009, the space showcases exhibitions, performances, lectures, workshops, screenings and events by activating multiple parts of the property – installing works in the sloping backyard, projecting videos on the living room ceiling, and showcasing musical performances in the old goat pen. Summercamp's ProjectProject's upcoming exhibition Start the ball rolling again, opening June 12th, will feature works by artists who re-purpose ideas and translate materials. Faculty member Gaye Chan is included in this exhibition.

Summercamp's ProjectProject 3119 Chadwick Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032
Opening Reception Sunday, June 12th from 5-8PM
Pickling Demonstration with Jen Smith from 4-6PM
Exhibition runs from June 12th to July 2nd
Hours by appointment, please contact summercampprojectproject@gmail.com

Jen Thario at Core New Art Space

2011-05-22T10:02:00.000-07:00

Incoming MFA student Jen Thario is having an exhibition entitle Rudimentary at Core New Art Space May 26 - June 12, 2011.

Core New Art Space

900 Santa Fe, Denver, Colorado

opening reception on Friday May 27^th 6-9pm.

BFA students awarded at Windward Artist Guild 51st Annual Juried Exhibition

2011-05-09T19:55:00.000-07:00

Yumiko Glover, 647 Per

Alexander Clinthorne, Mechanical Leaf Form

BFA students Alexander Clinthorne and Yumiko Glover were both awarded at the Windward Artist Guild 51st Annual Juried Open Exhibition.
Yumiko Glover's piece 647 Per received Best of Show Award, and Alexander Clinthorne's Mechanical Leaf Form recieved the 3D Award.

Brady Evans and Alisa Cooper

2011-05-09T19:54:00.000-07:00

The UHM Honors Program provides opportunities for talented and motivated undergraduates to excel in their academic studies. Students complete a challenging inquiry-based curriculum that encourages learning through independent research and creative expression.

2 ART majors and Honors students, Brady Evans and Alisa Cooper received awards at the Spring Honors Symposium. Evans won 2nd place for his project The Sublime and Zen Painting. Cooper received Honorable Mention for her project Contemporary Art for Earth's Sake.

Robert Reed at Textile Art Center

2011-05-09T19:14:00.000-07:00

MFA student Robert Reed is among the artists exhibiting in Play at the Textile Art Center in Brooklyn, NY. Reed will be performing Amber Alert: Who Stole the Baby Jesus from the Manger? at the opening reception and exhibiting the headpiece from that performance for the duration of the exhibition.
Opening reception: May 13, 2011- 7:00-9:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: May 13 - June 24, 2011

ART Building as Location

2011-05-07T12:38:00.000-07:00

The ART Building is used as a backdrop for the upcoming issue of Flux Hawaii.

see video teaser

Kaili Chun recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

2011-05-06T21:44:00.000-07:00

MFA Alum, Kaili Chun was recipient of the 2010 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors.
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant " seeks to demonstrate that painting and sculpture are significant cultural necessities... By encouraging the ambitions of developing artists, the Foundation celebrates the unique legacy of Joan Mitchell as an American artist and seeks to empathize and draw attention to the important contributions of artists working today."

Scott Groeniger at Ferencvarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2011-05-06T21:27:00.000-07:00

Assistant Professor of 2D Digital Imaging, Scott Groeniger, has work in the international juried exhibition 9x12 Works at Ferencvarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
exhibition dates: May 26 - June 21, 2011

Mother's Day Art Sale

2011-05-03T13:42:00.000-07:00

Annual Mother's Day Art Sale

Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7, 2011

from 10am to 4pm

new location - near the department office and the galleries

for more information contact Professor Rick Mills - 808-956-5258 or at rmills@hawaii.edu

MFA Students present Performance Art at TCM

2011-04-29T17:28:00.000-07:00

This Saturday April 30 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm MFA students Shiori Abe, Alex Dorcean, Abi Good, Michael Hengler, Sheri Lyles, Jessica Orfe, Daniel Randerson, Chad Steve, Jonathan Swanz and Ryan Wuestewald with Professor Mary Babcock present a series of performances at TCM.
The works, including both solo and collaborative investigations, are a response and extension of the dialogue inspired by the current exhibition, 9769 Radio Drive, by Steven and William Ladd.

The Line Up
10:00 am:
Skin Like Honey/Ant Infestation/ Humans like Bees like Ants - Jonathan Swanz
In Situ - Jessica Orfe

1:00 pm
Paradox - Sheri Lyles

2:00 pm
Ant March/ Looking Up - Shiori Abe, Alex Dorcean, Abi Good, Michael Hengler, Sheri Lyles, Jessica Orfe, Daniel Randerson, Chad Steve, Jonathan Swanz and Ryan Wuestewald with Professor Mary Babcock

Analog Sunshine Recorders at Peace Cafe

2011-04-29T15:22:00.001-07:00

Photography collective, The Analog Sunshine Recorders have a new exhibition opening tonight at Peace Cafe.
This new show, Come Together, features 37 artists who each shot a roll of 35 mm film. The group met and put all 37 rolls into a bag and each roll was redrawn and double exposed by a different artist. This new body of work highlights what came out of the artist's visions coming together.

Opening Reception: April 29, 2011 6:00 - 10:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: April 29 - July 1, 2011
Peace Cafe 2239-C S. King St

Participating artist are: Ikaika Akana, Kara Akiyama, Jaime Balugo, Megan Bent, Andrea Charuk, Ualani Davis, Eva Enriquez, Melody Evaparadorn, Jordan Harrison, John Hook, Darcey Iwashita, Ashley Katamoto, Chris Kim, Austin Larson, Evan Lonley, Yosuke Moriya, Nathan Nachtigall, Natalie Nakasone, Brandon Ng, Aaron Nicholson, Jessica Orfe, Zach Orput, Christiaan Phleger, Nina Pullella, Vincent Ricafort, Chris Rohrer, Gary Saito, Liana Sano, Travis Sasaki, Bronson Shimabukuro, Rachel Spain, Chad Steve, Nicole Sterman, Peter Suzuki, Crystal Tezuka, Amanda Vernon, and Leanne Yamamoto.

Pacific Rim and Basin Art: Works by BFA 2011 students curated by Gaye Chan

2011-04-25T17:50:00.000-07:00

Travis Sasaki

Department Chair, Gaye Chan curated the online exhibition, Pacific Rim and Basin Art, featuring selected works from BFA class of 2011 students: Sonia Castro, Ualani Davis, Eva Enriquez, Brady Evans, Yumiko Glover, Aaron Nicholson, Chris Rohrer, Travis Sasaki, Maura Takeshita, Thomas Teroka, Crystal Tezuka, and Kimberlie Wong. The exhibition is featured on Jacket 2 an online publication based out of Philadelphia, PA. Click here to view Pacific Rim and Basin Art.

Laura Ruby at Hawai'i Pacific University Art Gallery

2011-04-25T17:21:00.000-07:00

Lecturer, Laura Ruby has an exhibition opening at Hawai'i Pacific University Art Gallery titled I'm Always Thinking of Chaucer.
Ruby's series of prints incorporates and interweaves Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval Canterbury Tales - his narration, his story's pilgrims, and the stories those pilgrims told, with the contemporary stories that poet Tony Quagliano told of contemporary literary and jazz pilgrims.
I'm Always Thinking of Chaucer will be on display from May 1 - July 15, 2011
Opening reception is May 1, 2011 from 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Gallery hours are Monday - Saturday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

MFA students present "Emerging Artist Talks" at thirtyninehotel

2011-04-18T18:23:00.000-07:00

Seven emerging artists from the MFA program will be presenting about their current studio practice. Come hear the stories behind the work and gain insight into how these artist's process, research, and personal experiences shape their visual language.

Artists: Megan Bent / Roxanne Chasle / Dustin Hart / Kumi Nakajima / Jessica Orfe / Chad Steve / Katie Small

April 28, 2011 @ 6:30 - 8:30 pm

thirtyninehotel, 39 N. Hotel St.

Megan Bent, Self Portrait, 2011

Radio Tiny interviews 6 BFA students

2011-04-14T20:00:00.000-07:00

Radio Tiny will be showcasing six BFA students. To be taped LIVE on Friday April 22nd 7:00-8:00 am shown on OC16. Starring - Alex Clinthorne, Ualani Davis, Brady Evans, James Kurzeka, Emily Sewell and Thomas Teraoka.

Radio Tiny broadcasts live via OC16 TV, on Radio K108 (1080 AM) and live streaming on www.OC16.tv

(artwork on left by Ualani Davis)

Travis Seifman in Kennedy Theatre's The Vengeful Sword

2011-04-08T01:40:00.000-07:00

MA student Travis Seifman, is serving as Production Dramaturg in The Vengeful Sword, an upcoming Kabuki production at Kennedy Theatre. Seifman draws from his art historical scholarship to assume a major role in production by providing cast and crew with historical/cultural background on their characters and the setting. Seifman is also playing a small role in the play itself.
The Vengeful Sword opens on April 8, 2011.
On Saturday April 23rd Travis will be presenting a pre-show chat "The Real Story Behind the Play."

James Jack presenting at Asian Studies conference

2011-03-30T10:26:00.000-07:00

MA student James Jack will be presenting a paper at the annual Asian Studies conference held in Honolulu this week in the session "Post-Bubble Aesthetics in Japan: Counter-Urbanist and Slow Life Philosophies in Japanese Contemporary Art and Architecture" on Friday, April 1 at 12:30-2:30 pm

Jack's paper entitled "The Spirit of Place: An Artist’s Perspective on New Exhibition Formats in Japan" will present a first-hand perspective on regional art exhibition formats based on the artists’ experiences while participating in recent Japanese art festivals. Drawing upon examples from the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial (2000-Present), Ueno Town art Museum (2007-2010), and Setouchi International Art Festival (2010) Jack will present the social and historical context for the art projects that he realized in each locale. The movement of artists and viewers from urban centers into the countryside during these exhibitions could be seen as a revitalization of social landscapes plagued with the reality of declining birth rates and widespread urban migration. This presentation will discuss projects by Jack, beginning with a discussion of the work, "Mini-Landscape for Senda" (2009), a permanent installation work created in Niigata utilizing local soil samples. Next the exhibition Sustainable Art that was held in decrepit neighborhoods around Tokyo’s Taito-ku will be analyzed for its approach literally, “turning the streets into a museum” by transforming unused school buildings, abandoned storefronts, and empty

houses as exhibition sites. Finally the site-specific work created on Shodo Island in the Setouchi Inland Sea, "Language As the House of Being" (2010), will show the renewal of a historic fishing structure utilizing local materials in collaboration with members of the local
community.

Megan Bent: Orvis Artist in Residence at Honolulu Academy of Arts

2011-03-28T23:20:00.000-07:00

Megan Bent, Sun Map from Pinhole Camera 3/25

Megan Bent, Light Map created inside Studio 30 HAA 3/27

MFA student Megan Bent is the current Orvis Artist in Residence at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Her project Sun Maps of the Phenomenal started this past weekend on March 26 and will run until May 7, 2011.

" The purpose of this project is to create an installation, which will show the unique invisible phenomena of each museum visitor's travels through the Honolulu Academy of Arts."

Visitors to the museum can wear a pinhole camera to a courtyards of the museum. The sunlight will create a pattern onto the negative that represents the visitors movements. Visitors can also make long exposure photographs of their movements with light inside Studio 30.

You can visit Megan and create Sun Maps on Saturdays from 10 am - 4:30 pm and Sundays from 1:00 - 5:00 pm.

Also don't miss:
4/17- Bank of Hawai'i Family Sunday
4/29 - Art After Dark- 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Students and Alums Featured in "Contemporary Photography in Hawai'i 2011"

2011-03-28T21:00:00.000-07:00

Friday April 1 marks the opening of Contemporary Photography in Hawai'i 2011 at South St. Gallery at Frame Arts Hawai'i.
Photographers from UH featured in the show are:
Brent Akana, Elizabeth R. Curtis [MFA student], Jordan Harrison, Ashley Katamoto, Natalie Nakasone [BFA alum], Chris Rohrer [BFA student], and Lenny Ushidate.
Opening reception is Friday April 1 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition dates are April 1 -30, 2011
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30 - 5:30 pm, Saturday 9:30 - 1:00 pm

Kanako Nagai in Macau International Performance Festival

2011-03-12T16:47:00.000-08:00

BFA Alum Kanako Nagai is among the participating artists in the Macau International Performance Festival 2011 at Ox Warehouse, Macau, China (March 11 - 12, 2011)

Niho Kozuru: Commissioned sculpture at Sheldon Museum of Art

2011-03-12T16:19:00.000-08:00

Niho Kozuru, Transplanted, 2011

MFA alum Niho Kozuru was commissioned by the Sheldon Art Museum of Lincoln, Nebraska to create a permanent sculpture for their Great Hall. The resulting work, Transplanted was reviewed in the Lincoln Journal Star.

Maya Lea Portner at Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition

2011-03-12T15:57:00.000-08:00

MFA Alum Maya Lea Portner's work was selected by Nathan Trotman, Associate Curator of the Guggenheim Museum, for inclusion in the Brooklyn Waterfront Coalition's Annual National Juried Exhibition - Wide Open 2 (March 12 - March 27, 2011)

image: Maya Lea Portner, History and the Common Chicken II (detail)

Wendy Kawabata at Root Division in San Francisco

2011-03-10T13:09:00.000-08:00

Associate Professor in Drawing and Painting, Wendy Kawabata, has work in the group exhibition Manufactured Organic at Root Division in San Francisco.
"Working within the framework of a standard exhibition, Manufactured Organic encourages conversation about the environmental impact of the art world. Through progressively shifting their art practices to reflect a sense of ecological awareness, the artists included in Manufactured Organic pose sustainable solutions to the environmental issues inherent in exhibition process."

Manufactured Organic exhibition dates: March 9 - 26, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday March 12, 7:00 to 10:00 pm

Pat Hickman at Phoenix Gallery, NY

2011-03-05T21:47:00.000-08:00

Professor Emeritus, Pat Hickman has work featured in River That Runs Both Ways at the Phoenix Gallery in New York, NY.
"Pat Hickman is working with what is found beneath the surface. When tree's fall into water, over decades they decay, eventually disappearing into the river bottom. What resists disintegration are the strange shapes formed where branch joined trunk, a cross-grained, pitch hardened core like a tooth in a human head. Hickman is exploring visual metaphors with these river teeth, the last part of the body to let go."
River That Runs Both Ways will be on display from March 2 - 26, 2011.

Suzanne Wolfe at TCM First Hawaiian Center

2011-03-05T21:29:00.000-08:00

Suzanne Wolfe, Series of cups earthenware, cast under glaze and over glaze

Ceramics Program Chair and Professor Suzanne Wolfe has a new exhibition Cup[S] on display at TCM at First Hawaiian Center from March 4 - July 15, 2011.
In this exhibition, Wolfe will show more than 300 ceramic cups, each conveying a unique narrative through the application and juxtaposition of multiple image transfer.

Honolulu Printmakers 83rd Annual Exhibition

2011-03-05T20:30:00.000-08:00

2011 Gift Print: Jared Wickware, Apparition

Numerous UHM Art Faculty, Alumni and Students were (again!) represented in the 83rd Annual Printmakers Exhibition:

faculty - Scott Groeniger

alums - Diana Jeon, Erica and Rob Molyneux, Deb Nehmad, Maya Portner, Dieter Runge, David Smith, Peter Suzuki, Paul Weissman, ....

current students - Ashley Katamoto, Mary Philpotts McGrath, Jessica Orfe, Jonathan Swanz ...

probably more... sorry can't keep up. ahhhh... the problems with success....

The exhibition runs from February 24 - March 18, 2011. I am sure you will find more.

UH Design Workshop in Honolulu Magazine

2011-03-03T14:11:00.000-08:00

The UH Design Workshop was featured in the Calabash section of the Honolulu Magazine (March 2011 - Best of Honolulu issue).
[to download PDF]

Mary Babcock at the Textile Art Center

2011-03-03T00:33:00.000-08:00

Teem - a collaborative installation

by Mary Babcock (faculty member and Chair of Fiber area) and Christopher Curtin

at the Textile Art Center, Brooklyn, NY (March 11 - April 19)
Opening Reception: March 11, 8-11PM

Teem, a large-scale installation, superimposes metaphors of water (movement/potentiality), and the sea (the infinite, comfort, danger, aloneness) to evoke a sense of dreamspace -- the space of possibility.

As artist Robert Irwin once noted, art is "the placing of...attention on the periphery of knowing", where logic and knowledge meld into a dream-like state. From this murky place of subjective experience, water emerges as a metaphor for the individual self caught in a colloidal suspension, drawn back together by forces of nature larger than ourselves. Teem uses textile
to create an environment where viewers find themselves under the surface of the water at the powerful juncture where river currents meet the ocean tides, where the individual meets the collective.

In a world that is increasingly reliant on "tele-presence", there are two aspects of our experience that are often overlooked: the sense of physicality, of touch and of physical-object-presence as we as its opposite, the void -- the palpable presence of absence. In this installation we bring the sense of poetry of the physical, undulating surface of the ocean indoors as w merge it with the beauty and history of the buildings' architecture. In doing so, we intend to shift viewers experience out of the compression of the everyday hyper-stimulating environment into the experience of spaciousness, into the potentiality of dreamspace, in the possibility inherent in the void.

Suspended horizontal planes of lightweight, translucent silk are blown by rhythmically timed fans as audience members are beckoned to lie beneath this "screen" of textiles that mimic the constant flux of the ocean's surface. Six shibori hand-dyed silk "rivers" rotate in negative space above the billowing white silk surface below. These "rivers" interact with the ocean as the large silk surface is gently blown up into their paths. Each is affected by the gentle caress that takes place, and the result is mixing of the diaphanous silk and the ephemeral, fleeting movements of the river above.

-From the "Teem" proposal, courtesy Mary Babcock and Christopher Curtin
Photo courtesy Mary Babcock and Christopher Curtin, from previous installation titled "Deluge"

Babcock's shibori silk pieces in the Textile Art Center's front windows has inspired a fundraiser for the recent tsunami tragedy in Japan.

James Jack and Travis Seifman

2011-03-01T16:27:00.000-08:00

MA students James Jack and Travis Seifman are presentors at a Pecha Kucha event at the Center for Japanese Studies (Moore Hall 318) Friday, March 5 from 4-6.

Gaye Chan showing at Southern Exposure, San Francisco

2011-02-26T20:47:00.000-08:00

Department Chair and faculty member Gaye Chan is included in an exhibition entitled "On the Ground" curated by Weston Furuya at Southern Exposure in San Francisco.

Chan's contribution, entitled "Free Grindz", is a part of her ongoing work as EATING IN PUBLIC. Free Grindz is both an edible weed information center and a weed seed distribution station. Designed as a shipping crate and made (almost) entirely out of found material, it unfolds into the exhibition itself.

see installation views

On the Ground presents new work arising from artists' relationship to particular localities - San Francisco. O'ahu. Cairo. The North coast of Egypt. Tijuana. Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Mexico City. Puebla. Monterrey. Queretaro. The artists in "On the Ground" build from the specific codes and nuances of these places, creating their own narratives and gestures that begin to reveal or reimagine their communities.

Southern Exposure

3030 20th Street, San Francisco

March 11 - April 23, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, March 11 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Opened in 1974, SOEX is one of the longest running alternative spaces in California, particularly known for their exhibition program of dynamic, cutting edge art, as well as their education and community programs.

Followup with Space&Sound event

2011-02-24T00:15:00.000-08:00

A followup video of an event featuring Teebs organized by Space&Sound, a collective cofounded by alum Annie Nguyen, also of ET AL fame. see earlier post

Debra Drexler at Exit Art, New York City

2011-02-18T17:28:00.001-08:00

Professor Debra Drexler was one of the invited artists into Exit Art's latest exhibition Fracking: Art and Activism Against the Drill. This exhibition, a project of SEA [Social Environment Aesthetics], will expose this process of gas extraction that is contaminating water supplies worldwide, and encourage audiences to continue educating themselves and their communities on fracking and its detrimental effects.

Fracking opened on December 7, 2010 and has received such a positive response that the exhibition has been extended until March 25, 2011.

Image: Debra Drexler, Too Much Heaven on Earth to Last, 2010

Paul Lavy at The Getty Center in Los Angeles

2011-02-18T14:32:00.000-08:00

Assistant Professor & Art History Graduate Director Paul Lavy will be lecturing at the Getty Center in L.A. on March 5, 2011. As part of the Museum's event Ancient Cambodian Bronzes: History Ritual and Relevance, Lavy will be giving a presentation entitled "The Great Contemplative: The Buddha Image in Early Khmer Art and Culture".

Image: Vishnu-Vasudeva-Narayana, Cambodia, Angkor period late 1000's -about 1150
Courtesy of National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Phen

John Szostak at the Sainsbury Institute in London

2011-02-18T14:14:00.000-08:00

Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History John Szostak has been at the Sainsbury Institute in London after being awarded the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowship for 2010 -2011.

While in the UK Szostak has the following presentations:
February 17: Foul is Fair: 'Anti-Beauty' as Vehicle for Artistic Modernism in Japan at the Nissan Institute, Oxford University
February 21: Nihonga Painting and the Japanese Reception of Artistic Modernism for the Asian Studies Seminar Series at the University of Cambridge
March 17: 'Anti- Beauty' Portraits and Modern Painting in Japan at the Sainsbury Institute

The Reformer's Brush: Modernity and Traditional Media in China

2011-02-13T22:14:00.000-08:00

Zhang Binglin [1868-1936], Couplet in Bronze Characters

The Reformer's Brush: Modernity and Traditional Media in China opens at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery on February 27, 2011.
This exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai revolution in China and showcases 78 works of Chinese calligraphy and painting from Honolulu collectors Dr. Ernest and Letah Lee and Dr. Chin-tang Lo.
On February 27 at 2:00 pm in the Art Auditorium, Keynote speaker Shana J. Brown will be giving a lecture Do Great Political Thinkers Make Great Artists? Visual Culture as a Medium for Reform in Turn-of-the-Century China.
Immediately following is the opening reception from 3:00 - 5:00 pm.

The Reformer's Brush will be on display from February 27 - April 8, 2011.
Gallery hours are Monday - Friday 10:30 - 5:00; Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 [closed spring break]
Gallery tours will be held Sundays March 6 - April 3 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm
An Educational Chinese Film Series will screened Sundays March 6 - April 3 starting at 3:30 pm in Art 101.

Katie Small: In Residence at the Honolulu Academy of Arts

2011-02-11T16:55:00.000-08:00

MFA student Katie Small is 2011's first Orvis Artist in Residence at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Her project Mark and Respond "is a project that explores the relationship between music and painting...responding to an incredibly diverse musical playlist museum visitors will "play" along on their designated, amplified canvas creating their own soundscape. As the public paints producing sounds on their canvas I will listen and respond painting my interpretation of their sound on my canvas."
Katie Small is in residence at HAA starting February 6 until March 20.
You can participate in Mark and Respond Saturdays from 10:00 am - 4:30 pm and Sundays from 1:00 - 5:00 pm.
Also stop by on:
2/20 Bank of Hawaii Family Sunday
2/25 Art after Dark [live painting performance]
3/20 Bank of Hawaii Family Sunday

Analog Sunshine Recorders at Thirtyninehotel

2011-01-31T22:50:00.001-08:00

Photography collective The Analog Sunshine Recorders have a new show opening February 4, 2011 at Thirtyninehotel titled Slow Jams, The Pinhole Edition.

"The Analog Sunshine Recorders are a collective of photographers outfitted with homemade, low-tech, and DIY cameras. With our little boxes of air we record what we find on a spectrum of analog emulsion. We set out to explore, understand, and celebrate the world around us by seeing it through a camera that celebrates the photographic mediums historic foundations. In this selection of pinhole camera images we highlight film based photography and show the potential of simplicity."

The Analog Sunshine Recorders are: Ikaika Akana, Kara Akiyama, Megan Bent, Elizabeth R Curtis, Eva Enriquez, John Hook, Darcy Iwashita, Ashley Katamoto, Klaus Knoll, Bronson Kyu Shimabukuro, Nina Pullella, Chris Rohrer, Travis Sasaki, Katie Small, and Crystal Tezuka.

Analog Sunshine Recorders: Slow Jams, the Pinhole Edition
Exhibition Dates : February 4 - March 19, 2011
Opening Reception: First Friday February 4 5:00 - 9:00 pm

Thirtyninehotel is located at 39 N. Hotel St. Honolulu, HI

Elizabeth R. Curtis MFA Thesis Exhibition: The Visitors

2011-01-29T20:30:00.000-08:00

MFA student Elizabeth R. Curtis has her MFA thesis exhibition, The Visitors, opening on February 13, 2011 at the UH Commons Gallery.
The Visitors, is an examination of what it means to be a "visitor". It explores issues of identity, preservation, and globalism through photographic imagery. Subjects are portrayed in a manner that references formal Victorian portraiture conventions against the backdrop of three contemporary "sites"- The Honolulu Academy of Arts, The Battleship Missouri Memorial, and Waimea Bay Beach Park.
The Visitors opening reception is February 13, 2011 3-5 pm
The Visitors will be on display February 13 - February 25, 2011.
Commons Gallery Hours are Monday - Friday 10:30 am - 4:00 pm

Joseph Stanton wins the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award

2011-01-27T17:54:00.000-08:00

Professor of Art History and American Studies, Joseph Stanton was recently awarded the first Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award. Stanton was also interviewed by Noe Tanigawa on HPR about the award and his poetry. You can listen here.

Alums featured at Gallery 'Iolani

2011-01-27T17:37:00.000-08:00

Noe Tanigawa, The Right Place at the Right Time

Alums KC Grennan, Mary Mitsuda and Noe Tanigawa have work in the group exhibition Natural Selection at Gallery 'Iolani. Opening reception is February 4, from 4 -7 pm. Natural Selection will be on display until March 4, 2011.

Yida Wang in Painting Zombies

2011-01-27T17:23:00.000-08:00

Associate Professor Yida Wang in the group exhibition Painting Zombies at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery in Minneapolis Minnesota (November 16 - December 15, 2010)

Co-curated by former faculty member Ryuta Nakajima

Professors, Students, and Alums feautred in group show at The ARTS at Marks Garage

2011-01-20T16:09:00.000-08:00

Sheri Lyles, From There to Me, 2010

Juried exhibition Now Here From Nowhere: The Future History of Navigation opened January 11 at The ARTS at Marks Garage. Featured in the group show are professor of 2-D Digital Imaging, Scott Groeniger, Lecturer Kirsten Rae Simonsen, Lecturer and MFA alumni Maya Portner, MFA students Megan Bent, and Sheri Lyles, undergraduate students from Reem Bassous' Intermediate Drawing, and undergraduate student Rex Vlcek.

Artist reception is tomorrow Slow Art Friday January 21 from 6 - 9 pm and First Friday February 4, 2011.
Now Here From Nowhere: The Future History of Navigation will be on display until February 26, 2011.

Wendy Kawabata featured in group exhibition SUBstainability

2011-01-19T16:34:00.000-08:00

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled [Placebo], 1991

Associate Professor in Drawing and Painting Wendy Kawabata has work in the group show SUBstainability at Gallery I & II, in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University.
SUBstainability examines the multiple ways that we are sustained emotionally, mentally, and bodily. Also in the exhibition are works by Felix Gonzalez Torres, Kiki Smith, and Louise Bourgeois.
SUBstainability opens January 20 and will be on display until March 1, 2011.

Allison Uttley Bianco solo exhibition at HPU Art Gallery

2011-01-19T16:18:00.001-08:00

MFA alum Allison Uttley Bianco has a solo exhibition Go Ahead and Sink opening at the Hawaii Pacific University Art Gallery on January 23, 2011.
Go Ahead and Sink pictures unfortunate ships being swallowed up by the ocean. This exhibition deals with natural perils and their absurd relationship to personal nostalgia. Since the fragile vessels share names with family members and friends they become linked with memories and history. The drawings represent frozen moments just between floating and sinking where sinking always wins, but hope for floating still remains.
Opening reception: January 23 from 4-6 pm.
Exhibition dates : January 23 - March 4, 2011
Gallery hours at HPU Art Gallery: Monday - Saturday, 8:00 - 5:00 pm