Save the date for June 30th for the Reception of The One Little “Island” Artist Collective @ Square Barrels!

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I would like to cordially invite you to a group exhibition I am participating in with The One Little “Island” Artist Collective at Square Barrels. The originally Michigan-based group grew when members moved to Hawaii, still some members currently living on the Mainland or soon-to-be-off-the-island are to be represented at this show also.

My good friend fiber and metalsmith artist Deanna Gabiga introduced me to this colorful, young creative group of people who work in a wide range of media. Deanna—whose work is especially of a truly exceptional kind that is definitely worth getting to know and see in person—and I have a lot in common concerning our interest in different cultures and how our lifepaths brought us to very interesting places of the world. I got to know her as a very talented, driven and clever woman. We have our regular sessions where we consult with each other concerning art, Hawaii and share our experiences and opinions.

I am thankful that on one of our meetings she invited me to exhibit with this group to show a series of my smaller pieces I created during my Artist Residency at University of Hawaii at Manoa during the past academic year. As far as my work, this show in the downtown area of Honolulu can be considered as a little sneak peek of the body of work that will be shown at another two-person show I will soon announce.

 

 

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The One Little “Island” Artist Collective presents:

“Until We Meet Again”

The What: an art exhibition featuring ten artists based in
Hawaii and continental US.

The Where: Square Barrels in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii
1001 Bishop Street in Bishop Square.
The When: opening reception on June 30th, 5pm-9pm,
with exhibition running through July 14th.

Starring:

Kelly Pearcy
Kyle Capacia
Jessica Lynn Fowler
Edina Fülöp
Deanna Gabiga
Danielle Halford
Brandi Hardy
Kaceylin Prinea-Chargualaf
Anna Szafranski
Chloe Tomomi

…be there, or be square (pun definitely intended).

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For more info see the public facebook event.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BG7_nbQEdmf/

The Retrieval of the Beautiful @ The Painting Center

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Check out the newsletter and The Retrieval of the Beautiful catalogue!

 

“Exhibition Dates: June 21 – July 16, 2016

Deadline for Submission: May 6, 2016

Notification Date: May 20, 2016

Artwork Shipping Dates: June 14 – June 18, 2016

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 23, from 6 – 8 pm”

from http://thepaintingcenter.org/juried-exhibition-retrieval-beautiful

 

“The Retrieval of the Beautiful
Galen Johnson’s book The Retrieval of the Beautiful (Northwestern University Press)
is a dynamic discussion of existence and consciousness of human activity, including
art. Johnson writes, “Here it is enough to see that beauty and the sublime blend into
one another when the beautiful grows powerful, transcendent and majestic.” Something
beautiful seduces you and draws you in.
Galen A. Johnson is an honors professor at the University of Rhode Island, director of
the Rhode Island Center for the Humanities, and General Secretary of the International
Merleau Ponty Circle. We are grateful to Galen Johnson and Northwestern University
Press for the use of the title The Retrieval of the Beautiful, the title of their recent
publication. Maurice Merleau Ponty trained as a psychologist, one of the youngest to
lecture at the Sorbonne and was an editor at Les Temps Modernes with Jean Paul
Sartre.
Merleau’s philosophical writing emerges from a deeply engaged humanist personality and
a passionately motivated form of observation. Merleau’s contribution to Phenomenology
is, for us, partly located in his description and analysis of what we might categorize as,
“formal” painterly issues – complementary color relations, parallax vision, afterimages,
geometry of optics.
His seminal essay, “Cezanne’s Doubt”, links these formalist elements to Cezanne’s
psychology and the artist’s fierce insistence on perception as a lived, physical
phenomenon. The essay was part of his articulation of the idea of the body-subject as
an alternative to the Cartesian ‘Cogito’. The notion of “embodiment” is a central tenet
of his ontology.
The development of art since the 1970’s has been, in many ways, Phenomenological.
It has taken many of the connections between body and expression, temperament
and politics and finally body-art-history and made it its own. Through the framework
of Merleau’s aesthetics Galen Johnson pursues the connections found in desire and
repetition, difference and rhythm as they evoke the sublime. Johnson’s finely textured
discussion weaves classical philosophy as well as the moderns, including Deleuze
and Lyotard, as they shuttle threads in
The Retrieval of the Beautiful.”
Bill Hochhausen, 2016 from the catalogue

Breaking News: work accepted for show at the Painting Center in NY

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I am pleased to announce that my work has been been selected to be part of The Painting Center’s Retrieval of the Beautiful exhibition. The exhibition will feature 84 artists. The dates for the exhibition are June 21 – July 16, 2016. The Opening Reception is Thursday, June 23 from 6 to 8 pm.

This highly competitive opportunity gives me the chance to represent my art in Manhattan for the first time. More information on the particular piece which has been framed and shipped lately and just been delivered, soon to be published.

I would like to grab every platform to express how grateful I am for my academic year long Artist Residency offered by the Head of Art Department at University of Hawaii at Manoa, wonderful artist and person Gaye Chan and to Reem Bassous professor and truly inspiring, amazing artist who brought my attention to the call of this show.

Having my studio at UH Manoa has been a blessing in so many senses, I hope I have been able to give some of it back to the community.