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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.

 

Tree in the downtown of Honolulu, mixed technique on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
The Tree which looks particularly beautiful in the sunset III, ink, acrylic on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
The Tree which looks particularly beautiful in the sunset II, ink, acrylic on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
The Tree which looks particularly beautiful in the sunset I, ink, acrylic on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
Going home from campus, ink, acrylic on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
Looking at the view, ink on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
Between buildings II, ink on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
Between buildings I, ink on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
Tree in Honolulu downtown, ink on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
The gigantic baobab, ink, acrylic on cardboard, 10.7″ x 9.5″, Honolulu, 2016
The gigantic baobab – approach I, ink, acrylic on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016
Olive tree on campus, ink, acrylic on cardboard, 9.5″ x 10.7″, Honolulu, 2016

 

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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.

Breaking News: Residency extended!

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I am unbelievably happy I can announce my Artist Residency at University of Hawaii at Manoa being extended until the very end of May which turns my stay here into a roughly 8 month-long paradise in a professional sense. 🙂

This means I can use this fabulous opportunity to continue my own research as an artist, use my studio (#204, Art Building), get to know these talented Honolulu-based artists (whose artistic work and activity as professors, lecturers are both deeply inspiring) and widen my pedagogical experiences by having classes over my studio.

It would all not be possible without the help and support of the Art Department, primarily conceptual artist and head of the department Gaye Chan! I would like to thank also the faculty for being so open, cooperative and supportive!

My studio occupancy started on Oct 5 2015 and, according to the latest notification I received, lasts until May 31, 2016.

 

Plant Vocabulary

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Frequently being updated in connection with the UHM Plant Project, gathering more and more words from the field of flora, biology, plants etc. that are not necessarily part of a person’s vocabulary who learns English.
Last update January 31, 2016
genus, noun, [ˈjēnəs] a principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family, and is denoted by a capitalized Latin name, e.g., Leo. “The identification of two named genera in a single organism presents a taxonomic dilemma.” synonyms: subdivision, division, group, subfamily

heartwood, noun, [ˈhärtˌwo͝od] the dense inner part of a tree trunk, yielding the hardest timber. “In the inner heartwood , these bodies were rarefying and cell walls became impregnated by a brown colour.”

 

lignin, noun, [ˈlignin] a complex organic polymer deposited in the cell walls of many plants, making them rigid and woody. “Callose, lignin and suberin are polymers that can be elicited as plant defences that reinforce cell walls of some species.”

pod, noun, [päd] an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting open on both sides when ripe. “Late in the season, just as the seedpods begin to split, open a pod and gather the seeds.” synonyms:  shell, husk, hull, case, shuck, pericarp, capsule

sapwood, noun, [ˈsapˌwo͝od] the soft outer layers of recently formed wood between the heartwood and the bark, containing the functioning vascular tissue. “The beetles lay their eggs in trees and the resulting larvae bore into the wood, feeding on the tree’s cambium, sapwood , and heartwood and impeding the movement of water and nutrients through the tree.”

Definitions from Google Translate unless indicated otherwise.

Ongoing Artist Residency from Oct 2015

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Last update Jan 28, 2016

I am honored to have been offered a position as artist-in-residence by conceptual artist and head of University of Hawai’i at Manoa – Art Department, Gaye Chan, along with an individual studio (#204) for the rest of the semester starting from Oct 5, 2015. After arriving to Hawaii at the end of August I made some sketches walking around Honolulu and going on some trips around Oahu, but for the majority of my new pieces to be created I definitely needed a space, which I actually got to start using in perfect timing.

Since the University of Hawaii at Manoa is a wonderful campus I felt like the only legit thing to do is to continue focusing on the plants in Honolulu concerning my work (though previously I had been engaged in charcoal portraits). The department has been the most supportive possible introducing me on their official site, reporting my activity on social media.

 

Edina Fülöp – artist in residence – has only been in house for a day and she has already settled right in and got to work!! more info on her at http://www.hawaii.edu/art/news+updates/?p=1253

Posted by University of Hawaii at Manoa – Department of Art and Art History on Sunday, October 4, 2015

 

My work here exceeds studio work in a sense that I have been having studio visits quite often. Beside consulting with BFA and MFA students, looking at their work, listening to their presentations, I have been having them in my studio individually, and whole classes have been coming to my studio while I represented my artwork to them. Sometimes one theme has been in focus like drawing with charcoal in which case I have been making demonstrations for them, also interacting with their drawing sessions by helping them with my advices.

This whole chain of events happened encouraged by Gaye Chan, and thanks to the open-minded attitude of UH Art Dept professors like abstract painter Debra Drexler, artist Wendy Kawabata and printmaker & MFA student / Graduate Assistant Hannah Hilary Day.

Posted by NBFE.artist on Tuesday, January 12, 2016

I have been having a lot of fun while experiencing how inter-cultural the language of visual art is. I am fortunate enough to have a lot on my plate concerning future interactions with the art scene in Honolulu, which I am going to share in details in due time. About my ongoing project concerning the plant life more info can be found under Plant Project Formulating.

The subject of the time period of my residency was revisited and am super happy about it being extended until at least Feb 10, 2016.