Chinatown Courtyard - One Night Stand in The Chinatown Courtyard

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First Friday Hawaii
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Chinatown Courtyard - One Night Stand in The Chinatown Courtyard
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Type: Exhibit
Date: Friday - 8/7/2009
Time: 5pm - 9pm
Location:
Mendonca Building Courtyard
1126 Smith Street
#11 on the Gallery
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For More info:
JoDee Hunt, 262-5930
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Cost: Free

The Mendonca Building's Courtyard is open again for a First Friday celebration! We are honored to have seven artists from the Digital Art Society of Hawai'i (DASH) as well as music and refreshments. A mosaic of backgrounds and interests merging in digital fine art describes the exciting work of DASH. It is painters, printmakers, photographers, engineers, graphic designers, and multimedia

experts -- all fascinated with the limitless expression possible through digital imaging. The creative synergy of DASH inspires each member's work, and the group actively promotes digital fine art through collaboration, education, exhibitions, and the welcoming of new artist members. For additional information, visit the DASH website at www.digitalarthawaii.org.

Windward artist, Joan Dubanoski returns to the Courtyard with her friends and associates. She is interested in nature's patterns and the relation of color to these patterns. A sort of geometry exists among these variables which is challenging to capture and express. She releases the beauty of these natural designs through digital imaging, with prints on watercolor paper and canvas.
David Cornwell is a painter, photographer and a writer. His art is created by using digital cameras, paint on canvas and other combined media. He continues to gather his growing file of computer software programs, most often applied in selective combinations. Paint & digital often marry in the same image. Viewing his work may have you guessing how it was done. David may be guessing with you. He is an honors graduate from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Michigan with multiple degrees in fine art. A resident of Hawaii since 1960, he is much traveled on photo & art assignments.< o:p>

Federico (Fred) Domingo, another Windward artist, studied and worked as an illustrator for several years in the Philippines before moving to Hawai’i in the early 1970s. While heading for a job offering in Detroit, his visit to Hawai’i was only meant to be a brief visit with old friends. Unsuspectingly, the beauty of the islands was too great of a lure, and instead of continuing on, he abandoned his original plans. Since then, Hawai’i has become his home. Currently, Fred is enjoying his retirement from his post as a scientific illustrator at the University of Hawai’i, John A. Burns School of Medicine. He now enjoys spending his days with a paintbrush or pastel colors and digital painting. The island landscapes, seascapes, flowers and people serve as the inspiration for his work. Fred is a member of the Association of Hawai’i Artists and Digital Art Society of Hawai’i.

Ellen Chapman originally worked in pastels and pencil, however, in the last 15 years she has also have been creating digital work. Some is “born digital” drawing, using only very basic software tools so that the drawings are as personal and idiosyncratic as possible. Some works are the result of photographed or scanned images that are manipulated and altered with software. Counter-intuitively, the ease of experimentation afforded by software makes being an artist more demanding because there is a perceived obligation to try many options for creating and printing, even though most of them are not used. By the time an image is printed, there is more assurance that it is “done” than with more traditional tools.

Maurice Hutchinson (Hutch) is an annual Courtyard participant. Alt hough not formally trained in art, Hutch’s passion for it dates back to his childhood. Over the years Hutch has explored working in pencil as well as with pen and ink. His current direction is based on his desire to create an art style which is not only unique visually, but also unique in the way the viewer is drawn into interacting with and interpreting each work in his or her own way. Derived from pencil drawings and sketches, each work is a montage of color, shape and texture for the eye to explore and discover—a unique art style reflecting the multi-cultural heritage and experiences of the artist.

Carren Gaddis, originally oil landscape artist from the Pacific Northwest, moved to Hawaii in 1978. She found the beauty of the Hawaiian Islands a constant inspiration on her journey of self-discovery. In the ensuing years the focus of her creativity has evolved from oil landscapes to underwater photography. When she came up for air, it was the lush tropical rain forest that whispered and lured her in a different direction. Her fanciful depictions of the verdant jungle are a product=2 0of the exciting world of digital photography, where she is a front-runner in pioneering the combination of camera and computer to create a totally new form of fine art.

Chae Ho Lee is a newcomer to the One Night Stand. His artwork is part of an ongoing series of digital prints on transparent Plexiglas that examine the documents and images that have defined his past and present. The list of names and addresses on his Korean birth certificate and photographs taken before his birth have always intrigued him because they are a tie to places he has never been to and people he will never know. Not interested in recreating the past, he attempts to establish a dialogue and level of intimacy with letterforms and images that hold a resonance in his artwork and life.

Starpoint Café will again be open for business and you can see artwork by Kate
Wagner and her friends inside the Cafe.

Visiting from Colorado is Heidi Brandon who will be exhibiting her jewelry and original watercolor notecards by Gail Brandon.

Fred Gayagas will be on stage with his familiar music and audience interaction. He welcomes your participation with music or hula.

Enter into the Chinatown Courtyard on Smith Street through the bamboo at the Blue Dragon Gate or from Maunakea Street. This event is free and open to the public.

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