The Contemporary Museum –
Makiki Heights
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PRESS
RELEASE
For
Immediate
Release October
5,
2009
Contact:
Allison Wong, Interim Executive
Director
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Hiroki, Setsuko and Miho
Morinoue
October 9,
2009 – February 19, 2010 (This is a new closing
date)
The Contemporary
Museum at First Hawaiian Center
The Morinoue family of artists from the Big
Island, Hiroki, Setsuko, and Miho, will be featured in an exhibition of their
new works at The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center October 9, 2009
through February 19, 2010. Entry is free during normal bank hours and on First
Fridays.
Living and working out of their studios in
Holualoa on the Big Island of Hawaii, married couple Hiroki and Setsuko, and
their daughter, Miho, create work that is continuously inspired by each other
and by their island surroundings. The range of work planned for this
presentation includes prints, sculptures, drawings, paintings, and ceramics.
The Morinoues were instrumental in founding
the Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture, a non-profit organization that
offers educational and cultural activities for their community. Over the years,
Hiroki and Setsuko have hosted many well-known artists such as Red Grooms, Bud
Shark, and Bob Arnesson.
Daughter Miho Morinoue is a classically
trained ballet dancer who has performed in Europe and North America. She has
also designed costumes for the Dance Theatre of Harlem and others. She returned
to Hawaii after a 10-year career as a professional dancer.
About the
artists:
Hiroki
Morinoue: Born in Kealakekua, Hawaii,
Hiroki Morinoue first studied painting at the Kona Arts Center before enrolling
at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he received his Bachelors of
Fine Arts degree. He also spent time in Japan studying with a Master woodblock
printer. The skills he acquired there are evident in his direct, elegant, and
fluid woodcuts and monoprints.
Hiroki works in a variety of media including
painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics and prints. In all of his work there
is a compelling sense of place; he is a patient observer of nature, its rhythms,
cycles and patterns, and these observations become poetic images in his
work.
He has shown widely in the United States and
Japan; he has completed several major public art commissions including projects
at the Honolulu Public Library and the Hawaii Convention Center. His work is
represented in the collections of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; the
Honolulu Academy of Arts; The National Parks Collection, Maryland; Ueno No Mori
Museum, Tokyo, and others.
Setsuko Watanabe
Morinoue: Born in Japan, Setsuko is a
ceramic and mixed media artist. She is a passionate and dedicated advocate for
arts education for children. She is the program director at Donkey Mill. Setsuko
dabbled in photography before taking an interest in
kusaki-zome
(painting with natural dyes) and in the 70’s, after moving to Hawaii, she
became immersed in the art of clay.
Today, Setsuko works not only with clay, but
has also extended her field of creative works through mixed media in painting,
printmaking, and sculpture. Her work has been shown in Japan, New York City,
California, and Hawaii. She has received several awards for her works in
ceramics, painting, and printmaking over the years. Seksuko’s works are in
the public and corporate collections including State Foundation on Culture and
the Arts, First Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, Kailua-Kona, and Guam, Bank of Hawaii,
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and the offices of Advance Medical Nutrition in
Hayward, California.
Miho
Morinoue: Miho Morinoue is an acclaimed
dancer and a visual artist. As a member of the Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Company she performed extensively in the United States and Europe. As a visual
artist, she collaborated on numerous projects, designing costumes and setting
ballets for Complexions, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre
of Harlem, Oakland Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet and many others. She has shown
her artworks in Hawaii, New York and Seattle, Washington.
Morinoue completed her first lithograph at
Shark’s Ink in 2006. The
Cove is a tour de force of drawing and
imagination. Taking nearly a year to complete the drawing while touring with
Complexions Contemporary Ballet,
The Cove
incorporates portraits of friends and
family, Japanese mythology and Hawaiian
settings.Her prints are in the
collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum
of American Art, New
York.------------General
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