The Contemporary Museum –
Makiki Heights
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Updated: October 5, 2009
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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
2009-2010
THE CONTEMPORARY
MUSEUM • 2411 MAKIKI HEIGHTS DRIVE
Special
Offers:
Military Family
Outreach, sponsored by BAE Systems and
Boutiki – Free entry to all Active Duty, Retired, and Military Reserve
Members and their families with Military ID.
TCM Free Community
Day -Third Thursday of every month
– Free entry for all.
ArtSpree
2010 – July 10, 2010 – Free
entry for all; Park at Punahou and ride free bus to TCM
Ongoing:
Yoshihiro
Suda
July 11 –
October 18, 2009
Makiki
Heights Galleries
Organized
by TCM; Curator: James Jensen, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and
Collections
Japanese artist
Yoshihiro Suda (born 1969) is internationally known for his installations of
delicate carved and painted wooden plant life. Suda's sculptures of indigenous
Japanese plants and flowers, including camellias, magnolias, and roses, as well
as common weeds, are meticulously created with surprising realism and in
true-to-life scale that at times borders on the miniscule. The artist carves
these fragile pieces from magnolia wood before hand-painting them with
traditional Japanese pigments to produce exact replicas of these natural
flowers. This exhibition will be Suda’s second museum solo show in the
United States.
As works of installation art they are modest,
effacing, and at times nearly invisible. Yet these carvings have an overwhelming
presence that dominates their surroundings. His manner of exhibiting works in
unexpected locations urges the viewer to rediscover the work's surrounding
environment and architectures with fresh eyes and to experience spaces anew. As
such there is a temporal, even performative, aspect to his artistic practice.
Ultimately Suda locates significance in the moments of encounter between the
environment, the sculpted form, and the viewer.
"I do not intend to concentrate merely on
creating realistically. I am interested in things that are created by and messed
with the hand - so much so that the work becomes dirty from too much handling.
The reason why I am attracted to things created by people, is probably because I
am human. However, it is impossible to see only the things that are created in
such a way. When one sees something, there is no way he can eliminate the space
surrounding it. Then, I must consider the work to be more important than the
space--making something that does not exist, exist in a certain place, and
making a time exist only in a certain situation. That ‘thing’ for me
now, is a plant sculpted from wood," said Suda.
For his exhibition at The Contemporary
Museum, the artist will be making several new works based on tropical flowers
that are found in Hawaii. Funding for the exhibition has been provided in part
by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and by The Hara Fund.
Additional support has been provided by Japan Airlines. In-kind contributions
have also been given by the Waikiki Parc Hotel.
Overlook
A
Site-Specific Installation by TCM Artist in Residence: Michael
Arcega
Ongoing
Makiki
Heights Gardens
In July 2009, San
Francisco-based artist Michael Arcega installed a site-specific project for The
Contemporary Museum (TCM). The work will be on exhibit throughout the
Museum’s gardens from July 11 through October 25, 2009. This new work
entitled,
Overlook,
consists of several arboreal structures utilizing the monkey-pod trees on the
property in Makiki Heights. This installation in another in a series of artist
in residence projects TCM has sponsored. The project has been funded in part by
the Nimoy Foundation.
As with Arcega’s previous
works,
Overlook is influenced by language
and wordplay. The title is meant to read as both a physical and a conceptual
position- playing on multiple meanings simultaneously. The form is then open to
interpretation from the viewers’ allegiances and points of
view.
Arcega developed three monkey-pod trees on
the Museum site with structures based on tent architecture connected by a
network of ropes. These abstracted tent structures appear as fruits, parasites,
or growths with familiar skins that hint at domesticity. Seen throughout the
beautiful gardens in Makiki
Heights,
Overlook punctuates the landscape
with colorful shapes and lines. All three arboreal groupings will be seen from
the viewing green near the entrance of the museum. The composition will surround
the viewers as they look skyward.
Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working
primarily in sculpture and installations. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and is
currently working towards a Master of Fine Arts at Stanford University. Michael
resides in San Francisco, California.
His work has been on display in both group
and solo shows in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Detroit,
Seattle, and New York City. Abroad, he has been featured in exhibitions in
Lisbon, Portugal; Malmo, Sweden; Paris France; and Manila, Philippines. He has
participated in residencies at the Fine Art Museum’s De Young Art Center
in San Francisco; at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California;
the 18th St. Art Center in Santa Monica, California, and at the University of
Hawaii-Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii. To learn more about Arcega, visit his web site
at <http://www.arcega.us/>www.arcega.us.
Arcega was the 2008 Murphy and Cadogan
Fellowship in Fine Arts Award winner. He was also given an Outstanding Student
Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award by the International Sculpture
Center in Hamilton, New Jersey.
NOVEMBER
At 21: Gifts and Promised
Gifts in Honor of The Contemporary Museum’s 20th
Anniversary
November 14,
2009 – January 24,
2010
Makiki Heights
Galleries
Organized by TCM;
Curator: James Jensen, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and
Collections
This fall, the
exhibition At 21: Gifts
and Promised Gifts in Honor of The Contemporary Museum’s 20th
Anniversary, will end a year-long
celebration of the museum’s 20th anniversary. Opening November 14, 2009
and remaining on view through January 24, 2010, this exhibition presents
highlights of major gifts and promised gifts made to TCM in recent years. Many
of the works have not been on public display previously. The exhibition is
organized by James Jensen, Deputy Director of Collections and Exhibitions, at
TCM. The exhibition is being supported in part by a grant from the Mayor’s
Office of Culture and the Arts, City and County of Honolulu. This the first
grant TCM has received from the City and County of Honolulu.
Earlier this year TCM exhibited the
extraordinary 20th anniversary gifts from Sharon and Thurston Twigg-Smith of
their collection comprising over 60 H.C. Westermann works and also gifts from
Toshiko Takaezu, including 24 of her ceramic
works. At
21 focuses on the many other gifts
and promised gifts which TCM has received from 2007 through 2009. These come
from collectors, galleries, artists and friends both here in Hawai’i and
from elsewhere.
The works greatly enhance many areas of the
collection, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, ceramics, wood and
glass. Among the artists represented in the exhibition are Paul Wonner, David
Bates, William Wegman, Candida Hofer, Kerry James Marshall, James Surls, Esther
Shimazu, Romare Bearden, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Thomas Struth, Robert Longo,
Ron Kent, Alex Katz, Ed Ruscha, Robert Brady, Roy DeForest, Jim Nutt, Dale
Chihuly, Peter Voulkos, Nathan Oliveira, Masami Teraoka, and Tadashi
Sato.
TCM’s collection has grown in
international significance in the 21 years since the founding of the museum in
1988. Founder Thurston Twigg-Smith donated his personal collection of 1200 works
of art as the foundation for the museum. It has since grown to over 3,000 under
the careful curatorship of Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Collections James
Jensen. The collection includes a large selection of works by artists of
Hawaii, in addition to works by artists from the continental United States, and
a growing representation of artists from Australia, Europe, Japan, and Latin
America.
Particular strengths in TCM’s
collections are photography, contemporary ceramics and ceramic sculpture, and
works on paper. TCM also has one of the world’s largest public
collections of turned wood in America, including works by Rob Fleming, Edward
Moulthrop, Bob Stocksdale, Michelle Holzapfel, among many others. TCM is the
only museum in Hawaii devoted exclusively to contemporary art—the art of
our day and our time.
“This exhibition represents the
commitment to our community by our donors and patrons,” said Jensen.
“TCM is continuing to expand its collections selectively so that we can
provide better programming and art educational opportunities for our island
community which is geographically situated so far from the centers of
art.”
FEBRUARY 2010:
To Be
Announced
February 11
through May 16,
2010
Organized by TCM;
Curator: James Jensen, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and
Collections
To be
announced.
JUNE 2010:
Allyn Bromley Retrospective (b.
1928)
June 12 through August
15, 2010
Organized by TCM;
Curator: James Jensen, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and
Collections
A retrospective of
Hawaii artist Allyn Bromley’s work will be the focus of this TCM-organized
exhibition. Bromley is a graduate of the University of Hawaii’s (UH)
Master of Fine Arts program. A member of TCM’s Board of Trustees and now
retired Professor Emeritus of art from UH, Bromley has been actively involved as
a docent and arts supporter at the museum since its inception in 1988. She was
in the first docent training class conducted by the museum prior to its opening
in October 1988. Bromley was born in San Francisco in 1928. An accomplished
artist, Bromely’s work is in the collection of the Honolulu Academy of
Arts, The Contemporary Museum-Honolulu, and The State Foundation on Culture and
the Arts. A member of Honolulu Printmakers, Bromley has won many awards over the
years.
SEPTEMBER 2010:
The Contemporary Museum Biennial of
Hawaii Artists
(IX)
September 10 through
November 14, 2010
Organized
by TCM; Curator: Inger Tully, Curator of
Exhibitions
Continuing a tradition begun in 1993,
The Contemporary
Museum’s Biennial of
Hawaii Artists IX will be presented
September 10 through November 14, 2010. According to Inger Tully, TCM’s
Curator of Exhibitions the Biennial will feature six – eight selected
artists from throughout the state.
The
Biennial is TCM’s own
signature exhibition. It was conceived as an invitational exhibition to
complement the large juried exhibitions that take place annually in the Islands
and offer a broad overview of contemporary art activity in the State. Over the
last decade or more, the Biennial has become an important venue for highlighting
a sampling of some of the best recent work by artists living and working in the
Hawaiian Islands. Organized by TCM, this invitational exhibition reflects the
diversity and range of work being done in Hawaii today.
Much anticipated by the art community and the
general public, the
Biennial has consistently been one
of TCM’s most well-attended exhibitions. This major art event has fostered
a growing appreciation and wider awareness of the significant achievements of
Island artists, and the accompanying catalogues have served not only as a
document of the exhibitions, but also as a means of disseminating information
and promoting interest in the arts of Hawaii to the Mainland and
abroad.
Each
Biennial features the work of
selected Hawaii artists. Among some of the artists who have been featured in
recent Biennials are: Charles Cohan of Oahu (printmaking); Kaili Chun of Oahu
(installation); Claudia Johnson of Maui (fiber); Jacqueline Rush Lee of Oahu
(installation); Yida Wang (mixed media); Sally French of Kauai (painting);
Masami Teraoka of Oahu (painting); Deborah Gottheil Nehmad of Oahu (works on
paper); Walter G. Nottingham of Hawaii (fiber); Christopher Reiner of Oahu
(sculpture); and Michael Takemoto of Maui (installation), among many
others.
A full-color catalogue with essays on each of
the artists accompanies
the
Biennial exhibition. These
catalogues are available for sale in The Contemporary Museum Shop.
Special
Events:
17th Annual ArtSpree
2010
July 10, 2010; 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.; Free
Galleries
and Grounds
The Contemporary
Museum’s all-day arts festival and open
house,
ArtSpree, is fun, family-friendly
and free for everyone. Parking is provided free all day at Punahou and Maryknoll
Schools. Board free shuttles and ride in comfort up to the Makiki Heights
location. Shuttles run continuously all day. The grounds are filled with
hands-on art activities, artists’ demonstrations, music, dance,
entertainment, food, and exhibitions. Wander the beautiful gardens or through
the galleries, enjoy quality time with your kids, bring the grandparents, and
enjoy a fun family event.
ArtSpree
was born in 1995, after the non-profit support group, Friends of the
Contemporary Museum, hosted an open house to celebrate the Museum’ 5th
birthday. The program enjoyed such a robust attendance and was so well received
by the community, the Friends decided to repeat it annually. Now in its 17th
year,
ArtSpree has become one of the
summer’s most popular art events and family outings. For more information
about the Friends of TCM, visit their website at
<http://www.friendsoftcm.org/>www.friendsoftcm.org.
THE CONTEMPORARY
CAFÉ
Ongoing:
Angry
Woebots
Urban artist Aaron
Martin created this artwork on view at The Contemporary Café. Martin
created his signature panda icon while painting live at
a Studio
One poetry slam. He originally wanted
to paint a grizzly bear, but all he had was white and black paint and some
random colors in little tubes. The angry panda bear theme was born. It caught
on like wild fire and he began painting pandas by popular request and later on
commission. Martin’s Angry
Woebot was featured in a solo show with
80 angry panda portraits. Its popularity continues to grow. Now TCM is a new
venue for his work.
CLOSED:
Heavenly
Garden-
Mike Ledger
THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM AT FIRST
HAWAIIAN CENTER - 999 BISHOP
STREET
Monday-Thursday, 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. First Fridays, 7-9 p.m.;
Free;
All FHC exhibitions are organized
by TCM Curator Inger Tully and underwritten by First Hawaiian Bank. Free Docent
Tours: Third Thursdays at Noon – meet in FHC lobby (when exhibitions are
on view).
OCTOBER
2009:
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.
MARCH 2010:
Ray Yoshida (b.1930 –
2009)
March 12 through June
18, 2010
Organized by TCM;
Curator: Jay Jense, Deputy Director, Collections and
Exhibitions
The Contemporary Museum
(TCM) at First Hawaiian Center will present a memorial tribute to the Kauai-born
artist Ray Yoshida (b.1930-2009), who passed away in Honolulu in January
2009. Ray
Yoshida will be on view March 12
through June 18, 2010. Admission is free during normal banking hours. The
exhibition is organized and curated by James Jensen, TCM’s Deputy Director
for Exhibitions and Collections.
Known for his mysteriously comical,
semi-abstract paintings and collages and four decades of teaching art at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yoshida is credited with influencing
generations of prominent artists. He was among the most admired contributors to
a tradition known as Chicago
Imagism or
the Chicago
School—the post-war tradition of
fantasy-based art making that emerged in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. Among
his students were Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Gladys Nilsson, Karl Wirsum, and
Christina Ramberg, all of whom went on to have noteworthy careers
themselves.
Yoshida’s first mature work was a
series of luminous, jigsaw puzzle-like collages consisting of small images and
fragments of images clipped from comic books and strip arranged in neat rows or
grids on sheets of paper. In the 1970s, he switched to painting, and later
returned to making comic-image collages as well in the early 1990s. In his
paintings, Yoshida created enigmatic, cartoonish images of weirdly stylized
figures in rooms, on stages, and in landscapes. His meticulously and beautifully
rendered paintings brought figuration close to pattern-making and abstraction.
He was influenced by folk and outsider art, of which he was an ardent collector,
and his work was sometimes described as quirky, funky, and idiosyncratic. His
last solo exhibition was in 1999 at Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York City. He
regularly exhibited at the Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago and once, in 1981, at
the Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York and also at the Fleisher Ollman Gallery in
Philadelphia. In 1998, TCM organized a survey exhibition that traveled to the
Chicago Cultural Center in Illinois and the Madison Art Center (now the Madison
Museum of Contemporary Art) in Wisconsin.
He was credited as being a force of cohesion
among, as well as an early supporter of Chicago artists during his career there.
His students described him as “taskmaster,” “enigmatic,”
and “mysterious.” His classroom critiques were often delivered in a
cryptic way and with a light, even-handed irony, according to one of his
students, artist Laurie Fendrich.
Yoshida’s father was a Japanese
immigrant to Hawaii and ran a market in Kapaa. Yoshida attended the University
of Hawaii at Manoa from 1948 to 1950, but interrupted his schooling to serve in
the United States Army during the Korean War. After being posted in Japan and
later discharged, he joined one of his six sisters in Chicago, where she was a
nursing student. He later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953. Five years later, he received a
Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University. In 1959, he began
teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he remained on the
faculty into the early 2000s. His first solo exhibition was in 1960 at the
Middle Hall Gallery in Rockford, Illinois.
Yoshida’s artworks are in several
public collections in Hawaii, including The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Academy of Arts, and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. His works are
also in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Museum of
Contemporary Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, and
the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, Austria.
Ray Yoshida once said he considered his
canvases “the visual gathering place of my fragmented
self.”
The exhibition at The Contemporary Museum at
First Hawaiian Center will comprise works from public and private collections in
Hawaii, as well as many works from the artist’s estate, many of which have
not been exhibited previously.
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