At 21: Gifts and Promised Gifts in Honor of The Contemporary Museum's 20th Anniversary

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At 21: Gifts and Promised Gifts in Honor of The Contemporary Museum’s 20th Anniversary
November 13, 2009 – January 24, 2010
Organized by TCM; Curator: James Jensen, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Collections

Paul Wonner, American, (1920-2008)
To Flora (Second Version), 1985
acrylic on canvas
73 x 94 inches
Gift of Evelyn Twigg-Smith, 2008, in honor of The Contemporary Museum's 20th anniversary

This fall, the exhibition At 21: Gifts and Promised Gifts in Honor of The Contemporary Museum’s 20^th Anniversary, will end a year-long celebration of the museum’s 20^th anniversary. Opening November 13, 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 20^th 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, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Robert Longo, Ron Kent, Alex Katz, Ed Ruscha, Roy DeForest, Peter Voulkos, Donald Sultan, Dorothy Faison, Manuel Neri, William Wiley, Jane Hammond, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Vito Acconci and Davis Levinthal.

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.”

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