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The Contemporary Museum – Makiki Heights
2411 Makiki Heights Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822
Main: (808) 526-1322; Exhibition Info: 526-0232; Café Reservations: 523-3362

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release Updated: October 5, 2009
Contact: Allison Wong, Interim Executive Director
(808) 237-5214; Fax: (808) 536-5970; E-mail: AWong@tcmhi.org; Twitter: TCMHonolulu
Facebook: TCMHI

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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General Information:
The Contemporary Museum - Makiki Heights
Entry: One-Day Membership Pass: $8 Adults; $6 Students & Seniors; Members, Military with ID & Children 12 and under are free. (The fee for a one-day membership pass may be applied to the cost of an annual membership on the day of issue.) It is always free to visit the Museum Shop or the TCM Café. Museum and Shop Hours:  Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday from Noon to 4 p.m.; Closed Mondays and major holidays. The Contemporary Café Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Sunday from Noon to 2:30 p.m. Café Reservations: (808) 523-3362. Docent Tours: Tuesday-Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Cades Library Hours: Tuesday-Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m.; or by special appointment. Parking: Free.  On The Bus: #15 to Makiki Heights Drive-stops in front of the Museum. Address: 2411 Maikiki Heights Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822. Exhibitions/Events Line: (808) 526-0232. Tours/Administration: (808) 526-1322; Web Site: <http://www.tcmhi.org/>www.tcmhi.org. Membership: (808) 237-5219.

The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center: Entry: Free. Hours: Monday-Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Closed on weekends and banking holidays; First Fridays: 7-9 p.m. with Gallery Talk at 7:30 p.m.  Docent Tours: Third Thursdays at Noon. Parking: TCM Members enjoy validated parking.  Address: 999 Bishop Street, Honolulu, HI 96813.

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Allison Wong
Interim Executive Director
The Contemporary Museum
2411 Makiki Heights Drive
Honolulu, HI  96822

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