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+/- Selected Works with Paper," by Maya Lea Portner
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Selected Works with Paper,” by Maya Lea
Portner
Art Exhibit at The Contemporary Museum Café Gallery
Art Exhibit at The Contemporary Museum Café Gallery
(Honolulu, Thursday, November 12, 2009, FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE)
The Contemporary Museum (www.tcmhi.org) Café Gallery exhibits, “+/- Selected Works with Paper” by Maya Lea Portner. The exhibition begins November 17 and runs through December 13, 2009. TCM Café Gallery is located at 2411 Makiki Heights Drive in Honolulu, and is open Tuesday – Sunday from 11:30 am – 2:30 pm.
The Contemporary Museum (www.tcmhi.org) Café Gallery exhibits, “+/- Selected Works with Paper” by Maya Lea Portner. The exhibition begins November 17 and runs through December 13, 2009. TCM Café Gallery is located at 2411 Makiki Heights Drive in Honolulu, and is open Tuesday – Sunday from 11:30 am – 2:30 pm.
This selection of two-dimensional work includes
drawings, paper-cuts, and sewn constructions. Through the use of patterns,
Portner investigates the tension between the superficiality of decoration and
the meanings of underlying motifs. This push-and-pull within layers of meaning
is echoed in the artist’s approach to the paper as both surface to work on
and structure to work
with. The
seemingly "decorative" patterns’ symbolic potentials are revealed through
the materiality of the resulting artwork. Pattern implies order; order begets
structure, purpose, meaning, reason,
idea.
Maya Portner holds a BFA in sculpture from Washington
University School of Art, St. Louis and a MFA from the University of
Hawai’i at Manoa, where she studied under Pat Hickman. Portner has been
included in
“Mapped”
and “Contemporary Fiber Artists of
Hawaii” curated by Inger Tully at The
Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, both in 2008. Portner was also
featured as one of 24 international artists in the Holland Paper Biennial 2008,
in Rijswijk, Netherlands, and currently has a sculpture on exhibit at the Museum
of Natural History La
Specola in Florence, Italy, through January
2010. Maya Portner lives -- teaches and makes her art -- in
Honolulu.
For more information please contact Deborah Nehmad,
curator at 542-5779 or inquiry@deborahnehnmad.com
. For more images please contact the artist, Maya Portner at 741-5299 or
queenmoya@aol.com.
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“+/- Selected Works with Paper,”
by Maya Lea Portner
The Contemporary Museum Café Gallery
November 17 – December 13, 2009
2411 Makiki Heights Drive
Café Gallery hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
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“+/- Selected Works with Paper,”
by Maya Lea Portner
The Contemporary Museum Café Gallery
November 17 – December 13, 2009
2411 Makiki Heights Drive
Café Gallery hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
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