The Contemporary Museum Opens 2011 with Steven and William Ladd: 9769 Radio Drive January 28 - May 8, 2011

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The Contemporary Museum – Makiki Heights
2411 Makiki Heights Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822
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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release January 5, 2010
Contact: Allison Wong, Executive Director
Ph: (808) 526-1322x14; Direct Line: (808) 237-5214; Fax: (808) 536-5970; E-mail: awong@tcmhi.org
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The Contemporary Museum Opens 2011 with
Steven and William Ladd: 9769 Radio Drive
January 28 - May 8, 2011

HONOLULU, HAWAII—In keeping with The Contemporary Museum’s mission of providing emerging artists with significant opportunities to expand and show their work, TCM presents Steven and William Ladd: 9769 Radio Drive, the first solo museum exhibition for these Brooklyn, New York-based artists. The Ladd brothers have created a large exhibition specifically for the museum’s spaces that provides a significant overview of their art and transforms TCM’s galleries.

The Ladds work collaboratively and frequently draw upon their past experiences for inspiration. The current exhibition includes references to their parents, grandparents, and siblings and 9769 Radio Drive, referenced in the exhibition title, is the address of the home in St. Louis in which they grew up.

Their sculptures initially take the form of towers of handmade boxes which are shown open in the exhibition to reveal dazzlingly elaborate sewn and beaded interiors that could be interpreted as fanciful, mysterious landscapes. Other works incorporate found objects. At the heart of the exhibition is a large installation titled Ant Epidemic, which fills TCM’s largest gallery with images of thousands of small black ants.

Together Steven and William Ladd have forged a body of work that exists in a nexus of text, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, craft/design, and fashion. They have combined a range of techniques, forms, materials, and practices, forging something which is uniquely theirs.

The exhibition is accompanied by a 160-page full-color catalogue, including an essay by well-known art critic, editor, lecturer, author, and curator Janet Koplos, and is available in the TCM Shop.

Steven and William Ladd: 9769 Radio Drive was organized by The Contemporary Museum and curated by James Jensen, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Collections. Beth Rudin DeWoody provided major support for the catalogue, and additional support for the exhibition was received from the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Sharon and Thurston Twigg-Smith.

In-kind contributions for the project have been made by the Waikiki Parc Hotel, Andrew Zuckerman, Chris Finlay, Adam S. Wahler and A2A Solutions, Moab by Legion Paper, and Bill Schultz at William Paul & Associates Limited, New York.

Exhibition Programming:
Saturday, February 5: Gallery Talk
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Join Steven and William as they speak about their work and the impetus behind their community based Heart Scrollathon project.
Free with paid admission to museum.
RSVP Education Department, 808-237-5230.

Saturday, April 2: Gallery Talk
10:30 – 11:30 am
Hear Professor Jaimey Hamilton’s impressions and interpretations of 9769 Radio Drive.
Free with paid admission to museum.
RSVP Education Department, 808-237-5230.

Photo credit: Steven and William Ladd with Tower sculptures
Photo by Andrew Zuckerman

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General Information:
The Contemporary Museum - Makiki Heights
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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. Docent Tours: Third Thursdays at Noon. Parking: TCM Members enjoy validated parking at FHC. Address: 999 Bishop Street, Honolulu, HI 96813.

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