University Of Hawai'i COMMONS GALLERY, Art Building - ART EXHIBITION - The Visitors, an MFA Thesis exhibition by Elizabeth R. Curtis

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Department of Art & Art History
University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery

PRESS INFORMATION: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 23, 2011
Contact: Elizabeth Curtis, 808.224.2292, ercurtis@hawaii.edu

Images: 3 jpgs attached, higher resolution images available upon request if needed. All photographs
by Elizabeth R. Curtis, 2010. Titles as follows:
Jennifer & Alexis Berryman, Nov. 11, 2010
Uwe Welz, Feb. 21, 2010
Camden Sweeney, Oct. 1, 2010

ART EXHIBITION: The Visitors, an MFA thesis exhibition by Elizabeth R. Curtis
Photographic portraits of visitors at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Waiamea Bay Beach Park, and the
Battleship Missouri Memorial, shot in a manner reminiscent of Victorian portraiture and tableaux.

Location: Commons Gallery, Art Building, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Dates: February 13-25

Opening Reception: Sunday, February 13, 3-5p.m.

Gallery hours:
Monday–Friday 10:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Closed Presidents' Day, February 21st

Exhibition Summary: This show is an examination of what it means to be a “visitor.” It explores
issues of identity, preservation, and globalism through photographic imagery. Subjects are portrayed
in a manner that references formal Victorian portraiture conventions against the backdrop of three
contemporary “sites”- the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Battleship Missouri Memorial, and Waimea
Bay Beach Park. The locations where the images were created form a loose representative triad of
history, nature, and culture. The categories overlap, merge, and fold over on themselves to create a
snapshot of an increasingly globalized world in which we all traverse as mere or mighty visitors.

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