The Vie Du Pacifique II Print Folio 2016 is a collaborative project organized by Jennifer Sanzaro-Nishimura, an artist and a faculty member at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. She conceived of the project to resist fear-driven politics that erect false racial and cultural barriers by creating possibilities for artists to have face to face contact in collaborative workshops and residencies throughout the Pacific region.
EXHIBITION
HARRY TSUCHIDANA: WORKS ON PAPER
August 26 – October 5, 2018
The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Exhibition Catalog Available. Contact gallery@hawaii.edu
Sunday, September 2
2:00–3:00 p.m., Talk story with Harry Tsuchidana
3:00–5:00 p.m., Combined opening reception with Emily McIlroy: Noctuary, Commons Gallery
Tuesday, August 28
2:00–2:45 p.m., Talk story with Harry Tsuchidana (Session 1)
3:00–3:45 p.m., Talk story with Harry Tsuchidana (Session 2)
Sunday, September 23
12:00-2:00 p.m., Catalog signing with Harry Tsuchidana
Sunday, September 30
12:00-2:00 p.m., Catalog signing with Harry Tsuchidana
Exhibition Summary
More than eighty diverse drawings and paintings on paper are featured in the exhibition Harry Tsuchidana: Works on Paper, on view at The Art Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM). Although this esteemed living artist has produced an incredible volume of works over the course of his decades-long career and has received much-deserved attention in solo and group exhibitions for his paintings on canvas or board, this is only the second presentation that foregrounds his works on paper. The previous exhibition was held thirty years ago at Honolulu Academy of Arts’ Graphic Arts Gallery.
Rod Bengston, previous gallery director, UHM, selected the works in this exhibition. In conversations with Tsuchidana, Bengston identified seventeen themes and expressions—some of which the artist returned to over and over again throughout decades of his investigations. A selection of Bengston’s notes and observations accompanies the sections in the exhibition.
Recent UHM alumni are also contributing to this exhibition. Joelle Takayama (BFA, 2018) is creating a dynamic fifteen-foot long drawing that portrays the essence of Tsuchidana’s studio. Liezel Bagay (BFA, 2018) is the graphic designer of the accompanying forty-page exhibition catalogue.
Artist Statement
It’s about the process, not about hitting the target. If you hit the target you are lost.
–Harry Tsuchidana, 2018
Artists participating in this exhibition deal with various aspects of the Hawaiian body extended. This can involve kino lau, the many physical forms taken by Hawaiian akua (deities) or ‘aumakua (family deities), but the concept applies to other metaphoric extensions of the collective Hawaiian “body” as well. Artists may address aspects of (reactions to) colonialism as well as the post/colonial Hawaiian body.
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