JENNA MACY: DEEPEST DARKEST SEACRET—MASTERPIECE OF LOVE

An exhibition by MFA degree candidate Jenna Macy

MEGAN BENT: LATENCY

An exhibition by MFA alumna Megan Bent

TOKYO MIDTOWN 2019 ART COMPETITION WINNER KORO IHARA: Made in Earth

An exhibition of the winner of the Tokyo Midtown annual art and design competition.

MARY KIM / GGOT BYEOL: LOVE OF TWO STARS

Abstract painting by Mary Kim
An exhibition by MFA degree candidate Mary Kim

ATTRIBUTE : EDWARDS + PORTNER + SOLIVEN

Christopher Edwards artwork detail
September 1 – October 18, 2019 / The Art Gallery
One of the most common questions asked of artists is what inspires our work. To address this head on I have invited three Hawai‘i-based artists to create new projects that combine their own artworks with the actual sources of their inspiration.

KA-NING FONG : THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Ka-Ning Fong Painting
September 23 – October 11, 2019 / Commons Gallery
Ka-Ning Fong has been making urban landscape paintings across the globe for over thirty years. This exhibition focuses on those he made within the past ten years in Honolulu’s Chinatown, the neighborhood of his painting studio. In them he emphasizes the dramatic changes in familiar sites, sometimes with near prophetic forecasting its imminent demise.

Francis Haar / Then and Now

Aala Area Street Map with markers
Locations of 18 photographs included in the exhibition Francis Haar : Disappearing Honolulu have been identified. Below pairs…

Cody Anderson: Spending Time

Two images of an open window; one shaded with pencil and one colored
October 14 – November 1, 2019 / Commons Gallery
Spending Time is a demonstration of applied learning. Anderson displays the outcomes of three acts of prolonged observation, respectively of a window view, a young bonsai tree, and a coconut palm frond. Anderson’s durational drawing and video work look to gain a sense of the world through careful attention to pace and scale.

BRAD EVAN TAYLOR : RIFT

November 3 – December 13, 2019 / The Art Gallery
An opening made by splitting or cleaving, to burst open or split. Geologically, rift refers to a feature exposed through tearing the earth’s crust. Rift is an action which exposes the space between, and makes the hidden visible. Taylor’s exhibition is about transformation and metamorphosis. He is fascinated by the reorganization of material and form through process.

MYTHS AND MORTALITY: CERAMIC STUDIO RECENT WORKS

Detail of ceramic sculpture by Jenna Manglallan
November 3 – 27, 2019 / Commons Gallery
Myths & Mortality is an exposition of work created by seven artists working in the UHM Ceramics Area. The work as a whole addresses the ideas of transformation, hybridity, non-ordinary states of consciousness, remembrance, and death through evocative and vivid ceramic sculpture.

CURRENT

Heroes, Poets, Gods, and Monsters: From Gekkō’s Brush
Ea Mai Ke Kai Mai: 2025 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition
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