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SEPT · OCT · NOV 2015 EXHIBITIONS HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART SCHOOL Nanogallery: Liz Miller • September 1–30 Wake Up We’re Here: Analog Sunshine Recorders September 1–23 Opening reception: September 19 • 5:30–7:30pm Hawai‘i’s Woodshow: Na La‘au o Hawai‘i Hawai‘i Forest Industry Association’s Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition September 20–October 11 Opening reception: September 19 • 5:30–7:30pm Korean Artist Association of Hawaii Featuring: Hwang Bung Sik • September 26–28 Nanogallery: Kaili Chun • October 1–31 Deselect the Preset: Honolulu Printmakers & LRC October 5–30 • Closing reception: October 27 Aloha Members, Thinking about what Sam and Wes accomplished At the June meeting of the Board of at the museum also led me to reflect on why our Ikebana: Bringing Peace and Harmony museum is thriving today. The combination of great Ikenobo Ikebana Society Honolulu Chapter Trustees, two long-serving members retired. October 15–18 art, effective education programs and an engaged Auguste Rodin: Opening reception: October 15 • 9–10am Wesley Park, who joined the Board in 1981, public is what makes it all work. A clear example of was elected Emeritus Trustee. Sam Cooke, great art is our current exhibition Auguste Rodin: The Human Experience 48th Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition Hawaii Craftsmen • October 28–November 20 The Human Experience: Selections from the Iris & B. the great-grandson of the museum’s Selections from the Opening reception: October 27 • 5:30–7:30pm founder Anna Rice Cooke, joined the board Gerald Cantor Collections, which includes his iconic The Thinker. It is a sculpture that should make us stop Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collections Nanogallery: Tomoki Kobayashi & Alec Singer November 1–30 in 1969. Sam served as Chair from 1975 to and think about what we are doing, why we are doing Through Jan 10 1981 and then, remarkably, again from 1997 it and perhaps encourage all of us to be just a little La Bella Figura: George Woollard, Anthony Lee more thoughtful in our own lives. and Students • November 7–28 to 2007. He was elected Honorary Chair Opening reception: November 6 • 5:30–7:30pm The museum is now on sound financial footing— Artists of Hawai‘i 2015 Emeritus for Life by the board. we ended another fiscal year in the black. I have posted Through Oct 25 Art School Holiday Sale • November 25–December 1 (See more on Wesley and Sam on p. 25.) on our website our full audit report if you would like Opening reception: November 24 • 5:30–7:30pm Transitions such as these are a time to reflect, and to know the details. Thanks to you, our board, and our Splendor and Serenity: I think about how both men served with distinction very capable staff we are doing very well. Korean Ceramics from the and grace, ensuring for a generation that the museum Honolulu Museum of Art SPALDING HOUSE was stewarded for the public trust. Sam and Wesley Sincerely, Through Nov 8 were two members of an extraordinary group of See p.10 for public programs. 35 individuals who comprise the Board of Trustees. Maya Lea Portner: TXT/MSG • Through January 10 I will miss these two community leaders, but I am Urbanophilia/Urbanophobia— An exhibition about the message behind words, images, objects, and experiences. comforted by the fact that many talented, dedicated Love and Fear of the City people will continue to move our mission forward. STEPHAN F. F. JOST Through Sept 13 Orvis Artist in the Museum: Lauren Trangmar Director October 10–November 15 2 EXHIBITIONS 3 . Kawaii, Decora and Public Fairy Kei are other Tokyo streets have been aspects of Japanese a showcase for new fash- programs: culture encompassing ions and trends, taking Minori: Shironuri entertainment, food, inspiration from cultures . Demonstration fashion, and toys that overseas resulting in a Nov 20 • 6–8pm • Art School . Room 101 • Free affected personal multitude of derivations. call 532.8741 to register . appearances and behavior. The power of youth and . Kawaii means “cute” or members of a subculture. Featured in Harajuku: Tokyo . “pretty,” while Decora, of common values, atti- Street Fashion is Minori, who short for “decoration” is tudes and norms is credit practices the art of shironuri, which means “painted in white” TOKYO STREET FASHION dominated by the use of to an innovative lifestyle . and is the traditional style of . pastels or bright colors of radical, outrageous makeup used by geishas and in an array of hair clips attitudes showcased here Kabuki actors. She is a key . and bows, in an excessive in Harajuku: Tokyo Street figure in Tokyo’s street fashion . scene (she has appeared in NOVEMBER 19, 2015–APRIL 3, 2016 application of layering Fashion. Vogue and is regularly covered accessories including furry —SARA OKA, by the blog tokyofashion.com). .Harajuku: . Tokyo Street A distinct, formal assem- . toys. and plastic jewelry. Curator of Textiles At this free event, Minori will blage, known as the Unicorns and rainbows demonstrate how to apply Fashion highlights shironuri on a model. Lolita look, a princess- are cherished motifs. recent fashion trends like image of a Victorian in forming the nexus of doll wearing. .a dress. with imaginative blends radi- ruffles, a bonnet, ribbons, flat shoes, is often hidden ating from the Harajuku . under a blonde wig. The . district. 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Dolly Kei WONDER . incorporates. jewel tones QUEEN BY as well as bold prints, floral ANGELIC headpieces, tassels, furs PRETTY . and embroidered bags. 4 EXHIBITIONS. EXHIBITIONS. 5 . .. - Days of Grace November 12, 2015–March 6, 2016 Days of Grace features a selection of Grace Hudson’s rarely seen portraits and landscape paintings from her 1901 stay in Hawai‘i, along with items of Hawaiian mate- rial culture acquired by the artist during her visit. Best known for her portraits of the Pomo Native American people living near her Ukiah, California home, Hudson’s work in Hawai‘i maintained a figura- This exhibition is organized by tive focus, depicting primarily Native Hawaiian and Grace Hudson Museum & Sun House, Asian women and children rendered with a preference Ukiah, California. for accuracy over improvisation. Her artistic approach, The Honolulu presentation is funded in part by which veers away from the romantic and toward the the Dolores Furtado Martin Foundation. Women Artists in Hawai‘i: 1900–1950 ethnographic, was a consistent theme across her long career as a painter. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 September 3, 2015–February 28, 2016 Hudson is one of a small but important echelon of early 20th-century female artists who boldly This page: traveled independently to Hawai‘i while honing their Grace Hudson See artwork created by female artists working a departure from what were commonly professional artistic careers. With Georgia O’Keeffe, (American, 1865–1937) Hapa Haole in Hawai‘i in the early half of the 20th century. accepted artistic parameters for females Dorothy Thorpe, and Frederica Gordon-Cummings, Oil on canvas The show includes artists who were longtime through their choice of subject matter, media, and the resident female artists Helen Whitney Kelley, The collection of Sam and Mary Cooke residents as well as visitors to the islands, all style, or scale. Juliette May Fraser, Madge Tennent, and Genevieve of whom found rich artistic content in their The exhibition also highlights designs by Springston Lynch, Hudson’s oeuvre exemplifies Opposite page: surroundings, and were compelled to inter- female artists whose creative output made artwork informed by prewar Hawai‘i. You can see Mabel Alvarez the work of many of these artists who exhibited with (American, 1891–1985) pret their experience in Hawai‘i through their their way into Japanese textiles and American The Brothers Moses Hudson, and who contributed to Hawai‘i’s eclectic and John, 1940 work. Genevieve Springston Lynch, Madge glassware production. Together, the selected art scene, in the exhibition Women Artists in Hawai‘i: Oil on canvas Tennent, and Lillie Gaye Torrey among others artists exemplify how conceptions of Hawai‘i’s Gift of The Contemporary 1900–1950, on view in the museum’s John Dominis Museum, Honolulu, 2011 were instrumental figures in Honolulu’s people and natural environment circulated and Patches Damon Holt Gallery through Feb. 28. and gift of the artist (TCM.1983.3.1357) burgeoning art scene. Their work proved across the Pacific. —HJ © 2015, Mabel Alvarez Estate —HEALOHA JOHNSTON, assistant curator, Arts of Hawai‘i 6 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS 7 Dropping In: First Recent Work by Tom Lieber Wendy Kawabata: In the Land October 2, 2015–January 3, 2016 Dividing his time between Kaua‘i and Hawaiian Los Angeles, Tom Lieber continues to draw This exhibition of a mixed-media fiber work and a on a strong V shape as the central image in series of drawings related to the artist’s experience his work. The idea of dropping, as into deeper meditation, into a wave, into a creative vision, at a 2011 residency in Iceland presents a visual Center is a strong force in Lieber’s paintings, which contradiction, questioning the balance of industry use gestural strokes and many layers.