Tricky Heritage! opens at the Landesmuseum Hannover in Germany this week and includes work of fellow Native Hawaiian artists Kapulani Landgraf, April Drexell, Kaili Chun, Abigail Romanchak, Marques Marzan and myself. The show runs through February 26, 2017 so if you happen to be in Germany, please stop by to see it.
I have had a wonderful time in the Artist in Residence Program at the MAD. Join us tonight, Thursday, June 2nd in the MAD Theater at 6pm for a Pecha Kucha presentation of our work followed by a closing reception on the 6th floor. Hope to see you there!
http://www.madmuseum.org/events/artist-studios-pecha-kucha-talk-and-closing-reception
The bad news is that my first residency at the Museum of Arts and Design is over and I will really miss the other five residents. But the good news is that the M.A.D. asked me to stay for the Spring term, so I get another four months at this awesome institution! If you happen to be off on Wednesdays or just want to come and hangout during your lunch break, please drop me a line. I'd love to meet you :)
What are you doing next Saturday?
I hope you'll join Sustainable Coastlines at Waimanalo Beach Park to help cleanup the beach. Check in is at 9am, cleanup 9:30am - 12pm, music and games 12pm - 2pm. So come on down to Get your Earth Day on!
Written in Stone, found books, 2016
February 5-June 6, 2016 in the Maslow Galleries
Ever contemplate a future where domestic bookcases, communal libraries, commercial bookstores, and hand-me-down schoolbooks will be things of the past and reading for most will become a digital experience? What will happen to all of the obsolete publications in print? For the artists in Between the Covers: Altered Books in Contemporary Art, found and mass-produced books are their expressive medium of choice. Viewing themselves as collaborators with their source material, they transform them into sculptures and installations of all sizes and shapes. Beyond exploiting physical and sensorial properties, the artists improvise with content, both text and image. In answer to the looming demise of the printed publication, the exhibition argues that in giving books new life as unique works of art, the artists are opening up fresh possibilities of meaning and relevance. Approaches range from folding, drilling, shredding, carving, stacking, ripping, sewing, pasting, burning, and sanding to collage and assemblage. In reshaping both subject and material, the artists repackage our personal attachment to the written text as a catalyst for memory and the imagination while rekindling our sensorial response to the book’s physicality. And as they draw attention to communal and personal associations of books and reading, they explore alternate ways to knowledge and history, the cycle of creation and decay, and the passage and compression of time. Between the Covers is exclusive to the Everhart Museum and is guest curated by Sarah Tanguy.
Designed by participating artist Lisa Hill, the Between the Covers interactive PDF is available for download here.
Artists: Noriko Ambe, Maria Anasazi, Doug Beube, Caryl Burtner, Long-Bin Chen, Byron Clercx, Brent Crothers, Brian Dettmer, Jessica Drenk, Shiela Hale, Lisa Hill, Jeffrey Kent, John Kirchner, Lisa Kokin, Carole P. Kunstadt, Guy Laramée, Susan Lenz, Corwin Levi, So Yoon Lym, Scott McCarney, Pamela Paulsrud, Buzz Spector, Robert The, Maika’i Tubbs.
Lenders: Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas; JHB Gallery, NY; Frederieke Taylor Gallery; International Arts & Artists’ Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, Gift of John and June Hechinger; Scranton Public Library; P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York; Galerie Myrtis; Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, California.
Exhibition support is provided in part by a grant from Pagnotti Enterprises, Inc. & Lackawanna Insurance Group, with additional assistance from Joseph & Lisa Curtin, Scranton Area Foundation & Stifel Nicolaus.