Celebrating Connections: An Exhibit of Contemporary Pacific Artists–November 2-27, 2010
Part of 60th anniversary of the Center for Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Featuring work by seventeen of the most outstanding art-stars of the Pacific region, whose creations have been featured on the cover of The Contemporary Pacific Journal, the world's leading scholarly journal on current Pacific affairs.
Artists’ Panel at the Marks: Wednesday, 3 November, 2010, from 6–8pm
Exhibition Reception: Friday, 5 November, 2010, from 6–10pm coincides with First Friday Honolulu Gallery Walk
Slow Art Friday: 19 November, 2010 from 5–7pm.
Curator: Carl F.K. Pao, Arts Editor for The Contemporary Pacific journal
Artists: Brett Graham (Aotearoa), John Pule (Niue/Aotearoa), Kapulani Landgraf (Hawai‘i), Rongotai Lomas (Aotearoa), Ake Lianga (Solomon Islands), Meleanna Meyer (Hawai‘i), Ric Castro (Guam), Albert Wendt (Samoa/Aotearoa), Larry Santana (Papua New Guinea), Shigeyuki Kihara (Samoa/Aotearoa), Ralph Regenvanu (Vanuatu), Carl F.K. Pao (Hawai‘i), Jewel Castro (American Samoa, U.S.), Lingikoni Vaka‘uta (Tonga/Fiji), Daniel Waswas (Papua New Guinea), Sue Pearson (Norfolk Island/Aotearoa), Michel Tuffery (Samoa/Aotearoa), detailed biographies are available upon request.
The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs is the world’s leading scholarly journal on current Pacific affairs providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. In 2002, the journal also began highlighting the work of contemporary Pacific Islander artists. Barbara Pope designed the cover for TCP which featured the work of Niue artist John Pule. Pule’s work draws on the art traditions of his ancestors to tell the stories both personal and universal. A detail from Pule’s I had a mind as invisible as light (oil and ink on canvas, 2001) graced the first TCP cover to go “beyond the box” used previously. Stacey Leong designed the open template for TCP covers displayed in the rest of this retrospective display of TCP featured artists, 2003–2009.
Marks is proud to host, Celebrating Connections: An Exhibition of Contemporary Pacific Artists and some of the most outstanding art-stars of the region. Many have committed new original work to this exhibit and many more will be visiting for events surrounding this Anniversary celebration.
