Art & Art History News - April 9, 2024

Awards Ceremony & Reception: THIS FRIDAY!! April 12, 2024, 4:00-6:00PM
Exhibition in the Visual Arts Complex: Wednesday, April 10 - April 19, 2024 

Undergraduate Finalists:
Lisa An, Annabelle Farris, Sarah Mak, Alice Neild, Brooke Schuh

Graduate Finalists:
Dati Alsaedi, Ana González Barragán, Cody Norton, Silvia Alejandra Saldivar Romero, Natalie Thedford

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Image: Lisa An, Untitled, October 2023, photographic print on matte paper, 20in x 30in with borders

Monday, April 22 at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium 1B20

Born in 1947, in Holualoa on the Island of Hawaii, Hiroki Morinoue received his BFA degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA) in 1973. For Hiroki the landscape of Hawaii, its light, rocks, skies, and water has deeply influenced his work alongside the aesthetic of Japanese arts, crafts and landscaped gardens, which is prevalent in his work. In all of Morinoue's work there is a compelling sense of place, curiosity and dialogue between the art and its viewer. He transcends these observations in various mediums, including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed media paintings, monotypes, sculptures, photography, ceramics and Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock prints). He has completed several major public art commissions, including projects at the Honolulu Public Library, and for the Hawaii Convention Center. Hiroki's work is represented in art collections around the world.

Born in Kanagawa, Japan, Setsuko began her interest in art through photography in high school. Later it transformed into the love for fiber art in Kusaki and Roketsu-zome, a Japanese natural dye with wax resist. She began her journey with clay at the Kona Arts Center in Holualoa. Setsuko is mainly self-taught by exploring and experimenting while taking many workshops throughout her career by well-established artists. She has participated in numerous group shows in Japan, Hawaii, and the US Mainland. Her works are in numerous private, public and corporate collections.

Hiroki and Setsuko Morinoue established Studio 7 Fine Arts Gallery in November 1979, as the first and now longest-standing contemporary art gallery in Hawaii. A humble space in a small village with a charmed history, the gallery holds an open-ended mission: to create and promote Contemporary Art.

Currently on View at CU Art Museum [Round 1]
April 6–18, 2024
Artists featured: Brianna Autin, Erin Hyunhee Kang, Dani Wasserman, Elisa Wolcott

Next exhibition: April 27–May 11 [Round 2] 
Opening reception: Fri. April 26 from 4–6 PM
Artists featured: Natalie Thedford, Noa Fodrie, Aunna Moriarty, Cody Norton 

Visual Arts Complex, Rm 303
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 9:00-10:45 AM

9:00 AM — Welcome, introductions, Albert Alhadeff, Director of Graduate Studies, Art History
9:15-9:30 — Brittany Ashley, Collections as Medium
9:30-9:45 — Kat Bertram, Manga Introduction to Nichiren: Unveiling Nichiren Buddhism through Manga Study Aids
9:45-10:00 — Natalie Ginez, Hybridity and Indigeneity in Colonial Ecuador
BREAK
10:15-10:30 — Sam Hensley, Gathering for Tea: Modernity, Material Culture, and Tea Ceremony in Japan and Abroad
10:30-10:45 — Taite Shomo, Theatre of the Horrible: Self-Immolation, Violence, and Representation
10:45-11:00 — Bella Malherbe, Bhekisisa, Sakouli Beach, Mayotte: The Black Queer Figure as an Apoptotic Agent of the Anthropocene

Join us on Tuesday, April 16, 3:30 - 4:30pm in the 3rd floor lobby of the Visual Arts Complex for a reception celebrating the Art History Showcase. This exhibition highlights Art History students’ research and coursework, raises the visibility of their scholarship, and honors their accomplishments. Refreshments will be served. The exhibition will be on view April 15-19, 2024.

Participants include M.A. candidate Kat Bertram (Manga Introduction to Nichiren: Unveiling Nichiren Buddhism through Manga Study Aids) and B.A. with Honors candidate Bella Malherbe (Bhekisisa, Sakouli Beach, Mayotte: The Black Queer Figure as an Apoptotic Agent of the Anthropocene), as well as students in Professor Brianne Cohen's capstone seminar: Photo and Political Violence, who have collaborated to create the "Waging Peace Through AI" exhibition.

Waging Peace Through AI
This exhibition investigates the potential of generating AI-based images to advocate for peace. Each artwork has been created using AI-generating software, and students have conceived the artworks in the context of an undergraduate course, Photography and Political Violence. In the seminar, we have examined photographic histories of more visible violence from centuries of wars and genocide (e.g. WWII and the Holocaust, the Vietnam War) as well as more invisible, structural violence (e.g. racism in the U.S. prison system, the AIDS epidemic). The title of the exhibition is an homage to another contemporary, widely circulating exhibition, “Waging Peace in Vietnam,” about the efforts of U.S. soldiers and veterans who opposed the war.

Image caption: Audrey Lebsack, The Vietnam American War