University Of Hawai'i Art Gallery - CURRENT & COMING EXHIBITS

Legacy in Ink: Selections from the Print Collection of Charles Cohan

Opening Reception

Date: February 4, 2024, Sunday, 2:00--4:00 PM

Location: John Young Museum of Art

Located in Krauss Hall at 2500 Dole Street Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822

Featuring over fifty artists including Terry Adkins, Emmy Bright, Allyn Bromley with Erin Goodwin-Guerreo, Jaime De la Torre, and Einar De la Torre), Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Lee Chesney, Andrea Dezso, Sally French, Charles Gill, Fred Hagstrom, Helen Gilbert, Andrew Keating, Jacob Lawrence, Allison Miller, Abigail Romanchak, Vuyile C. Voyiya, Joe Singer, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, William Walmsley, Judy Watson, WD40 (Walter Lieberman and Dick Weiss), and Judy Woodborne.

Charles Cohan, Professor and Area Chair of Printmaking in the Department of Art and Art History is a celebrated printmaker, educator, and master printer. The prints presented in this exhibition were selected from over two thousand hand printed works on paper collected since 1984. The collection represents prints by fellow printmakers, printers' proofs produced by Cohan's Arm and Roller Press, international collaborative exchange portfolios, artists books, and zines.

Some prints predate his time at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (1994 to present). During his studies at California College of Arts and Crafts, under master lithographer Charles Gill, he gained an understanding of the act of printing for artists, and the collecting of "printers' proofs" as a byproduct of the artist/printer collaboration. During his graduate work at Cranbrook Academy of Art, as screen printer for the Graphic Design Program he received prints as payment. He was a printer at Stone Press Editions in Seattle, where he had the opportunity to work with Jacob Lawrence, one of the most significant artists of the twentieth-century. To the Defense, examined racial injustice in America. In the early 1990s, Cohan developed a relationship with the printmaking community in Capetown, South Africa, where he editioned prints for the local artists through a multi-year residency at the Jonathan Comerford's Hard Ground Printmakers Workshop.

As a professor at the University of Hawai‘i, for three decades he has generously shared his printmaking expertise with visiting artists, often guiding them through the process of creating a series of prints. Cohan has also participated in workshops in Italy, New Zealand, and Australia both as an artist and as a master printmaker. At Pilchuck Glass School, he printed for a number of artists including Terry Adkins, a conceptual artist who bridged Modernism with African aesthetics, though the use of an alternative matrix. At Anderson Ranch he printed an edition for L.A. based painter Allison Miller. As a professor of printmaking since 1989, the number of student prints that have been contributed to the collection is in the mid hundreds. In addition, Cohan has amassed an archive of over five hundred prints from thirty collaborative portfolio projects, whereby printmakers form a group project centered around the exchange of works from all participants and their collation into portfolios as a "set" inclusive of one print per artist. In addition, he has inherited over one hundred zines and fifty artists books from colleagues around the world.

Cohan sees the importance that a collection of prints can play as an educational tool in academic and creative communities. His collection is a testament to the pursuit of excellence in printmaking that he inspires in his students and the printmaking community.

Address, Hours, Admission:

John Young Museum of Art
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Located in Krauss Hall at 2500 Dole Street Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822

(UH Mānoa campus)

Tue. -- Fri, & Sun. 12:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m.

Free admission

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Amy Lee Sanford Visiting Artist

2024 Arinaga Visiting Artist

February 7-16, 2024

Reception: Sunday, February 11, 2:00--4:00 PM

(Following 1:00PMPerformance)

Artistʻs lecture

Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024, 5:00--6:00 PM

Location: Art Building, Room #101, UH Mānoa

Break Pot Performances, Commons Gallery, Art Building:

Sunday, February 11, 1:00 PM

Monday, February 12, 9:00 AM

Tuesday, February 13, 12:30 PM

Amy Lee Sanford is a Cambodian-American sculptor. Her work explores the intersection of trauma and healing. Working mainly in installation and performance, she reflects on the shattering and rebuilding of Cambodian lives, both at home and in the diaspora, in the wake of decades of war, violence, and genocide. The work is about the shared human experience of loss, trauma, and memory, and focuses on the act of rebuilding, both literally and figuratively, after change, loss, or destruction.

Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and raised in the United States, the artist holds a degree from Brown University in the Visual Arts, with concentrated study in biology and engineering. She furthered her art studies with individual courses at The Rhode Island School of Design, University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth and Harvard University. She has been featured in numerous exhibitions across Southeast Asia, Australia, North America, and Europe.

Amy Sanfordʻs residence at UH is generously funded by the Clifford Iwao Arinaga Memorial Fund for Visiting Artists, with further support from the University of Hawaiʻi Art Gallery and Department of Art and Art History.

Address, Hours, Admission:

The Commons Gallery

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 (UH Mānoa campus)

Tue. -- Fri, & Sun. 12:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m.

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Faculty Exhibition Series Part 3

Closing Reception

Date: February 4, 2024, Sunday, 2:00--4:00 PM

Location: The Commons Gallery

The Commons Gallery, UHM, is pleased to present its Faculty Exhibition Series Part 3, a platform showcasing the exceptional creativity of artist educators. This exhibition challenges norms through diverse approaches to contemporary art and social commentary. The exhibit features video performances, photography, painting, metal fabrication, and ceramic sculpture. Color is key whether it is pink which can read as both tropical and artificial, or the deepest black suggesting an absence of light, but in fact containing all the colors. Some of the works examine gender, identity, and a sense of place often through humor and unexpected juxtapositions.

Artists
Kelly Ciurej, Kalani Largusa, Jenna Macy, Kirsten Rae Simonsen, and Juvana Soliven,

Address, Hours, Admission:

The Commons Gallery
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Located in 2535 McCarthy Mall, Rm 141, Honolulu, HI 96822.

(UH Mānoa campus)

Tue. -- Fri, & Sun. 12:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m.

Free admission

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