Contemporary Museum Gallery downtown - First Hawaiian Bank

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Contemporary Museum Gallery downtown - First Hawaiian Bank
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Type: First Friday Event
Date: Friday - 12/4/2009
Time: 7:00 PM
Location:
Contemporary Museum
Gallery downtown
@ First Hawaiian Bank
999 Bishop St. & King St., Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

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Cost: Free

Contact: Allison Wong, Interim Executive Director
(808) 237-5214;

Hiroki, Setsuko and Miho Morinoue
October 9, 2009 – February 19, 2010

The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center

The Morinoue family of artists from the Big Island, Hiroki, Setsuko, and Miho, will be featured in an exhibition of their new works at The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center October 9, 2009 through February 19, 2010. Entry is free during normal bank hours and on First Fridays.

Miho Morinoue (b. 1976 -)
Young Canyon, 2006
Woodblock print on Japanese handmade paper
17 X 22 inches

Living and working out of their studios in Holualoa on the Big Island of Hawaii, married couple Hiroki and Setsuko, and their daughter, Miho, create work that is continuously inspired by each other and by their island surroundings. The range of work planned for this presentation includes prints, sculptures, drawings, paintings, and ceramics.

The Morinoues were instrumental in founding the Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture, a non-profit organization that offers educational and cultural activities for their community. Over the years, Hiroki and Setsuko have hosted many well-known artists such as Red Grooms, Bud Shark, and Bob Arnesson.

Daughter Miho Morinoue is a classically trained ballet dancer who has performed in Europe and North America. She has also designed costumes for the Dance Theatre of Harlem and others. She returned to Hawaii after a 10-year career as a professional dancer.

About the artists:
Hiroki Morinoue: Born in Kealakekua, Hawaii, Hiroki Morinoue first studied painting at the Kona Arts Center before enrolling at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he received his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree. He also spent time in Japan studying with a Master woodblock printer. The skills he acquired there are evident in his direct, elegant, and fluid woodcuts and monoprints.

Hiroki works in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics and prints. In all of his work there is a compelling sense of place; he is a patient observer of nature, its rhythms, cycles and patterns, and these observations become poetic images in his work.

He has shown widely in the United States and Japan; he has completed several major public art commissions including projects at the Honolulu Public Library and the Hawaii Convention Center. His work is represented in the collections of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; the Honolulu Academy of Arts; The National Parks Collection, Maryland; Ueno No Mori Museum, Tokyo, and others.

Setsuko Watanabe Morinoue: Born in Japan, Setsuko is a ceramic and mixed media artist. She is a passionate and dedicated advocate for arts education for children. She is the program director at Donkey Mill. Setsuko dabbled in photography before taking an interest in kusaki-zome (painting with natural dyes) and in the 70’s, after moving to Hawaii, she became immersed in the art of clay.

Today, Setsuko works not only with clay, but has also extended her field of creative works through mixed media in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Her work has been shown in Japan, New York City, California, and Hawaii. She has received several awards for her works in ceramics, painting, and printmaking over the years. Seksuko’s works are in the public and corporate collections including State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, First Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, Kailua-Kona, and Guam, Bank of Hawaii, The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and the offices of Advance Medical Nutrition in Hayward, California.

Miho Morinoue: Miho Morinoue is an acclaimed dancer and a visual artist. As a member of the Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company she performed extensively in the United States and Europe. As a visual artist, she collaborated on numerous projects, designing costumes and setting ballets for Complexions, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Oakland Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet and many others. She has shown her artworks in Hawaii, New York and Seattle, Washington.

Morinoue completed her first lithograph at Shark’s Ink in 2006. The Cove is a tour de force of drawing and imagination. Taking nearly a year to complete the drawing while touring with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, The Cove incorporates portraits of friends and family, Japanese mythology and Hawaiian settings.
Her prints are in the collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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For more information about The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center or the Morinoue family exhibitions, visit our website at www.tcmhi.org; Exhibition Info: (808) 526-0232; Reception: (808) 526-1322. Third Thursdays are free docent-guided tour days at FHC, when exhibitions are on view! Meet the docent in the bank lobby at noon.

ABOUT THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM

In 1996, The Contemporary Museum opened a downtown venue at the First Hawaiian Center in the heart of Honolulu’s busy central business district, which was hailed as “a unique marriage of commerce and the arts.” Generously underwritten by First Hawaiian Bank, these galleries co-exist with banking offices and showcase art by current and former residents and artists of Hawaii. The main banking hall is flanked by a dramatic art-glass wall created by James Carpenter. The wall consists of 185 prisms. The gallery area has a light and airy 60-foot vaulted atrium. Galleries are also located on the second floor mezzanine of First Hawaiian Center.

First Hawaiian Center is the tallest building in Hawaii and the world corporate headquarters of First Hawaiian Bank, Hawaii oldest bank and a multi-billion dollar company established by Charles Reed Bishop, consort of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop and founder of Bishop Museum. The building cost over $175 million to construct and was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates who also built Sotheby’s Worldwide Headquarters, the World Bank Headquarters, and the Shanghai World Financial Center. Walter Dods spearheaded the project and is credited with the idea to include the art gallery in the bank’s public spaces. He is also credited with transforming First Hawaiian into the largest and most profitable bank in the state. The architects made considerable efforts to incorporate as much natural light into the building interiors and used metaphoric designs in reference to natural phenomena found in Hawaii.

All of the profits of the art sales from FHC exhibitions benefit the artists.

Location:

TCM at First Hawaiian Center is located at 999 Bishop Street in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii. Admission is free; Validated parking available for TCM Members with membership card.

Gallery Hours:

Monday-Thursday; 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Friday - 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Closed weekends and bank holidays

First Fridays - 7 to 9 p.m. with Gallery Talk offered at 7:30 p.m. (When exhibitions are on view)

FHC Exhibition Tours:

Guided tours are offered at noon on the third Thursday of each month, when exhibitions are on view.

Exhibition Information:

Phone: (808) 526-1322; Web site: www.tcmhi.org

Staff Contacts:

Curator of Exhibitions - Inger Tully, 237-5230
Director of Museum Advancement - Charlie Aldinger, 237-5231
Assistant to the TCM Director - Gordon Wong, 237-5210

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Contemporary Museum Gallery downtown - First Hawaiian Bank

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