Andrew Rose Gallery Featuring LINDA KĀNE - NĀ MAHINA I HALA

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Andrew Rose Gallery Featuring LINDA KĀNE - NĀ MAHINA I HALA
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Type: Art Exhibition
Date: Friday - 2/3/2012
Time: 6-9pm
Location:
Bishop Square
Pauahi Tower
1003 Bishop Street
Suite 12
Ground Floor
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: 1 (808) 599-4400

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ANDREW ROSE GALLERY is proud to present LINDA KĀNE - NĀ MAHINA I HALA, an exhibition of paintings from the last two years inspired by the artistʻs travels in the American Mid-West and personal memories of Hawaiʻi. Opening Friday, January 13, 2012, and running through Saturday, February 24, 2012, the gallery will host a reception for the artist on First Friday, February 3rd from 6-8pm.

Kāneʻs ink and shellac paintings on gessoed watercolor paper are subtle monochomes that invoke 19th Century artists including Ralph Albert Blakelock, Caspar David Friedrich, Edward S. Curtis and Matthew Brady. Kāneʻs nostalgiac images are reminiscent of and engage with Victorian travel views, Romantic paintings of the Sublime, Old World folk tale iconography, and pioneer imagery during the American era of Manifest Destiny. Of these “Lost Landscapes,” natural places that are simultaneously misplaced and forgotten, Kāne reminds us in a time of visible man-made impact on a fragile environment that “we donʻt want to forget the past as it informs the future. Now with GPS, we can find any place in the world. The poet Simon Ortiz notes his Native American ancestors felt Mother Earth was home and he thinks wilderness is in the cities.”

Nā Mahina i Hala, the title of the exhibition, was given to her by her granddaughter, a Kamehameha High School senior, to acknowledge the Past Moons within the stories of Kāneʻs life and art. “Salt Lake, Oʻahu, in the 70s has been on my mind lately,” recalls Kāne, on the content of her latest works. “There were deer and ducks and wallabees there. There used to be no road there. The lake, the wild way it used to be keeps popping into my head, with the moon over it,
reflecting....”

Kāne has lived and worked on the island of Oʻahu since arriving as a teenager in the late 1960s. She grew up in Illinois, where she saw her first European painting, Cezanneʻs “Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan,” 1885/6, as a freshman high school student. “What I was so fascinated with, what was so interesting to me was the spaces between the branches, with the flexing back and forth. Everything was unified.” To this day, Cezanneʻs spatial compression informs her studio work and lays the foundation for these new paintings on paper.

After earning her BFA in 1970 and MFA in 1988 from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Kāne became a lecturer in painting and drawing at the University and an Instructor at the Honolulu Academy of Arts Linekona School; she has also instructed at Chaminade University, Kapiʻolani Community College and Leeward Community College. Represented in the public collections of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, The Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, First Hawaiian Bank, American Savings Bank, Persis Corporation, HMHB Coalition of Hawaiʻi, and Kapiʻolani Community College,

ANDREW ROSE GALLERY focusses on presenting important contemporary as well as vintage art with significant connections to Hawai‘i. Its roster of professional, museum-quality artists includes Carol Bennett, Bradley Capello, Gaye Chan, Charles Cohan, Vince Hazen, Linda Kāne, Wayne Levin, Marcia Morse, Noreen Naughton, Abigail Romanchak, Mamoru Sato, Dalani Tanahy, Yida Wang and Wayne Zebzda who are recognized by collectors and critics internationally for their artistic achievements. The gallery’s 1003 Bishop Street - Pauahi Tower address at the center of O'ahu's Downtown Arts District is just makai of Hotel Street. Parking entrance is left off Alakea before Hotel.

Hours: Monday – Thursday: 10 – 6; Friday: 10 – 4; Saturday: 10 – 1; and by appointment.

About Andrew Rose Gallery

Established in Honolulu in 2010, the ANDREW ROSE GALLERY works with individual clients as well as international institutions to place important vintage and contemporary art significant to Hawai‘i in discerning collections.

Original vintage art by the following artists who have significant connections to Hawai‘i: Bumpei Akaji, José Arago, Charles Bartlett, Charles Furneaux, D. Howard Hitchcock, John Kelly, Genevieve Springston Lynch, Huc-Mazelet Luquiens, Alexander Samuel MacLeod, Joseph Nawahi, Jerry Okimoto, Ambrose Patterson, Tadashi Sato, Lloyd Sexton, Jr., Joseph Dwight Strong, Augustus Vincent Tack, Jules Tavernier, Lionel Walden, + John Webber. Please contact the gallery by clicking here if you would like more information about consignment.

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HOURS
M - Th: 10 - 6
F: 10 -4
S: 10 - 1

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Andrew Rose Gallery Featuring LINDA KĀNE - NĀ MAHINA I HALA

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