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University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery

PRESS INFORMATION: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2011

CONTACT:
Wei Fang, 808-387-0960
http://www.hawaii.edu/art/exhibitions/art_gallery/

FAX an exhibition at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery

This spring the University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery will present FAX, a traveling exhibition curated by João Ribas, and co-organized by The Drawing Center, New York and Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. FAX is an evolving exhibition that started in New York in 2009 and has continued to be reconfigured and expanded as it is presented in venues worldwide. FAX invites artists, architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers to think of the fax machine as a drawing tool, resulting in an exhibition concerned with ideas of reproduction, obsolescence, distribution and mediation. This show displaces traditional notions of the hand still commonly associated with the medium of drawing, and instead foregrounds drawing as a generative process.

The first iteration of the exhibition featured a core of works by nearly 100 artists, including seminal examples of early telecommunications art. With every new incarnation, hosting institutions are encouraged to invite additional artists to submit works, which are then permanently added to the show.

The exhibition and the accompanying publication were made possible, in part, by members of the Drawing Room, a patron circle founded to support innovative exhibitions in The Drawing Center’s project gallery; and by support to ICI from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Toby D. Lewis Philanthropic Fund, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and ICI’s Board of Trustees, ICI Benefactor Barbara and John Robinson, as well as the ICI Access Fund. Additional local support of the exhibition is provided by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Department of Art and Art History, College of Arts and Humanities, and Mānoa Arts & Minds, a partnership that cultivates the mind and spotlights the best of art, music, theater, dance and special performances at UH Mānoa; and supported by grants from the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawai‘i and by the National Endowment for the Arts; University of Hawaii’s Student Activity and Program Fee Board and the Waikiki Parc Hotel – Hospitality Sponsor for the Arts at UH Mānoa.

LOCATION
University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery Art Building, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

DATES                  February 26 – April 5, 2012

HOURS & ADMISSION
Monday – Friday 10:30–5:00; Sunday 12:00–5:00.
Closed Saturdays; Spring Break & Prince Kuhio Day, March 26–30.
Admission is free. Donations are appreciated.
Campus parking usually free on Sundays—parking fees may apply all other days/times.

PROGRAM-RELATED SPECIAL EVENTS INCLUDE:

Gallery walk-through with Gallery Directors
Sunday, February 26, from 2:00–3:00 p.m.

Opening Reception
Sunday, February 26, from 3:00–5:00 p.m. The public is invited.

Lecture with exhibition curator JoãoRibas
Date TBD, UH Art Auditorium

All program-related events are free and open to the public.

PUBLICATION
An exhibition catalogue of the works at The Drawing Center will be available for purchase.

PHOTOS
High-resolution digital images for publicity purposes are available upon request.

WEBSITE
Please visit our website for more information.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I ART GALLERY
The Department of Art and Art History includes two galleries that serve the University of Hawaii's diverse academic community. The galleries exhibit faculty and student work, as well as organize and host exhibitions of contemporary and historical art. The University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery and the Commons Gallery provide students and faculty opportunities to conceive, coordinate, and view exhibitions in their own department. The University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery, the larger of the two exhibition spaces, presents a varied program ranging from contemporary local and international artists to thematic exhibitions of art historically significant works.

University of Hawai‘i System
Established in 1907 and fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the University of Hawai‘i is the state’s sole public system of higher education. The UH System provides an array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and community programs on 10 campuses and through educational, training, and research centers across the state. UH enrolls more than 50,000 students from Hawai‘i, the U.S. mainland, and around the world. For more information visit www.hawaii.edu.

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