University Of Hawai'i - ART EXHIBITION:� NEW NEW YORK: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century

ART EXHIBITION: NEW NEW YORK: Abstract Painting in the 21^st Century

October 4 -- December 4, 2015

The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Art Building

NEW NEW YORK: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century examines the phenomenon and reasons for the resurgence of abstraction. Works by 29 New York artists are featured.

SPECIAL EVENTS: (All events are free and open to the public.)

Sunday, Oct. 4, The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

2:00 -- 3:00 p.m. Gallery walk-through with NEW NEW YORK curators Liam Davis and Debra Drexler and artist Barbara Takenaga

3:00 -- 5:00 p.m. Opening reception

Monday, Oct. 5, ART Auditorium

6:00 -- 7:30 p.m. Panel discussion with NEW NEW YORK curators Liam Davis and Debra Drexler and artists Paul Behnke, Amanda Church, and Lucas Moran

Tuesday, Oct. 6, ART Auditorium

6:00 -- 7:30 p.m. An Overview of Works by Barbara Takenaga

Lecture by Intersections Visiting Artist Barbara Takenaga

Sunday, Nov. 1, The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

2:00 -- 3:00 p.m. Gallery walk-through with curator Debra Drexler

Wednesday, Nov. 18, ART Auditorium

6:30 -- 8:00 p.m. Revolution in (Re)Form: More Thoughts on Abstract Painting Today

Lecture by author and NEW NEW YORK essayist Marco Antonini

Antonini's eponymous essay is a departure point for this lecture

EXHIBITION SUMMARY:

A renaissance of abstraction has recently surfaced across New York. The sine qua non of modern art, abstraction fell out of favor in the late twentieth century with the emergence of postmodernism and its concepts of paradox, pastiche and deconstruction. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction has arisen from the ashes of its professed death with a power and potency rivaling its inception. This phenomenon is not a return to modernist history, but is specific to our current century. The reasons for the resurgence of abstraction and its new approaches are considered in NEW NEW YORK: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century.

Artists featured in NEW NEW YORK are: Elise Adibi, Jonathan Allmaier, Timothy Atticus, Paul Behnke, Amanda Church, Vince Contarino, Paul Corio, Peggy Cyphers, Theresa Daddezio, Lisa Corinne Davis, Rob de Oude, Jon Elliott, Robert Otto Epstein, Franklin Evans, Rico Gatson, Enrico Gomez, Clare Grill, Shirley Kaneda, Julie Mehretu, Lucas Moran, George Negroponte, Odili Donald Odita, Gary Petersen, Jenna Ransom, Jered Sprecher, Barbara Takenaga, Julie Torres, Terry Winters, Robert Yasuda, and John Zinsser.

Debra Drexler and Liam Davis are the curators of NEW NEW YORK.

PUBLICATIONS:

A brochure and a print-on-demand catalogue for NEW NEW YORK: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century will feature an essay entitled Revolution in (Re)Form: More Thoughts on Abstract Painting by Marco Antonini, executive director and curator at NURTUREart Non Profit, Inc. The print-on-demand catalogue also includes essays by the curators Liam Davis and Debra Drexler and images of all of the artworks in the exhibition. The catalogue will be available at www.blurb.com/bookstore. The brochure features a selection of works.

SPONSORS: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa's Department of Art + Art History and College of Arts + Humanities; Intersections Visiting Artist + Scholar Program; 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; and supported by Waikiki Parc Hotel -- Hospitality Sponsor for the Arts at UH Mānoa; Student Activity and Program Fee Board, UHM; GalleryHNL; and anonymous donors.

ADDRESS, HOURS, + ADMISSION:

The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu (UH Mānoa campus)

Mon. -- Fri. 10 am -- 4 pm; Sun. 12 -- 4 pm

Closed: Saturdays; Veterans Day, Nov. 11; Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26; non-instructional day, Nov. 27.

Free admission. Donations are appreciated. Parking fees may apply.

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