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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
DEPARTMENT OF ART + ART HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MANOA
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The Haiku as Visual Form: Stanton Macdonald-Wright's the Haiga Portfolio
January 24 - May 8, 2022

The John Young Museum of Art, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), presents The Haiku as Visual Form: Stanton Macdonald-Wright's the Haiga Portfolio.

In 1966-67, the American artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright created the Haiga Portfolio, while working in Kyoto, Japan. The series of experimental prints offer visual interpretations of haiku by seven Japanese poets including Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa. Macdonald-Wright felt the immediacy of the haiku poem could serve as a model for the abstract painting he was interested in developing: It was a form that could quickly get to an essential truth while omitting extraneous detail. In the 20 colorful, quasi-abstract woodblock prints we see Macdonald-Wright revisiting the early 20th century European ideal of making visible relationships between color, abstraction and feeling. The result is a visually spectacular proto-psychedelic series testing the relationship between words and images. 

This exhibition was curated by Dr. Maika Pollack with Olivia Ambo, Graduate Assistant.

This exhibition is made possible by a generous gift from the Jean Sutton Macdonald-Wright Estate. 
 
Address, Hours, Admission
The John Young Museum of Art, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Krauss Hall 2500 Dole Street, Honolulu (UH Mānoa campus)
Sun. – Thur. 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Free admission

Image: Stanton Macdonald-Wright, An octopus trap and fleeting dreams under a summer moon, 1966-1967, woodblock print on mulberry paper, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy of the Jean Sutton Macdonald-Wright Estate

2022 Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidate Exhibitions
January 30 - April 28
Address, Hours, Admission
The Commons Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu (UH Mānoa campus)
Sun. – Thur. 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Free admission
The Commons Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), is very proud to present six exhibitions of new work in an exhibition series of current UHM MFA 2022 degree candidates: Forrest Leonard, Jake Everett, Helena Noordhoff, Sadaf Naeem, Makenzie Davis and Nathan Talamantez.

A Model Childhood: Zoom Talk with Artist Ken Okiishi
Tuesday, March 1, 12:00 - 1:15 PM HST

In this major exhibition, Okiishi meditates on the fraught legacy of Japanese-American history and the model minority myth in the larger contexts of American, global and continuously rewritten fragments of Asian-American history.

Zoom Talk with Ken Okiishi:
Tuesday, March 1, 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. 
Meeting ID: 641 863 5286
Passcode: Manoa2022
Link

The event will be held on Zoom and is free and open to the public with no registration necessary.

Ken Okiishi's presentation is made possible by the generous support of the Clifford Iwao Arinaga Memorial Fund.
 
Address, Hours, Admission
The Art Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu (UH Mānoa campus)
Sun. – Thur. 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Free admission
 
For more information please contact Sharon Tasaka at 808.956.8364 and gallery@hawaii.edu
 
MORE EVENTS @UHMANOA_ART

The Haiku as Visual Form: Stanton Macdonald-Wright's the Haiga Portfolio
Through May 8, 2022,
The John Young Museum of Art

Ken Okiishi: A Model Childhood
Through April 10, 2022, The Art Gallery
 

Coming Soon: Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition
April 24 - May 14, 2022,
The Art Gallery
The gallery program is generously sponsored by: The University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Department of Art + Art History and College of Arts + Humanities; 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 Halekulani Hotel - Hospitality sponsor for the Arts at UH Mānoa; Student Activity and Program Fee Board, UHM; and anonymous donors.

Our mailing address is:
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Department of Art & Art History
2535 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822
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