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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES:


John Young, His Life and Work
September 1, 2024 – December 8, 2024

Gallery Walkthrough with Deborah Young,
Kate Lingley and Debra Drexler
Date: Sunday, November 10, 2024 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: John Young Museum of Art, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM)
 
 
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the John Young Museum of Art, John Young, His Life and Work celebrates the joie de vivre, complexity and power of Young’s work. John Young produced a range of art pieces that deftly demonstrate both experimentation and engagement with critical art movements of his time.

Deborah Young was born and raised in Hawaiʻi. She has studied at the Honolulu Museum of Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been shown in numerous juried exhibitions and can be found in collections throughout the Islands, Japan, and Korea. Selected exhibitions include Koa Gallery, Iolani Gallery, Cedar Street Gallery, Hawaiʻi Pacific University, Gallery at Ward Center, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Andrew Rose Gallery, and Honolulu Museum of Art.

Kate A. Lingley is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research focuses on Buddhist votive sculpture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, with a particular interest in the social history of religious art in medieval China. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the lives of Buddhist women in medieval China, as seen through the votive monuments they dedicated, and an edited collection on the epigraphic evidence for women’s role in early Buddhism across Asia.

Debra Drexler is an artist, curator, the Interim Director of the Museums and Galleries and Professor of Drawing and Painting at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has curated John Young His Life and Work (2024), Satoru Abe, 100 New Paintings (2024), Tribute to Satoru,(2024), Mai Nā Kūpuna Mai (2024), among others at the UHM Galleries and John Young Museum of Art. She been in over 30 solo exhibits and hundreds of group shows. Significant exhibits by Drexler include Flirt: Helen Frankenthaler and Debra Drexler (2022), ART SHE SAYS, NY, and Anne Kendall Richards Gallery, NY, Front Room Gallery, NY (solo 2019), Drawing Center, NY (2014), Exit Art, NY (2010-11), White Box–The Annex, NY (solo, 2005), Honolulu Museum, HI (solo, 2002), and The Schaefer International Gallery of Maui Arts and Cultural Center, HI (solo, 2003, three-person 2021).
 
 
John Young Museum of Art 
Address, Hours, Admission:
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Krauss Hall at 2500 Dole Street, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
(UH Mānoa campus)
Tue. – Fri, & Sun. 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Free admission

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Nana I Ke Kumu, Pay Attention to the Source

Michele Zalopany
Exhibition November 3rd to December 8
 
Gallery Walkthrough
Date: Sunday, November 3, 2024 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Location: Commons Gallery, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM)

Opening Reception
Date: Sunday, November 3, 2024 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: Commons Gallery, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM)

Panel Discussion
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: Art Building, Room 101, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM)
Michele Zalopany, Heather Waldroup Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, Appalachia State University, and Emily Cornish, Phd student University of Michigan (19th Century Hawaiian Visual Culture)
As I was led to inform myself by my face and curiosity, I am hoping that by putting more images of an older Hawaiian reality out into the world, I may provoke interest in the true history of the Hawaiian people and their land, and thus chip away at the false narrative that overwhelms most peoples’ current perceptions. ‍
– Michele Zalopany
 
Artist Michele Zalopany’s extraordinary works reference photographs from the past: both those from various historical archives and of her own family. The medium of photography has been present in Hawai‘i since the 1840s. Much has been written of photography’s articulations with settler-colonialism, in which the camera’s lens becomes the locus of the colonial gaze. Michele Zalopany’s work speaks to a parallel, under-researched, but profoundly significant history of photography, in which Indigenous subjects actively participated in the production of photographs, using the medium as a way to control their representation on a global stage. Zalopany’s images stand as important acts of visual sovereignty. They not only reclaim, but actively re-code, and even re-activate Indigenous histories and knowledges. As objects that layer time, ’āina, and ’ohana, Zalopany’s images speak to the profound interconnections of Hawai‘i s pasts and futures.
– Heather Waldroup, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Appalachian State University
 
Kanaka ʻŌiwi artist, Michele Zalopany spent her formative years in Detroit and Hawai‘i. Her photo-based work is included in over twenty-five permanent international collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Eli Broad Collection, The USB collection, The Walker Art Center, The Carnegie Institute, and others. She has been in many notable exhibition venues including the Whitney Biennial, Gagosian Gallery, NY, and Esso Gallery, NY. She has been a guest lecturer at the American Academy in Rome, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Middlebury College, and others. She was a Visiting Lecturer of Visual Arts at Harvard University from 2007 to 2008 and in 2009. From 2001 to 2014, she was a Professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Michele Zalopany lives and works in New York City.
The exhibit is curated by Heather Waldroup, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and Debra Drexler, Interim Director of the Galleries and Museum. This exhibition and residency are supported by the Admiral Residency in Contemporary Pacific Art, and the SEED Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Success Grant.  

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The Commons Gallery
Address, Hours, Admission:
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 (UH Mānoa campus)
Tue. – Fri, & Sun. 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Free admission
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