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For information on past exhibitions, select and click on exhibition title listed in the "Past Exhibitions" menu on the left.

" Flora & Fauna" by Kathleen C. Grennan

Art Exhibit at The Contemporary Museum Cafe Gallery

The Contemporary Museum (www.tcmhi.org) Café Gallery exhibits "Flora & Fauna" by Kathleen C. Grennan. The exhibition begins March 23 and runs through May 2, 2010.

Kathleen Grennan holds an MFA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 2006 she co- founded Mosquito Farm Studios on the Windward side of Oahu where she works with a variety of mediums, including bronze, glass and natural materials in both 2-D and 3-D. This exhibition features new paintings and wood burnings which reflect a range of influences, from Albrecht Durer etchings and botanical illustrations to fine line tattoo work.

“Flora & Fauna”

Paintings and wood burnings by Kathleen C. Grennan

The Contemporary Museum Café Gallery

March 23 – May 2, 2010

2411 Makiki Heights Drive

Café Gallery hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm

My Revolution Begins... by Reem Bassous

January 26 and runs through March 7, 2010.
Tuesday-Sunday from 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Reception on:
Saturday, January 30, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

The paintings are from Bassous' new series, a commentary on her experience in Beirut during the civil war that spanned 15 years. Through the use of collage, images of devastated war zones are juxtaposed onto a surface that floats in pools of paint. Formal elements of light, color and texture fight for hegemony as they react and interact with loaded imagery. The construction of these paintings often leads to the destruction of the surface through soldering, burning, or sanding. In this destruction, the work comes closer to its objective of making visible an accurate desolate warscape.

Click here to visit her website.

Dieter Runge Show - Check out Dieter Runge's exhibition Rock N Roll Revelation featuring works on paper and leather jackets were on view until January 26th, 2010

Maya Lea Portner
+/- Selected Works with Paper

November 17 - December 13, 2009
The Café Contemporary Gallery
Free

This selection of two-dimensional work includes drawings, paper-cuts, and sewn constructions. Through the use of patterns, Portner investigates the tension between the superficiality of decoration and the meanings of underlying motifs. This push-and-pull within layers of meaning is echoed in the artist's approach to the paper as both surface to work on and structure to work with. The seemingly "decorative" patterns' symbolic potentials are revealed through the materiality of the resulting artwork. Pattern implies order; order begets structure, purpose, meaning, reason and idea.

Click here to visit Maya Lea Portner's website.


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