2009 Hilo International Invitati

Andrew Blanchard White Flight Past Urban Limits

by Wayne Miyamoto

It is an intriguing irony that an exhibition featuring the oeuvre of photography cannot be adequately conveyed through photographic reproduction. The immediacy of scale is a notable absence. The intimate and subtle relationships of materials, colors, and the textures and surfaces of the work in the exhibition is not adequately conveyed in this printed format. The exhibition is a rich viewing experience that is best perceived through the tangible physical reality of the work. The artists featured in the 2009 Hilo International Invitational Works on Paper Exhibition engage viewers with a perceptual “sleight of hand” providing visual experiences under the canopy of the photographic image. The artists are from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Turkey, and New Zealand.

Andrew Blanchard, Spartanburg, South Carolina, received his graduate degree in printmaking from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi after completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Blanchard work from the Southern Gothic Suite is an exploration of social issues revealing the cultural character of the American South. The character of places on the periphery of Southern towns and cities show life on the fringes of the social mainstream.

Byron Brauchli, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, specializes in Mexican-American visual studies and alternate photographic processes. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and has taught at such institutions as the University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, among others. Brauchli is a fine arts researcher at the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Veracruz.

Bryon Brauchli Madonna and Stairs

A U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture grant supported a series of work that was included in Cultural Refractions: Border Life in No Man´s Land depicting life on the Mexican-U.S. border. In 1999-2000 he was a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow and collaborated with the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Veracruz on the project Landscape and Modernity. His work has been presented in more than 90 solo and group international exhibitions and is included in many public collections and publications. On The Line, a book of photography with Fernando Meza, is his most recent publication.

Robert Brown, Atlanta, Georgia, is Professor of Printmaking at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Brown received his M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. His undergraduate studies were at Colorado State University. Brown also pursued post-baccalaureate study at the University of Washington. He is the lead printer at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts, North Carolina and was master printer at Flatbed Press in Austin during 1999-2002. Brown states that he seeks abandoned landscapes that are imbued with cultural tension. And, by revealing ruined or decaying artifacts and documenting new forms built upon historical remnants, he discovers projections of the future. His work in the exhibition display images created from the Palace Alhambra in Spain, Fort de Buoux in the south of France and other sites around Provence.

Robert Brown Car Crash

Sam Coronado lives in Austin, Texas and has lectured on Chicano art in numerous museums, art schools, and universities throughout the United States. He is Professor of Art at Austin Community College. Coronado was a co-founder of Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, the state's official Mexican and Mexican-American art museum. He is founder and director of the Serie Project, a non-profit organization with a mission to create and promote serigraph prints by Latino and other artists.

Coronado's work is serigraphy or silkscreen print using layers of colors, shapes, and textures. The work reflects upon the poignancy of America at war (World War II) and explores the distinguished contributions of Latinos during the war.

Sam Coronado WWII Series-Angel Zavala

Pamela DeLaura Sleeping

Pamela DeLaura is Associate Professor of Art at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia.DeLaura creates mixed media prints and drawings using a wide range of media.

DeLaura displays cyanotypes, an alternative photographic process. For DeLaura, cyanotype is a hands-on process providing her with a broad range of choices for works on paper. DeLaura notes that her work merges hand-drawn and photographic imagery that symbolize and emphasize opposing forces, real or imaginary, visible or not visible; and where the intersection of forces can evoke time or timelessness.

Davida Kidd An Intellectual Property

Davida Kidd from Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, teaches at the University College of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. Kidd has presented her work in numerous exhibitionsthroughout the world and she has received significant recognition and awards through her work in Canada, Poland, the United States, Korea, Macedonia, Germany, Norway, and Japan.

Kidd states, "The content of my artistic practice, for years, has addressed themes of domination: the psyche by the dream or ideal, the conscience by guilt, the personality by passion. In my work I create personality ‘types’ which subtly explore the fragility and ferocity of the contemporary human condition."

David King from Kent, Ohio, completed his graduate studies at Kent State University in 2007. King has presented his work throughout Ohio and in California, Colorado, Kansas, West Virginia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York. King uses images from the highways and roads he frequents. The changing light in the surrounding landscape and light and color on reflective metal surfaces are the genesis for images. Working through indirect processes, King "squeegees" layers of wet paint across textured or built-up surfaces on mylar platforms to create different color combinations and a variety of secondary shapes.

David King Hilo Tanker

Josh Pfeiffer 3

Josh Pfeiffer, Cincinnati, Ohio, is Adjunct Professor of Photography a the Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. Pfeiffer was born and raised in Cincinnati and received his graduate degree in art from the University of Cincinnati. He employs a broad spectrum of photographic processes ranging from camera obscura to the latest digital SLRs. Pfeiffer states that “photography performs many cultural roles in cataloging and documenting events, places, people, or objects. The photographic image may become a surrogate for the subject matter that it catalogues. Photography can evoke ideas and can communicate those ideas to different people in different places.”

Jeffrey Baykal Rollins, Istanbul, Turkey, was born in Santa Barbara, California. Rollins completed a BFA in painting and photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, and received an MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Rollins teaches at Bosphorus University and at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.

Rollins' work in the exhibition are diptychs of drawing-based photograms and poems. The work was inspired by a seven-year-old boy's vision of a seven-minute-long solar eclipse. The complete series include images and the poems tracing the event through seven stages or levels. His photograms are photographs made without a camera by placing objects directly onto photographic paper and exposing it to light.

Jeffrey Baykal Rollins Ash Sunday

Noah Saterstrom lives in Tucson, Arizona. He was raised in Mississippi and educated at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Saterstrom works as a visual artist and independent curator. His paintings, drawings, and print installations have been shown nationally and internationally, most recently at the Carol Robinson Gallery in New Orleans and the Lodging House Mission homeless shelter in Glasgow, Scotland. Saterstrom is the founder and curator of the on-line curatorial quarterly, Trickhouse.

Saterstrom is interested in the "non-artistic" photograph, the common snapshot, and the manner in which these documents relate (or how they do not relate) to memory. As he notes, the translation from photograph to painting (or drawing, or screenprint), different from a direct transcription, attracting other influences along the way, perhaps discovery, can change the visual signal and charges it with as sense of humanity. Saterstrom says, “The paradox of translation can kindle fascination.”

Noah Saterstrom 08-05

Cathryn Shine, Christchurch, New Zealand, Aotearoa, is Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts and is the Coordinator of Studios for Photography and Printmaking in The School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has presented her work throughout New Zealand and Australia, the United States and Europe. Professor Shine is also the Director of the Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition Series, a biennial exhibition, at the SoFA Gallery, University of Canterbury.

Photographic information is an essential aspect of Shine's art making. For Shine, photography is an extension of drawing. In her work, she often combines photography and printmaking. Photo-lithography, photo-intaglio or photographs are united with drawings made on lithography stones. Her work integrates the visual clarity of photographic information with the physical character of printmaking; using these different qualities to explore the process of making and the visual language to establish a unique image.

Cathryn Shine Villa D’Este

Barbara Yoshida lives and works in New York City. Yoshida has presented her work in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions throughout the world. Most recently, she has presented solo exhibitions of her work in Tokyo, Japan; Kaunas, Lithuania; and Budapest, Hungary; and in group exhibitions in New York, Miami, India, Germany, and Scotland.

Regarding her work, Yoshida states, "Photographing at night, with the stones against the night sky, emphasizes their shapes, as well as the relationship between ‘figure and ground,’ between the focal object and its surroundings. The ‘star trails’ add another element; that of time. They are a visual record of how much the earth has moved during the exposure, which can be a few minutes or as long as an hour. The gravure process---the way the paper is pressed into the bitten plate---complements the texture of the stones."

Barbara Yoshida Cromlech

The exhibition is presented by the Art Department and the Student Activities Council at the Campus Center Gallery of the University of Hawai’i at Hilo during October, 2009 to April, 2010.

For information regarding the exhibition please contact
Professor Michael Marshall at mdmarsha@hawaii.edu or 959-3266.