January 12 - February 16
Artwork Receiving Day: Wednesday, January 3 / 9am-4pm
Online Registration: December 27 - January 3
Opening Reception: Friday, January 12 / 5-7pm
Juror Walkthrough: Friday, January 12 / 4-5pm
Juror: Debra Drexler, Acting Director of the Galleries and Museum and Professor of Drawing and Painting, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
This prestigious exhibition gives visitors an opportunity to view current work by local artists in all media. The Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture & the Arts recognizes this exhibition each year through its Art in Public Places Program.
With renowned guest jurors offering a different perspective for a unique show each year, this exhibition offers an opportunity to view current work of local and mainland artists in all media. Ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, jewelry, digital media, fiber, wood, mixed media and all other creative explorations are welcome! With no theme, this exhibition challenges artists to submit their best work created within the past two years.
Mahalo to our exhibition sponsors Susan O'Shaughnessy & Bryan Luther, Doug & Madeline Callahan, and Carolyn Schaefer .
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IMPORTANT DATES
Online Registration: December 27 - January 3
Artwork Receiving Day: Wednesday, January 3 / 9am – 4pm
Selection Notification: Thursday, January 4 by 6pm via huinoeau.com
Pick up of non-selected work: Friday, January 5 / 9am – 4pm
Pick up of non-sold, selected work: Saturday, February 17 / 9am – 4pm
Opening Reception: Friday, January 12 / 5-7pm
HOW TO ENTER
1. Make sure you have a current Hui membership. To renew or sign up for a membership please visit huinoeau.com/membership or call 808-572-6560 ext. 22.
2. Complete online registration before Jan. 3.
Online Registration must be completed PRIOR to dropping off artwork on receiving day
Please confirm Hui membership status prior to beginning the online registration process to ensure proper entry fee payment.
3. Print & fill out artwork labels and attach to the back upper right hand corner of artwork.
4. Drop off artwork on Wednesday, Jan. 3rd from 9am-4pm during our drive-through artwork receiving day.
For questions please contact Exhibitions Manager Josephine Bergill-Gentile at josephine@huinoeau.com or 808-572-6560 ext. 23.
About the Juror
Debra Drexler has studios in Brooklyn and Oahu and her work is informed by the unique bicoastal experience. Noteworthy recent exhibitions include Flirt: Helen Frankenthaler and Debra Drexler (2022), which was shown in two separate Manhattan locations, ART SHE SAYS salon and Anne Kendall Richards Gallery (Tussle Magazine); and Abstraction X3 (2021) a three person show exhibition focusing on internationally recognized Hawai’i based painters at Schaefer International Gallery of Maui Arts and Cultural Center. Significant exhibits include: Front Room Gallery (solo 2019, group exhibitions 2018-present), Drawing Center, NY (2014), Exit Art, NY (2010-11), White Box–The Annex (solo, 2005, review New York Arts Magazine), Honolulu Museum, (solo, 2002, numerous reviews and articles), and Maui Arts and Cultural Center, HI (solo, 2003, three person 2021), New York galleries include Van Der Plas Gallery (solo, 2018; solo, 2017; solo; 2015; three person, 2014, Kalm Report video interview), Gallery Gary Giordano (two person, 2017, reviews in Whitehot Magazine and Arte Fuse). The Dorado Project at The Majestic (solo, 2016), HP Garcia Gallery (solo, 2009 and 2010, review Gathering of Tribes), The Curator Gallery, The Border Space Project, Ground Floor Gallery, Denise Bibro, Sideshow Gallery, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, Flux Factory, Artifact Gallery, Creon Gallery and Art Finance Partners. She has had over 30 solo shows and 100 group shows Her work is currently featured in Accession: Recent Additions to the Art in Public Places Collection” at the Hawai’i State Museum. Debra Drexler is a Professor of Drawing and Painting and the Acting Museum and Gallery Director.
A review (Whitehot Magazine, 2017) described her work as clearly referencing the long tradition of American abstraction and the established legacy of the New York School. The reviewer, Jonathan Goodman, however, described the work as a “new non-objectivity” that comes out of the current moment. He states that her work “quite accurately describes the spirit of abstract art today, in which painting is struggling to break free of the constraints of time.”