March 22 - May 17
Opening Reception: Friday, March 22 / 5-7pm
Artist Walkthrough with Sachelle Dae: Thursday, April 11 / 5pm
Artist Walkthrough with Zenobia Lakdawalla: Thursday, April 18 / 5pm
Maui-based artists Sachelle Dae and Zenobia Lakdawalla will present two concurrent solo exhibits in the Hui's adjoining gallery spaces as part of the 2024 Solo Artist Exhibition. Hui No‘eau’s Solo Artist Exhibition series provides two artists with the unique opportunity to be involved in all facets of exhibition planning and installation. It challenges artists to envision and produce an innovative and cohesive body of work to be shown in a professional gallery setting. Through an open call to artists across the state, Dae and Lakdawalla were selected as the two artists to present their solo shows in this upcoming exhibition.
Sachelle Dae will present That which nourishes us. Recognizing the nourishment that is contained in all things calls for a life of reciprocity with the land and each other. Fruits from aunty, bodyboarding in the ocean after school, ‘ulu hanging on a tree, friends and family coming together to celebrate a shared love. My artwork is a visual connection to the unique moments, people, organisms and places of our island home, Maui. In the awareness of all that nourishes us, we find a new vision to counterbalance our modern day “never enough.”
Zenobia Lakdawalla will introduce “The Temperature of Color”—an exhibition of new work that defines the potential of line through multi-disciplinary practices in graphic design, print-making, and three-dimensional materials. It is an exploration in the luminescence and chromaticity of color and the visual perception of color and light.
About Sachelle Dae
Before we learn to name, we experience. The sensory and visual is felt without the filter and objectification of language. My oil paintings aim to deconstruct representation as it always has been. To show time, space, form and color as a continuous stream of life continuously moving and not concrete.
Sachelle Dae lives and works in Hawai'i where she grew up. She was classically trained in humanist realism oil painting at Studio Incamminati. Her studies include a strong repertoire of painting the human figure, portraiture and still life. Before pursuing oil painting she worked mostly in silkscreen and pen and ink drawings. She has also studied at the University of Hawai'i Maui College, Atelier Maui, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She currently exhibits her work nationally and teaches art classes.
About Zenobia Lakdawalla
I am a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Maui, Hawaii. I grew up in Mumbai, India, and moved to Boston to study design at the Massachusetts College of Art, graduating with a MFA. I have been living and working in Hawaii for the past 20 years.
I work across many disciplines such as printmaking, drawing, ceramics and 3-D forms, often working simultaneously on them so that one influences the other. I believe that each material has its own innate qualities which I explore by testing its limits. I use lines and geometry in my work to explore color, light and form. I sometimes use type and language to communicate, manipulating it to give it added meaning.
Working as a graphic designer brings a graphic sensibility to the art as I pare down elements to their simplest form and distill ideas to communicate them easily. I believe that each discipline informs the other.