MFA Thesis Defense: Kalani Largusa
February 5, 1:00pm - 3:00pmMānoa Campus, Art Building, The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai芒鈧渋 at M脛聛noa
2016 MFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS
January 17 芒鈧 February 12, 2016
The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai芒鈧渋 at M脛聛noa
The graduate program at the Department of Art + Art History, University of Hawai芒鈧渋 at M脛聛noa is a comprehensive and diverse center for the graduate study of the visual arts and Asian and Pacific art history. The exciting thesis exhibitions are part of a demanding course of study, production, and review. MFA candidates concurrently present new and engaging works that demonstrate each artist芒鈧劉s caliber of ideas, skills, awareness of the global context within which art is created and circulated, and critically engaged artistic practice. The artists, the titles of their exhibitions, and their areas of specialization are:
Jake Boggs, Re/Collecting, (ceramics)
Thesis defense: Friday, January 22, 2016 1:30 p.m.
Kalani Largusa, I too am here, (painting)
Thesis defense: Friday, February 5, 2016 1:00 p.m.
Kamran Samimi, Passage, (print media and sculpture)
Thesis defense: Friday, February 12, 2016 12:00 p.m.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Kalani Largusa presents I too am here, a selection of paintings The passage of time in Nicolas Poussin芒鈧劉s, Et in Arcadia Ego is poetically revealed through the strong shadow on the tomb cast by the kneeling figure as he scrutinizes an inscription; 芒鈧揑 too am in Arcadia芒鈧 (I live in or had once lived in paradise).
Kalani Largusa芒鈧劉s contemporary abstract paintings in the exhibition I too am here explore a sense of time through the use of an evolved 芒鈧揦芒鈧 and pyramid pattern. The paintings utilize 芒鈧揷old moves芒鈧 which suggest spontaneity despite a calculated and deliberately slow execution and strike a balance between pattern and intuition as a record of history.
Largusa states, 芒鈧揑 am present mark by mark, but as the painting comes to a close my presence dissolves and the work remains as evidence of the transience of human life.芒鈧
Ticket Information
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 - 4:00; Sunday 12:00 - 4:00. Closed Saturdays. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated. Parking fees may apply.
Event Sponsor
Art + Art History, Mānoa Campus
More Information
Sharon Tasaka, 956-8364, gallery@hawaii.edu,
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9:30am |
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11:00am |
Pacific Biosciences Research Center-Training Seminar Mānoa Campus, Pacific Ocean Science and Technology (POST) 601
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Aloha Friday Lunch with SPAM! Mānoa Campus, Queen Lili'uokalani Center for Student Services, Room 208
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MFA Thesis Defense: Kalani Largusa Mānoa Campus, Art Building, The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai芒鈧渋 at M脛聛noa
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