The Kahilu Theatre Gallery is privileged
to display the works of rising
stars as well as established Big Island artists.
This season, the gallery will host more than a dozen artists whose work
will please the eye and awaken the imagination.
The Gallery is open Monday - Friday 9am - 3pm. Concert ticket holders are invited
to visit the gallery prior
to the performance and take a few
minutes to explore the pieces of sheer beauty as well as those that offer something
beyond the familiar.
Kawika Duncan Feb 25-Mar 3
Feeling
a deep love for creating from a young age, the artist began painting in earnest
within the last few years. Born and raised in the islands, parallel lives were
spent as a ship Captain and vagabond hitchhiker crossing oceans and continents,
before settling back on Hawaii and calling it home again.
Along the way, influences nurtured a flowing style punctuated by bold color and symbolism. A landscape of dreams and nightmares, his work celebrates beauty and hidden meaning, using acrylic and mixed media to roam outside of the lines.
Believing the observer's role in art is paramount, names of works are withheld. Instead, paintings are numbered, to allow the viewer freedom to fully interpret images as related to their own experiences.
KAHILU THEATRE GALLERY TO SHOWCASE HAMAKUA ARTISANS GUILD
Ten members of
the Hamakua Artisans Guild have gathered a selection of fine arts and crafts,
to be exhibited at the prestigious Kahilu Theatre Gallery during the week
of February 18th through the 22nd.
Included in the exhibition are glowing and colorful works in glass, fiber, and paper; watercolor paintings on silk and paper, and a variety of mixed media, including pastels and pencil. Artists represented in the exhibit are Janice Gail, Hugh Jenkins, Tatiana Leaf, Gayle Marquess, Clytie Mead, Marcie Miller, Stephanie Ross, Wilsa Saue, Karen Thrasher, and Jay West.
For more information, you may contact Karen Thrasher at 895-5011, 885-6885, or call the Theatre Office at 885-6017.
Clemson Lam - Feb 1-14
Clemson Lam, is an architect specializing in custom residential design in
Waimea and surrounding communities. While in architecture school at the University
of Hawaii, Lam became interested in watercolor painting which he has continued
on the Big Island, painting on location and traveling, carrying his palette
wherever he goes. Lam has painted in Sicily, Fiji , Mexico, China and most
recently in India.
When he is not designing homes or painting, Clem enjoys surfing, playing guitar, bicycling and hiking. He is active in the community as chairman of the Waimea Trails and Greenways.
6th annual Black And White Photography Competition
Submission deadline: October 17, 2008, 3PM. Exhibit: December 6, 2008 - January 29, 2009. Photographs first printed or produced between October 20, 2007 and October 17, 2008 by Hawai‘i residents. Click here for entry forms. Check out the winners of this year's competition!
Keiki Art at the Gallery - Exhibit April 5 - April 25, 2008
Ironwood Custom Framing and Design, LLC, will again sponsor the Fourth Annual Keiki Art Show. Last year 96 young artists proudly displayed their work in the gallery.
All flat mediums welcome (pencil, watercolor,
collage, oil, etc.) Artists must be between the ages
of 5-10 years old as of 1/1/08.
Click
here for entry form.
Submission deadline: 4pm January 28, 2008.
'Impressions' - William Duvall - Sept. 4th - Sept 12th
Solo
exhibition of paintings made with leftover commercial paint on found wood.
The Abstract Impressionist works are called eco-abstract or earth paintings
by the Artist. The paintings are created using excess waste of commercial
painting companies on the Island. Many of the paintings were created outdoors
and are the result of Waimea's rapidly changing weather patterns in wet
paint. The show opens on Sept. 4 and doors will be open Mon-Fri. from 9
until 3. Duvall has made his residence in Waimea for over a year. Although
he is primarily a Digital Artist, Duvall's paintings and shipping palette
sculptures are in private collections across the United States, England
and Canada. The paintings for 'Impressions' were partially inspired by
the County governments asking for creative solutions to projected landfill
overflow. There are many viable solutions to the Big Island's landfill
crisis and Impressions looks to raise awareness to situation. The Reduce/re-use/recycled
genre of contemporary Art is rapidly gaining popularity across the world
and Hawaii is in a unique situation to become a cultural epicenter of the
movement.
Oct.6 - Oct. 31 - Rick Decker & Pablo McLoud (Photography)
Pablo
McLoud - Wow! Ive never seen a sunset like that before! Pablo
McLoud's unique slant on ordinary subjects elicits responses like this
all across Hawai'i and the Mainland. Pablo's photographs capture rare
and majestic moments throughout the Big Island and especially on the
summit of Mauna Kea at 14,000 feet above sea level.
Over
the past five years, Pablo has witnessed the many moods and tones of the
mountain, which are reflected in his images. While he is inspired by the
works of Ansel Adams and Franz Klein, Pablo's early influence comes from
his uncle Luis Martinez Pedro, an abstract artist from Cuba, whose paintings
hung on the walls of young Pablo's home. Without the use of any digital
manipulation, Pablo's work delivers the pure and vivid moment-in-time in
a wondrous visual experience. He has received awards in the annual Black
and White Photo Competition at Kahilu Theatre, and is honored to present
this collection in his first exhibit. Pablo is a 12-year resident of the
Big Island with his beautiful wife, Shekinah.
Rick
Decker took up photography as a hobby over thirty years ago, where
it quickly turned into his passion. This upcoming show will feature a
variety of his landscape shots hailing from the American West and Hawai'i,
both above and below sea level. In a recent interview, Rick commented,
"My preference is to record the earth without people and without any
man-made objects. I have taken well over 40,000 pictures in the last
20 years yet I have vivid recollections of the process of creating my
favorites - racing across the sand dunes to beat the sun; timing a wave;
waiting for the best moment in a sunrise; or trying to get into the right
position to shoot an underwater scene. I am able to relive these moments
each time I see the image." You too will feel the excitement and beauty
that nature inspires through Rick's photographs.
His images have appeared in Scuba Diving, Scuba Times, Tropical Collector, American
Landscapes and other publications, and he has won numerous photography contests.
Rick is the founder and current president of the Kona Camera Club and past president
of the Kona Underwater Photographic Society. He currently is photographing with
a 3 megapixel Sigma digital SLR. Many of his images may be seen at http://www.pbase.com/rickdecker and
at http://www.lightreflection.com.
Rick may be contacted via email at rickdecker@hawaii.rr.com.
Additional Events at the Kahilu Theatre Gallery
Sept.17 - Oct.2 - Disposable Nation
Nov.6 - Nov.30 - Kathy Long and Kristy Krantz
Jan.4 - Jan.17 - Canada- France-Hawaii Telescope