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Inner
Scapes
September 16,
2004 - February 27, 2005
Inner Scapes
featured abstract paintings and sculptures
selected from the diverse holdings of the
Art in Public Places Collection.
Abstraction transformed the artistic
expression of the 20th century. During and
after World War II, European artists such
as Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Piet
Mondrian, and Hans Hofmann relocated to
the United States, settling in New York
City. These modern artists influenced
American painters and sculptors to depart
from representational or realistic
traditions to discover new means of
expression.
With a new vision, in the 1940s and 1950s
American artists such as Jackson Pollock,
William De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert
Motherwell, and Helen Frankenthaler
explored a freer and more personal way of
seeing in the collective movement that
became known as Abstract Expressionism.
Hawai‘i artists were influenced by these
American and European trends. In fact,
many Hawai‘i based artists such as Isami
Doi, Tetsuo Ochikubo, Tadashi Sato, Harry
Tsuchidana, and Reuben Tam spent time in
New York City from the 1930s through the
1960s. These local artists later returned
home having been deeply influenced with
the language of abstraction. Inner Scapes
traced these influences and trends from a
regional perspective, bringing Hawai‘i
abstract traditions up to the present.
From left to right: Works shown here by
Alison Manaut, Sueko Kimura, Brian Isobe,
Bumpei Akaji, Allyn Bromley, Rick Mills
From left to right: Works shown here by
Frank Sheriff, Tadashi Sato, Harry
Tsuchidana
From left to right: Works shown here by
Timothy P. Ojile, Frank Sheriff, Lee
Chesney, Byron Goto, John Koga
From left to right: Works shown here by
Reuben Tam, Michael Tom, Russell Davidson,
Aiko Kameya, Roselle Davenport
Gallery
photographs by Paul Kodama
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