"Deciphering the Creative Act"

"Deciphering the Creative Act" looks at the process artists use as they make decisions based on their feelings and experiences that result in their creative acts. Meet the artists at the Louis Pohl Gallery, December 6, 2013 6-9 pm Show runs to Dec. 24, 2013.

Pathway: New Paintings and Laser Woodcuts by Satoru Abe

Honolulu Museum of Art

First Hawaiian Bank Building, Honolulu, Hawaii

November 21, 2013 to March 31, 2014

For the past 65 years, Hawai‘i-born Satoru Abe has been creating paintings and sculpture in Hawai‘i and New York. Along with fellow artists Harry Tsuchidana and other members of the Metcalf Chateau, a group of seven Asian-American artists with ties to Honolulu that includes Bumpei Akaji, Edmund Chung, Tetsuo Ochikubo, Jerry Okimoto, James Park, and Tadashi Sato, Abe was instrumental in the establishment of Honolulu’s art scene. Born in 1926 on O‘ahu, he first traveled to New York in 1948 to study art at the Art Students League, later returning to Hawai‘i where he is well known for his public sculptures.

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, December 5, 6-8pm

SPF PROJECTS

729 Auahi Street, Honolulu, HI

Honolulu, HI 96813

Willa Nasatir  Glass Delusion and Elizabeth Sonenberg  No Titles No Territories ­­­

Show runs December 5 - January 5, 2014

HONOLULU, HAWAI’I – SPF Projects is pleased to present two solo exhibitions, Glass Delusion and No Titles No Territories. Featuring the work of New York-based Los Angeles native, Willa Nasatir and Los Angeles-based New York native Elizabeth Sonenberg. Glass Delusion and No Titles No Territories represent Nasatir and Sonenberg’s first solo shows outside of the contiguous United States. 

Glass Delusion takes its title from a mental disorder characterized by a fear of being made of glass and consequently a fear of shattering into pieces at the slightest (mis)touch. Evoking hallucinations and points of simultaneous pleasure, Nasatir's alternative-process color photographs explore the overflowing boundaries of image making and of sensuality.

No Titles No Territories presents an installation composed of movement video loops and a floor print of a found asemic text. Sonenberg investigates forms of unintelligible communication, presenting the relationship between impulsive gesture and compulsive absorption. In fetishizing her own movements, Sonenberg creates a language that bridges object and body.

SPF Projects provides a venue for the production and display of contemporary art and theory in Honolulu. With a focus on building the capacity for critically engaged art and dialogue in the Islands, SPF is dedicated to developing a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational program through the exhibition of local, national, and international artists and thinkers.