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.