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MOON Focus of Group Exhibition at Art
Center
ILLUMINATE:
The Moon Show is an exhibition of two-
and three-dimensional art work by Adella Lei Buss, Daven
Hee, May R Izumi, Rochelle Lum, Shigeru Miyamoto, Cade
Roster, Donna Shimazu, Lynn Weiler Liverton, Liz Train,
Lori Y. Uyehara, and Gordon K. Uyehara.
The exhibition
explores their ongoing fascination with the Moon and will
be presented at the Academy Art Center May 9 through 31,
2007.
Admission is free.
To be presented in ILLUMINATE are the artists'
interpretations, observations, and revelations of our
Celestial Sister, the Moon.
Muse to the world's psyche,
the world moves in tandem through its phases.
ILLUMINATE:
The Moon Show contemplates and contributes to tradition,
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adding these artists’ voices to the collective stream. The
artists intend to create an illuminating exhibition of art
that inspires emotional, spiritual, and intellectual
growth.
“Our objective is to develop and mount an intimate
exhibition of Moon themed art that initiates emotional and
thoughtful discussion of human existence. We hope the
exhibition will work on multiple levels of consciousness,”
says exhibition coordinator Cade Roster.
Biographies of the participating artists follow:
Adella Lei Buss:
Adella Lei Buss is a local artist,
born in Honolulu. She graduated from UH Manoa with an MFA.
She teaches drawing at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and art
appreciation at Kapi'olani Community College. Her photo
etchings are in the collections of the Honolulu Academy of
Arts and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and
in private collections. Currently she is learning to
engrave on copper.
Daven Hee:
Daven was born and raised on Oahu. He
received his BFA in ceramics from the University of Hawaii
and his MAVA in ceramics from The Australian National
University in Australia. He has participated in numerous
solo, group, and juried exhibitions both here in Hawaii as
well as abroad. He has work in the collection of the
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Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Hawaii State Foundation on
Culture and the Arts, and in numerous private collections
both here and overseas.
May R. Izumi:
May was born and raised in Hawaii. She
received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing
from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her Masters
of Business Administration is from the University of
Hawaii, Mänoa
(UHM). Currently she works as a publications
editor at UHM's School of Ocean and Earth Science and
Technology. May has studied fine arts at UHM and the
Honolulu Academy of Arts. She has participated in both solo
and group exhibitions in Hawaii and California. Her work
can be found in the collection of the Hawaii State
Foundation for Culture and the Arts as well as private
collections in Hawaii, the mainland U.S., New Zealand, and
Japan.
Rochelle E. Lum:
Rochelle was born and raised in
Hawaii. She received a Bachelor of Art degree from Mills
College in Oakland California where she also did Post
Graduate work in Art Education. She has worked for various
publishing, graphic design, and advertising companies in
California before returning to Hawaii where she currently
teaches adult classes. As a ceramic artist she has
participated in many solo, group and juried exhibitions
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held throughout the U.S.A. Some of these shows were held at
the American Craft in Museum New York, the Charles H.
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Wisconsin, and the DelMano
Gallery in California. Galleries in Hawaii, California and
New Mexico currently represent her. Rochelle’s work can be
found in the collections of The Contemporary Museum
(Hawaii) and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the
Arts.
Shigeru Miyamoto:
Born in California, Shigeru
Miyamoto received his M.A. from San Jose State University
in Ceramics/Sculpture. He taught in California, Australia
and Indonesia before moving to Kauai where he built a
ceramic studio, worked on commissions and produced highfire production work and raku and pit fire sculptures. In
1990, he began teaching ceramics at the University of
Hawaii at Mänoa in the Department of Art. Shigeru has
conducted workshops on wheel throwing, pit firing and
ceramic sculpture for schools and community art centers
around the Islands and on the mainland. He is active in the
Raku Ho‘olaule‘a. He has participated as an invited artist
in ceramic art symposiums in Lithuania and Latvia. Shigeru
has completed three State Foundation on Culture and the
Arts commissions, two in conjunction with the Department of
Education Artists in the School program. His art expresses
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the social, political, and cultural climate of the Pacific
Rim.
Cade Roster:
Cade Roster was born in Honolulu in
1972. He grew up and continues to grow up in Honolulu,
though he spent four years at the Art Institute of Chicago.
He has been in a few Honolulu art shows of note, and his
work has traveled here and there. His work can be found in
collections of the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Hawaii
State Art Museum. While he has been drawing for 30 some odd
years, he considers a sense of play his strongest asset.
Medium doesn’t come into mind as much as how enjoyable the
project might be. Thus, most of his body of work is
somewhat hard to categorize, being that a lot of it is
experimental in nature, and process.
Donna E. Shimazu:
Donna was born and raised in
Hawaii. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and
Secondary Art Education Professional diplomas from the
University of Hawaii at Mänoa. Her Masters of Business
Administration diploma is from the J. L. Kellogg School at
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. She worked for large
advertising agencies on national packaged goods accounts
before switching careers to custom jewelry designing and
goldsmithing. Currently, she works for Maui Divers as a
designer, model maker and research & development specialist
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and she teaches adult jewelry classes at the Honolulu
Academy of Art Education Center. She also has the
distinction of being the first woman to be certified as a
master bench jeweler by Jewelers of America.
Liz Train: Liz grew up on Kauai, the daughter of two
artists who operated a gallery called the Spouting Horn
Studio.
She
received
BFA
and
MFA
degrees
from
the
University of Hawaii with a major in fiber. Her work has
been exhibited extensively throughout the state and is in
the collections of the State Foundation on Culture and Arts
and
the
Contemporary
Museum.
Liz
has
taught
in
many
environments including the University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Academy of Arts, Temari, Iolani School, Waialae Elementary
and Artists in the Schools programs for many elementary
schools.
Lynn Weiler Liverton: Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Lynn
Weiler Liverton has a BARCH, 1988 from the University of
Arizona, Tucson and a MFA, 1996, from the University of
Hawaii, Mänoa. She received commissions to create the 25th
Infantry Division Association Memorial, Schofield Barracks,
2006, Jack Lord Memorial, Honolulu, 2004, a bronze
installation for King David Kawananakoa Middle School,
Honolulu, 2002, and Stan Sheriff Memorial, Honolulu, 1998.
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Lori Y. Uyehara: Lori was born and raised in Hawaii.
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a
Professional Diploma in Secondary Art Education from the
University of Hawaii at Mänoa. She has participated in
solo, group, and juried exhibitions in the USA and abroad.
Her work in mixed media fiber, ceramics, and wood is
represented in the collections of the Hawaii State
Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Honolulu Academy of
Arts, and in private collections in the United States and
New Zealand.
Gordon K. Uyehara:
Gordon was born and raised in
Hawaii. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the
University of Hawaii at Mänoa. He has participated in
juried exhibitions in the USA and abroad. Although his work
is primarily wearable art of silver clay and Sterling, he
also produces drawings.
For more information, call the Academy at (808) 5328700, or visit the exhibition’s special web site at
http://www.moonshow.org.
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