MINORU OHIRA: MEMORY & NATURE and LANCE GERBER: LINES OF SIGHT (Nāpali Coast)
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When:
January 19, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
2018-01-19T18:00:00-08:00
2018-01-19T21:00:00-08:00
Where:
Palos Verdes Art Center
5504 Crestridge Rd
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
USA
5504 Crestridge Rd
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
(310) 541-2479
MINORU OHIRA: MEMORY & NATURE
and
LANCE GERBER: LINES OF SIGHT (Nāpali Coast)
JANUARY 19 – MARCH 4, 2018
Opening Reception for both exhibitions
Friday, Jan. 19, 6-9pm
Palos Verdes Art Center is pleased to announce Memory & Nature, recent sculpture by Minoru Ohira. Composed of wood, granite, graphite, and resin, his forms are abstracted from the human body as well as vegetal shapes, filtered by the traces of memory in a process of meditative carving. Trained in the classical western art tradition with a studio practice in marble sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts, Ohira furthered his studies with post-graduate work at La Esmeralda, Mexico National Institute of Art in Mexico City, before moving to Los Angeles where he has developed a unique method of constructing large wood sculpture utilizing found objects, including downed branches and construction waste.
Ohira has exhibited extensively at galleries and museums in the US, Mexico and Japan and is in the collections of The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Thailand (Bangkok) and the National Museum of Art in Mexico City.
In 2013 Ohira was the recipient of the prestigious 26th Denchu Hirakushi Award for the art of wood carving. In 2009 he was awarded the 36th Teijiro Nakagawa Award, the first artist residing outside Japan to be honored with the award.
More images at at memoryandnature.com
Palos Verdes Art Center is pleased to announce Lines of Sight (Nāpali Coast), new work by architecture and landscape photographer Lance Gerber. The exhibition juxtaposes studies of a noted Hawaiian Modern house designed by internationally acclaimed architect Gianni Francione, and the tropical forest covering the coastline where it is sited on the Nāpali Coast on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Revealing contrasts of form and pattern, Lines of Sight (Nāpali Coast) speaks to environmental shift, its challenges and blockades, as well as the hopes and efforts to effect change. This body of work is intended to draw the observer in, inspiring closer inspection, discovery, reflection, and wonder.
For this and the past three years, PVAC has featured an architecturally significant house as the prize in its annual fundraiser, the Palos Verdes Dream House Raffle. Lance Gerber is the official photographer of the event.
More exhibition images at linesofsightnapali.com
Palos Verdes Dream House Raffle images by Lance Gerber and info at CADreamRaffle.com
Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education, a nonprofit community visual arts school and gallery, inspires individuals to create, appreciate and celebrate art. Since it was founded in 1931, PVAC’s exhibition, education and outreach programs have made the visual arts available, accessible and affordable.