MFA Thesis Defense: Kalani Largusa

February 5, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Art Building, The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

2016 MFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS

January 17 – February 12, 2016

The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

The graduate program at the Department of Art + Art History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is a comprehensive and diverse center for the graduate study of the visual arts and Asian and Pacific art history. The exciting thesis exhibitions are part of a demanding course of study, production, and review. MFA candidates concurrently present new and engaging works that demonstrate each artist’s caliber of ideas, skills, awareness of the global context within which art is created and circulated, and critically engaged artistic practice. The artists, the titles of their exhibitions, and their areas of specialization are:

Jake Boggs, Re/Collecting, (ceramics)

Thesis defense: Friday, January 22, 2016 1:30 p.m.

Kalani Largusa, I too am here, (painting)

Thesis defense: Friday, February 5, 2016 1:00 p.m.

Kamran Samimi, Passage, (print media and sculpture)

Thesis defense: Friday, February 12, 2016 12:00 p.m.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Kalani Largusa presents I too am here, a selection of paintings The passage of time in Nicolas Poussin’s, Et in Arcadia Ego is poetically revealed through the strong shadow on the tomb cast by the kneeling figure as he scrutinizes an inscription; “I too am in Arcadia” (I live in or had once lived in paradise).

Kalani Largusa’s contemporary abstract paintings in the exhibition I too am here explore a sense of time through the use of an evolved “X” and pyramid pattern. The paintings utilize “cold moves” which suggest spontaneity despite a calculated and deliberately slow execution and strike a balance between pattern and intuition as a record of history.

Largusa states, “I am present mark by mark, but as the painting comes to a close my presence dissolves and the work remains as evidence of the transience of human life.”


Ticket Information
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 - 4:00; Sunday 12:00 - 4:00. Closed Saturdays. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated. Parking fees may apply.

Event Sponsor
Art + Art History, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Sharon Tasaka, 956-8364, gallery@hawaii.edu,

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