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The Contemporary Museum Honolulu

20 GOING ON 21: Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Looking to the Future

An Exhibition of Hawaii Artists

March 19-June 21, 2009

20 Going on 21 is one of a number of special programs in 2009 celebrating TCM's 20th anniversary. TCM invited past TCM Biennial invited artists (52 from eight Biennials) to each nominate up to five contemporary Hawai'i artists who they feel are accomplished or emerging, to be considered for the exhibition (fellow Biennial artists were not eligible to be nominated).

The exhibition has also been supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and with in-kind support by Sony Hawaii and the Waikiki Parc Hotel.

A catalogue will be published by TCM in conjunction with the exhibition and will be available for purchase in the TCM Museum Shop.

Honolulu Academy of Arts May 14-August 16

Artists of Hawaii: The 64

By Lesa Griffith

"Artists of Hawai‘i 2009 juror Laura Hoptman selected 86 works by 64 artists from four islands."

Hawaiian Style magazine, April 2008

By Douglas King

"Marine currents drive life around the world. Whales migrate to the waters off the Hawaiian Islands following the rich sea broth that feeds them, just as all sea creatures are directed by the push and pull of the vast ocean.

Photographer Bruna Stude has also felt the pull of the ocean..."

Millard Sheets Art Canter, Pomona, California, September 7- 30 ,2007

Contemporary Landscapes

Curator : Tal Yizrael

"The works in this exhibition retain the element of fascination with the landscape, but this initial form of attraction is challenged and calls for a penetrating reading of each. The works playfully shift between mindscapes and landscapes..."

HONOLU ADVERTISER , November 21, 2007 (view article)

Through the lens of Bruna Stude

By Lesa Griffith

"Twenty years ago, Bruna Stude left her native Croatia for a life crewing on yachts. A law school graduate and a newspaper reporter, in a world where Croatian wasn't the first language, she turned to photography to express herself.

y surfing first."

BENEATH Sulkin / Secant Gallery - Show Essay April 2006

by Jeff Sulkin

"Art-making begins with choices; what the artist chooses to see, What the artist chooses to see and then to communicate to us. The diverse mediums and tools of art are secondary; whether a brush, a pen, a camera. First must come the will and commitment to see; to look beyond the obvious, to look through the surface, to look beneath."

P r e s s R e l e a s e s

PRESS RELEASE, September 15, 2007

IN-SIGHT

Kaua‘i, Hawaii, November 15, 2007 – Kaua‘i photographer Bruna Stude’s IN-SIGHT is a little black art book full of gorgeous ocean imagery, and it comes to bookstores at the end of November.

The author, who spent most of her life working and living at sea, summarizes the ocean world with just a few paragraphs in her photography book, allowing the reader to follow her story through the imagery via intriguing image titles and creative groupings. In sum, the book truly tells a story about Stude’s journey and the environs she loves.

“When I photograph in the ocean, I look to find and capture the magnificence of that which is common and universal to it,” Stude explains. “By illuminating theextraordinary, I try to create awareness and inspire reverence.”

Stude’s recent art showings include “Contemporary Landscapes” at the Millard Sheets Center of the Arts in Pomona, California, “Art Kaua‘i 2007” by the Kaua‘i Society of Artists in Lihue, and Artists of Hawaii 2007 at the Honolulu Academy of Art in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is currently working on her upcoming solo exhibition at The Kaua‘i Museum for summer 2008.

Acclaim for the artist:
“Bruna Stude invites us to a sublime journey under water, which is her everyday world – a place where one dimension is lost and another one is gained. She creates light-drawings using her camera, almost on location photograms. The water, the light, and the marine inhabitants and visitors are her brushes and palette. The contour lines created by these elements function as membranes, which allow our gaze to shift among the elements in her photographs.”

– Tal Yizrael, Photography Coordinator, Millard Sheets Center For The Arts, Pomona, California

“Bruna chooses creatures who have no voice, who are often misunderstood and forgotten because they are merely beautiful but silent. Bruna speaks for the creatures who can’t, and by listening to her and seeing them as she sees them, I’m humbled by the capacity we humans have to think more meaningful thoughts, create a better existence for us to live and build a life, and respect this world and all who share it.”

– L.J.C. Shimoda, artist and gallery director of The Kaua‘i Museum

Publisher information:

IN-SIGHT is distributed by Booklines Hawaii, a division of The Islander Group. For

more information, see www.booklineshawaii.com or call 1-877-828-4852.

The 108-page book is printed in debossed soft cover. The pages are hand-sewn, with a debossed belly band made from natural craft paper. A hard-cover, limited edition of the book, numbered and signed, is available at www.brunastude.com.

Author contact information:

Bruna Stude

808-652-0712

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