I spent my Saturday afternoon floating along in another museum, the Hawaii State Art Museum (HiSAM). Located downtown pretty much right across St. Andrew's Cathedral, the museum is actually housed in the original site of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. I attended summer school for about six years at St. Andrew's and I've never known about this museum. The building itself is amazing. It's so sad though with Hawaii's government in a financial mess that there is hardly any upkeep for the building. In comparison to the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the HiSAM is quite tiny. But no one minds when you see what they have displayed.
Renamed the No. 1 Capitol District Building, the scrollwork and other architectural details were modeled after the Davanzatti Palace in Florence, Italy.
Yoko Haar
Erosion #2, 2000 Ceramic relief
Satoru Abe
Copper Cutout Series, 1985-1992 Copper
Two of my favorites.
Fred Roster
The Eye of the Storm, 1994 Stone, wood, and cast bronze
It's all in the detail.
Satoru Abe
East and West, 1971 Welded copper and bronze
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Yoko is a marvelous artist and conceptualist. This body of work is pleasing to the senses as far as form and beauty and yet extremely powerful.
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