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Alexis Rockman in The Green Room (O‘ahu)

September 28, 2018 By Sara Tekula Leave a Comment

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When:
October 24, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
2018-10-24T19:00:00-10:00
2018-10-24T21:00:00-10:00
Where:
Honolulu Museum of Art
900 S Beretania St
Honolulu, HI 96814
USA
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Alexis Rockman in The Green Room (O‘ahu) @ Honolulu Museum of Art | Honolulu | Hawaii | United States

In this co-presentation with Honolulu Museum of Art, The Merwin Conservancy presents an intimate evening with renowned painter and naturalist Alexis Rockman in The Green Room, an environmental and literary salon series that fosters a reverence for language, nature, and imagination in our community. Inspired by 19th–century landscape painting, science fiction film, and firsthand field study, Rockman’s paintings proffer a vision of the natural world that is equal parts fantasy and empirical fact.

The event begins at 7pm, doors at 6:30pm. Rockman will make a stage presentation of a selection of his visual works, followed by a book signing at a courtyard reception with refreshments and book fair.

About Alexis Rockman: 

Alexis Rockman has exhibited extensively worldwide since 1985. He has been featured in a number of solo museum exhibitions including Dioramas at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1996); Alexis Rockman: A Recent History of the World at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (1999); Manifest Destiny at the Brooklyn Museum (2005; traveling to the Rhode Island School of Design; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Grand Arts, Kansas City); and a mid career survey Alexis Rockman A Fable for Tomorrow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2010; traveling to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus); Alexis Rockman: The Weight of Air at the Rose Art Museum. East End Field Drawings at the Parrish Museum of Art in Water Mill, NY ( 2015). The Great Lakes Cycle, Grand Rapids Art Museum; Chicago Cultural Center; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Flint Institute of Art, MI; The Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2018-20) His work is represented in public and private collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.

From 2009-12, Rockman collaborated with director Ang Lee on the prize-winning film “Life of Pi,” serving as “Inspirational Artist” preparing conceptual drawings to serve as visual reference. He has been the subject of many exhibition catalogues and monographic publications including Alexis Rockman, published by Monacelli Press in 2003. Rockman lives and works in New York City.

For more than two decades, the artist-cum-amateur naturalist has collected organic materials during extended travels to places including Tasmania, Madagascar, and Antarctica and made delicate field drawings of the things that live in each environment from the soil samples collected there, mixed with water and matte acrylic medium.

This evening is generously supported by Halekulani Hotel and Atherton Family Foundation.

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