PAST EVENTS
Amber Aguirre & George Woollard
Sooncheon Cultural Center, Sooncheon S. Korea
Drawing in Color
with George Woollard
Select Paintings by the Monday Morning Studio Group: Arlene Woo, Carmen Von Sydow, Cathryn Lau, Craig Kagawa, Frances Hill, Katherine Finch, Light Ruth, Mary Dikon, Patricia Whittingslow, Sara Wakayama, Sharon Billingsley, and George Woollard (Artist & Teacher).
Cactus Bistro in Kailua
Contact Zone 2018
It is a theme based exhibition that asks that artists explore the many interpretations of making contact with Hawaii. It could be ancient or modern. The presentations will be centered at the Museum Art School Gallery but will also have a presence around town.
1111 Victoria Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
Isn’t it curious how so many of us have settled in a place so far from virtually every other place on earth? Some fluke of fate has deposited us here. And yet we have been guided somehow. Maybe, there is a higher purpose, or maybe it is just chance. But the wind blew in our favor, at least for a while.
Resonations, Reverberations, Encapsulations
new works by George Woollard
I am very pleased to have had the opportunity to show a substantial body of work at Place. A Design Atelier by Philpotts. The way the work was presented was like a stage set with a full compliment of furnishings that gave the feeling of being in someone’s living room. It was very tastefully done and showed my work and the furniture to surprising advantage.
Honolulu Printmakers 90th Annual Exhibition
Thank you for coming to see the Honolulu Printmakers 90th Annual statewide juried exhibition that was shown at the Honoululu Museum of Art School gallery. This was one of the best shows of the year, lively and inventive and featured the best work of artists throughout the state.
1111 Victoria Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
Across Generations
with George Woollard, Marry Philpotts, Kathy Merrill-Keely
Thank you for joining us in celebrating the art of printmaking at the HISAM museum gallery shop and the Artizen Gallery at the Hawaii State Art Museum. This was a joint show with the Honolulu Printmakers and focuses on the work of printmaking teachers and their students.
George Woollard has shown new large scale color abstractions and Mary Philpotts-Mcgrath and Kathy Merrill Kelley joined him with their own colorful prints.
This show overlapped and compliment the annual Hawaii Printmakers exhibition that took place in the main gallery at the Honolulu Museum of Art School later that month. Printmaking was in the air and this was a good chance to get taste for this exciting and versatile medium.
250 S Hotel Street, Honolulu, HI 96813.
Ecuador 2017 Workshop Exhibition
Presented by George Woollard & Students at Honolulu Museum of Art School.
Artists: George Woollard, Mary Dikon, Bobbie Sakae, Betty Fullard-Leo, Josephine Savarese, Kaui Philpotts, Ellen Van Spyk.
Read more about the Ecuador workshop and show.
P.S. There are still a few spots left for Ecuador 2018 workshop. Contact George for more information.
Hawaii Craftsmen 50th Annual Statewide Juried Show
The Hawaii Craftsmen organization is one of the oldest and most respected arts group in the islands. The annual show is a highlight of the exhibitions calendar for the year and is always held at the prestigious Honolulu Museum of Arts School in the main gallery. Important artists and curators from around the world are invited to jury this statewide show. It is a difficult show to be accepted into and doubly an honor to receive an award. Fine art and craft are increasingly intermixed with art that is well crafted and craft that is artistic. It is sure to be an exciting and memorable event.
I’m honored to be part of the show with Louise, Thelma and Esther, which received the Merit Award in Wood Arts, Sponsored by Peter Drewliner Trust.
Honolulu Museum of Art School, Main Gallery, 1111 Victoria St, Honolulu, HI 96814.
I Ka Piko
Nine Hawaii Printmakers
A select group of Hawaii printmakers was invited to show at the Ropewalk Gallery in Hull England during the summer and now we are representing some of these works at the Cedar Street Galleries here in Honolulu. It is thematic in the sense that we were chosen because of the strong sense of place that our work expresses. We feel the presence of the islands and respect that connection in our work.
Featuring Veiled Prints by George Woollard
Patterns can be significant as parts are to a puzzle. It is a game of relationships that allow for some maneuvering, some placement and design that is dynamic like nature but also analytical like the human mind. It is this dual purpose, to be at once familiar and surprising that interests me.
The plates are made of plexiglass and built up with acrylic gel medium using stamps made from found objects. Maybe you see the bathroom tiles or CD spacers I used, or maybe it looks like pineapple slices. I want the pieces to be playful. I want them to engage you in a kind of three dimensional chess, patterns that move left to right and also top to bottom. The colors, textures and shapes can be combined and recombined in innumerably different ways as all the plates in the series, of which there are many more, are all made to be divisible by three inches. (9×12, 3×6, 18×24).
To make it even more interesting, I asked my printmaking class (Discovering Prints, HMAS) to each contribute at least one plate that anyone else in the class could use. The students and myself included in effect became parts in a larger puzzle. I like this ambiguity of identities. If it seems to me, that the most interesting works are the ones that challenge definitions. If it does not look like anything you know then it is more likely to be original. The quality of originality is what drives art and society forward. Therefor, I actively seek a look that falls between the cracks. These works are somewhere between printmaking, collage and painting and have sculptural qualities as well.
Little Picture Show
Jinja Kim and I have been asked by our friends in the Watercolor Society to show some of our work as a compliment to the paintings on display at the Arts at Marks Garage.
Jinja has showed a few of her artist’s invitation card house constructions and I have put together a group of small scale sculptures that I call Composite Sculptures. These are pieces that I have assembled from parts that either did not get used or were never really sufficient in them selves. The emphasis is on fanciful. Like most of my 3-D work, they are made of Lychee wood and painted with cashew lacquer.
As many of you know, I am also an enthusiastic watercolor painter and have always loved the dialogue between these two media. It’s like the watercolors are informed by the concrete qualities of the sculpture and the sculptures are informed by the fluid qualities of the watercolor. They are naturally complimentary. It is my hope that this relationship will happen in this show which is devoted to essentially watercolors.
Wire and Wood
My wife Jinja Kim and I had an art show at the Koa Art Gallery at KCC in April 2017. We called it “Wire and Wood”. It was a collaboration where we showed our differing sensibilities, hers being light and airy and mine being heavy and dense.
In both our works there is the intention to up-cycle, to take found objects from our property and transform them into art. In her case it is metal and mine is wood. We tried to put on a show that was both visually and intellectually provocative and satisfying. We are so grateful to all of our friends and family that supported us with so much affection and good will, and everyone who came to see the show. Mahalo!