Wailoa Center exhibits ‘The Honolulu Academy: 1960-1980’

The 2016 University of Hawaii Summer Art Institute – Hilo (SummerAi) exhibition “The Honolulu Academy: 1960-1980” in the Wailoa Center Main Gallery opens this afternoon.

A public reception from 4:30-7:00 p.m. is planned. The exhibit will remain on view at the center through July 28 at the Hilo gallery.

The gallery will present a selection of prints from the collection of Peter A. Lubke, and feature work by Joseph Feher and a circle of professional and student associates. Works from this collection straddles the post-Statehood period and time Feher was director of the Art School of the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

Feher, a native of Miscolz, Hungary, attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Teachers College in Budapest, and also the Academy Bella Arte in Florence, Italy. In 1928, he began studying art and design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he later taught, while establishing his career as a commercial and portrait artist.

Feher took a leave of absence from the Chicago institute in 1934; traveled to Hawaii and spent a year painting in the Puna District. In 1947, he returned permanently to the islands. First hired as an instructor at Honolulu Academy of Arts, he later became the academy’s director and curator of prints. He was also senior curator of prints at Bishop Museum until his death in 1987.

The exhibition will feature works by James S. Koga, Edward Yuk-Wong Li, Joe Singer, Huc-Mazelet Luquiens, Jean Charlot , Vivian Lynn, Lorenzo Agngarayngay, Terry Mertz, Tetsuo Ochikubo, Jerry Schurr, Shigeru Narikawa, George Woollard, Jinja Kim and others.

The center’s Fountain Gallery, will present a photo essay of the recently completed University of Hawaii at Hilo and Manoa student collaboration and scientific data visualization project that was conducted at Imiloa Astronomy Center during the spring 2016.

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