“Pictures from an Exhibition” (Картинки с выставки) is a suite composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. Click on this link to provide yourself a musical accompaniment for viewing my photos of the exhibition reception that I attended on July 2, 2021 with my family at a fabulous new building of the Downtown Art Center (DAC) in Chinatown, Honolulu, HI.
As you can see the concept of the exhibition “Out in the Elements” was to show different types of work united by the fact that they were produced outdoors: Plein Air paintings and Raku ceramics – here are the links if you are not familiar with these terms. This explains those strange objects you see on the exhibition floor – Raku kilns. There will be a public event on Saturday, July 17 from 10 a.m. t – when everyone will be able to come to learn about and make Raku glazing and watch and see this ancient firing process.
And here are again three of my paintings that found a great match with the Raku ceramics pieces made by a fabulous artist Rebecca White Taggart.
And here we are Mark Brown, and I, posing with our paintings.
Mark, is quite a famous artist in Hawaii: see his website. He is a Signature Member of Plein Air Painters of Hawaii. He is also an incredibly generous and kind person who bought and presented the lei that you can see on me, as well as to EVERY artist who had work in this show(!!!). Mark is also an excellent teacher. He has a large following coming to his Plein Air classes on Saturday, which I also started attending since February this year. Mark is helping everyone with his artistic advice, makes jokes and makes everyone laugh. I occasionally include him in my paintings, as you can see here in my painting below – Mark is painting in the sunflower fields.
Mark initially criticized my painting for the proportions of his figure. I promised to improve it but… well, I did not. I felt since it was made on location, under the sky and under some certain impression, this would be easily ruined by “straightening” the proportions. I was going to tell everyone that is it my imaginary “Van Gogh in Hawaii”. However, everyone who sees this painting, if they knew Mark, guessed it was Mark. So, there was no way to hide it. So, sorry, Mark! Your legs are NOT really that short!!! LOL
So, anyway, I felt honored to have my painting exhibited next to Mark’s. He presented 7 of his great paintings, and one of them already was sold even before the exhibition opening. He is a great colorist and I admire the richness of his paint application. Here are, again, Mark’s paintings on the walls:
Make sure to check out his website www.marknbrownfineart.com to see more of his beautiful paintings.
After the show we went to a nearby brewery:
A day after the reception I was volunteering at the exhibition, sitting the show, making sales and providing art demonstrations along with another artist and friend Marina Borovok. Here is Marina and her beautiful paintings:
Marina went LIVE on Facebook during the show where she literally went over EVERY artwork created by 48 artists participating in the show. I highly recommend to watch this recorded video, however, I am not sure how long it will be available online.
That is all I wanted to share about this wonderful exhibition.
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