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| 'The Big Easy--New Orleans' -- Photos Essays by Laura Ruby and Johnny Donnels |
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6/6/2012-7/13/2012
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Koa Gallery
Kapiolani Community College
Koa 104
4303 Diamond Head Road
Honolulu, HI 96816
David Behlke,
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free
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An exhibition of photographs of New Orleans--the city known as 'The Big Easy,' 'The Crescent City,' and 'The City that Care Forgot.'
Reception June 7, 2012 - 4:30 to 6
The photo identification is:
top: Jazz Intermezzo Olympia Brass Band by Johnnhy Donnels
bottom: Mardi Gras World by Laura Ruby
The video "Man in the Pink Satin Suit," the documentary about artist Johnny Donnels will be shown in the gallery
Learn more about Koa Gallery
http://koagallery.kcc.hawaii.edu/
New Orleans is the Crescent City. It fits the many bends of the Mississippi River. One neighborhood is named Riverbend. Another neighborhood, Algiers, is on the west or opposite side of the river and is connected to the rest of the city by ferry and bridge. Streets parallel to the river's path curve, while cross streets radiate from the river creating many wedge-shaped districts.
New Orleans, is also called the Big Easy, and for the most, it is a relaxed cosmopolitan town where many people come together around music. And jazz is everywhere. Many of the clubs are small and the audiences almost sit with the musicians.
New Orleans is a city that loves its food and drink. Food celebrates occasions whether it be Mardi Gras king cakes or New Years' cabbage and black eye peas or every Monday's red beans and rice with andoui or any other kind of sausage added to the pot.
New Orleans is also the City that Care Forgot. The impositions of time on the once Spanish, later French and finally American town cover the city in a patina of age-- foliage grows out of all possible crevasses in buildings and streets.
BIOGRAPHY
Laura Ruby is the 2008 recipient of the Hawai'i Individual Artist Fellowship (the highest honor in the visual arts). Her prints and sculptures have been shown in national and international solo, juried and invitational exhibitions. Some of her artworks are: her "Nancy Drew Series," about the art of art-making and the art of detection; her ongoing "Diamond Head Series" which currently has over 60 prints, drawings and site-specific installation sculptures, and is about land and power in Hawai'i--about the exploitation of land, and its resources and people and their livelihoods; her "Image and Word" series; and her "I'm Always Thinking of Chaucer" series about the conjunction of The Canterbury Tales, jazz and art-making. She also has large commissioned site-specific sculptures, among them Chinatown--Site of Passage. She has taught art at the University of Hawaii since 1977 through 2011. She edited the book, Mo‘ili‘ili--The Life of a Community, and has just published a book entitled Honolulu Town. Her website (www.laurarubyart.com) features the range of her artworks.
Johnny Donnels (1924-2009) was a French Quarter artist who began as a painter on Jackson Square, and later moved to his own gallery at 634 St. Peter Street, where he remained for over fifty years. A native New Orleanian who lived all over the city, Mr. Donnels served in the Army in World War II, and it was his military service, rife with discipline and conformity, that prompted his career in the arts. "He decided to be an artist because he wanted to be his own boss for the rest of his life," said his daughter, Lurana. In the historic building known as the Skyscraper and home to generations of Bohemian artists and musicians, he worked in a second-floor studio and greeted visitors in a first-floor gallery. In 1970, he bartered a painting for a Konica camera, and began a new artistic life working with black and white photography. In the late ‘90s, he began exploring computer art, and recast many of his former paintings and photographs into colorful new versions.
Donnels exhibited his paintings and photography at the Kennedy Center, Harvard University, the Ford Times Collection of American Art, the National Academy of Design, New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Historic New Orleans Collection. His website (http://www.johnnydonnels.com)features 152 of his photographs and computer art. His 1999 book Johnny Donnels' IntoPhotography: 50 years, 50 photographs, 50 stories brings together images and stories of his 50-plus years as an artist. In 2006, Donnels's scenes of New Orleans inspired the scenography for the Kennedy Theatre production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire directed by his daughter Lurana Donnels O'Malley, a professor of Theatre at UH M‚noa.
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