2001 International Invitational Works on Paper Exhibition

The Art Department of the University of Hawaii at Hilo and the UHH Student Activities Council present the 2001 International Invitational Works on Paper Exhibition in the Campus Center Gallery during October, 2001 through January, 2002.

The exhibition includes artists from throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan. The works in the exhibition feature mixed media, printmaking, and drawing. The printmaking media include work in color and in black-and-white in applications of intaglio, lithography, collagraphs, and combinations of different printmaking techniques.

Keith Achepohl

Keith Achepohl is the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts and Head of the Printmaking Program at the University of Iowa. He is also the Director for the University of Iowa Summer Program in Venice, Italy. His work has been presented in more than a hundred solo exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. His work has received numerous awards and is in the collections of major institutions including the Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco; the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid; the Grunwald Collection, UCLA; the Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; and many others. Achepohl has been a Fulbright Fellow to Egypt and Turkey. He has been a visiting artist in colleges and universities throughout the United States, Germany, Venice, Madrid, and Cairo. He is showing intaglio color prints in the exhibition.

Sara Amos

Sarah Amos is the resident master printer at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. She completed her studies at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1992. Amos has been the resident master printer since 1994. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States. She is represented by multi-plate color monoprints which were completed during 2000-2001.

James Groleau

James Groleau, originally from Lewiston, Maine, lives in San Francisco. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and in Poland, Romania, Egypt, and the Netherlands. He has received fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire and the Vermont Studio Center. Groleau’s print was purchased by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in the Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition at the University of Hawaii at Hilo in 2000. Groleau is represented by work in color mezzotint, an intaglio printmaking medium.

Donna Grote

Donna Grote is a 1988 graduate of the art program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and received her M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University in 1991. She currently teaches at St. Louis Community College at Meramec, St. Louis, Missouri. In 1999-2000, she taught at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. She presented solo exhibitions of her work at the World Trade Center Gallery and JW’s Gallery, both in St. Louis, during 2001. Grote shows mixed media work on paper in the exhibition.

Yoshio Imamura

Yoshio Imamura lives in Nagano, Japan. His work has been exhibited in numerous major international exhibitions in Asia, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. He has had more than thirty solo exhibitions in Japan, Korea, and the Netherlands. Imamura received purchase awards from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts during 2001, 1997, and 1995 in the Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He presents work in combinations or printmaking media in the exhibition. More of his work can be viewed at his web site: http://www.clio.ne.jp/home/ima-de/.

Ken Kerslake

Ken Kerslake is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and founder of the Printmaking Program in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida where he taught for 38 years. In the past 40 years, Kerslake’s work have been included in dozens of competitive, invitational, and solo print exhibitions throughout the world. His work can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Library of Congress, the National Collection, Yale University, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Seattle Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum and many others. He received a State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Purchase Award in the 2001 Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition. Kerslake’s works in the exhibit are intaglio and lithographic prints using digital transfer techniques and a graphite drawing. Kerslake’s work may also be viewed at the web site: http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~kenk/.

Davida Kidd

Davida Kidd, lives in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She has taught at the University College of the Fraser Valley, the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and the University of British Columbia. Kidd’s work has been presented in several hundred exhibitions throughout the world. Her work has received many awards in Canada, U.S., Norway, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Austria, and Germany and is included in major collections in Europe, North America, Japan, and Egypt. In 1999, she received a purchase award from the Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition in Hilo. Kidd displays a series of intaglio prints with photo-etching and chine colle.

Rebecca Ramos

Rebecca Ramos, originally from Honolulu, teaches at the California State University, Monterey Bay. She has also taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Vermont College of Norwich University. She received a B.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1987 and completed her graduate studies at the University of Colorado in 1991. Ramos has presented her work in exhibitions in Hawaii, California, Arizona, Florida, and Colorado. Her prints in the exhibition are collagraph and mixed media combinations.

The Campus Center Gallery is located on the third floor of the Campus Center. An exhibition program will be available at the Campus Center information desk or through the Art Department. For more information regarding the exhibition, please contact the Art Department at 974-7524 or 974-7307.

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