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The extensive art collection at the Grand Wailea Resort
consists of over 81 works including original paintings,
sculpture, graphics, murals and artifacts. This incredible
collection is featured throughout the grounds and public
areas of the resort, as well as in NaPua Gallery.
International Collection:
Fernando Botero
(1932----) Born - Medillin, Colombia
Fernando Botero is one of the best and perhaps the most
popular contemporary artists in the world today. His unique
style is instantly recognizable. In the course of three
decades, his hard and disciplined effort resulted in more
than 1,000 paintings, serveral thousand drawings; and
beginning in the mid-1970's, a number of distinctive
bodies of sculpture in bronze and polyester resins.
"In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound
to deform nature. Art is deformation." - F. Botero
The Grand Wailea Resort displays its collection of nine Botero bronzes within the main lobby atrium. Resting amidst blooming gardens are:
Paolina
La France
Broadgate Venus
Woman with Mirror
Woman Smoking a Cigarette
Mother and Child
The Lovers
Man with Cane
Sleepless Night
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Fernand Leger
(1881-1955) Born - Argentan, Normandy
Fernand Leger, along with Picasso and Braque formed the
core of modernism in the twentieth century. Leger worked
in a wide range of media aside from painting and
sculpting: film, mosaic and ceramics. Leger was born
in Argentan, Normandy in 1881.
The Leger collection at Grand Wailea Resort includes a
set of 18 bronzes, which were created during 1950-1953, and
cast posthumously in 1960. This is the only complete set in
the world other than the one at the National Leger Museum
in Southern France.
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"Les Femmes au Perroquet"
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Toward the end of his life. Leger became intensely interested in
using bronze because of its monochromatic formal qualities as well
as its durability.
In addition to the set of 18 bronzes, also on display is Leger's
painted bronze sculpture, Les Femmes au Perroquet. This can be
viewed at Grand Wailea's NaPua Gallery.
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This incredible art collection is featured in an art tour which covers the fascinating
works located throughout the resort grounds and in NaPua Gallery.
Art Tour
While works by artists of international stature Fernando Botero and Fernand Leger provide the cornerstones of the collection,
regional artists also play an important role:
Tom Sewell
Saturo Abe
(1926 -----) Born - Honolulu, Hawaii
Satoru Abe's sculptures of abstracted natural forms blend in with their
real counterparts while at the same time emphasizing the artist's
craftmanship and inherent qualities of the chosen media. He is known for
his welded metal, especially copper and bronze, and wood sculptures. Abe
has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. His work
has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, the Contemporary Museum
and the Whitney Museum. Satoru Abe was elected a "Living Treasure" of
Hawaii.
Grand Wailea's collection includes:
"The Moon Over the Trees"
"Three Landscapes"
"Twin Trees"
"The Moon Through the Trees" (pictured)
"Coral Trees"
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Mordecai Ardon
(1896-1992) Born - Tuchow, Poland
Mordecai Ardon was one of Israel's leading painters, and his work is
represented in major museums and important private collections throughout
the world.
The artist had a turbulent life as actor, revolutionary, Bauhas disciple,
and teacher. Ardon's paintings have universal and immediate appeal. They are
known for their gemlike colors, technical brilliance and great variety of mood,
ranging from the playfully ironic to the mysterious and pensive. The years
of his artistic maturation were in Jerusalem, where his stylistic evolution
from realism to abstraction was fully realised.
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Ardon's paintings are not created by intellectual decisions and
technical procedures alone. He speaks of the "hidden spark" which
appears suddenly in the midst of working, overturning all his
calculations. Bringing the painting to life with his brush and colors,
Ardon exalts all creation. Whether he paints leaf, stone, sun, moon,
wind or rain, the image is never merely a depiction of outer reality
but a revelation of its essence. In bringing forms to life on the
canvas, Ardon adds a dimension to our perception of the universe,
endowing it with fresh meaning.
Mordecai Ardon
1896 - Born at Tuchow, Poland
1920-1925 - Student at the "Bauhaus" School, Weimar.
1933 - Immigrated to Jerusalem.
1948 - EXHIBITION: Jewish Museum, New York.
1953 - EXHIBITION: Metropolitan Museum of Art, new York.
1954, 1958 - EXHIBITION: Venice Biennale (Israeli Pavillion).
1960 - "Guggenheim International Award", Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1960 - EXHIBITION: "Contemporary Israeli Art", Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
1960 - EXHIBITION: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
1962, 1973 - EXHIBITION: Marlborouh Fine Art, London.
1963 - EXHIBITION: Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem.
1963 - EXHIBITION: Tel Aviv Museum.
1963 - Israel Prize for painting.
1963 - EXHIBITION: Museum of Modern Art, Haifa.
1964 - EXHIBITION: "Art Israel", Jewish Museum, NY.
1965, 1972 - EXHIBITION: Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
1967, 1980 - EXHIBITION: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York.
1968 - EXHIBITION: Venice Biennale.
1981 - Awarded Honorary Fellowship at Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design
1985 - SINGLE PERSON EXHIBITION: Retrospective Show, Tel Aviv Museum.
1990 - EXHIBITION: "Jewish Experience in the Art of the 20th Century", Barbican Center, London.
1990 - Passed Away.
1995 - EXHIBITION: Marlborough Fine Art, London.
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Henry Bianchini
(1935 -----) Born - San Diego California
Henry Bianchini has been a resident of Hawaii since 1969. His sculptures depict
the interactions of people which demonstrate the similarities of human behavior
common to all cultures. These activities reach a core of existence in ritualistic
habits. Bianchini's works express both primordial and trial sensitivity toward
human conditions that are playful, joyful and ceremonial. The piece pictured here
is entitled "Dancers", and is appropriately situated beside Grand Wailea Resort's
Group Entrance.
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Fernando Botero
(1932----) Born - Medillin, Colombia
Fernando Botero is one of the best and perhaps the most popular
contemporary artists in the world today. His unique style is
instantly recognizable. In the course of three decades, his hard
and disciplined effort resulted in more than 1,000 paintings,
serveral thousand drawings; and beginning in the mid-1970's, a
number of distinctive bodies of sculpture in bronze and polyester
resins.
"In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature.
Art is deformation." - F. Botero
The Grand Wailea Resort displays its collection of nine Botero bronzes
within the main lobby atrium. Resting amidst blooming gardens are:
Paolina
La France
Broadgate Venus
Woman with Mirror
Woman Smoking a Cigarette
Mother and Child
The Lovers
Man with Cane
Sleepless Night
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Sean K.L. Browne
(1953 -----) Born - Hilo, Hawaii
Sean K.L. Browne studied marble carving under Paoli Silverio in Italy
and received a Fullbright Fellowship to study stone sculpture in Japan
under Isamu Noguchi. His works - metal and stone sculptures which often
reflect Hawaiian motifs such as the piece pictured to right entitled
"Manu Lei" (Bird Pendant) - have been exhibited in Hawaii, California,
Italy and Japan. Also displayed on the grounds of Grand Wailea Resort
is Browne's "Wa'u Pohaku" (Stone Scraper).
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Edward Brownlee
(1929 -----) Born - Portland, Oregon
A resident of Hawaii for 20 years, Brownlee was the first recipient
of a masters degree in art from the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
He specializes in, but is not limited to, architectural sculpture.
It was Brownlee's vision which helped to establish the State Foundation
on Culture and the Arts' program on "Art in Public Places". The purpose
of the program is to enhance the environment of public buildings and
spaces, and to enrich the public's awareness and appreciation of visual
art. The piece pictured here overlooks the Grand Wailea Resort's Formal
Hibiscus Pool.
The Grand Wailea's collection includes
"Holokai" (2 Canoe Prows)
"Makau O Maui" (Twin Fishhooks)
"Hoaka O Kala" (Crest of the Sun)
"Nai'a Kauhulu" (A Gathering of Dolphins - pictured)
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Ben Kikuyama
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The animals in Ben Kikuyama's paintings are whimsical
enigmas. On the surface, they are cute and clever
creatures combining artistic elements and adept
craftsmanship in subtle and unexpected ways. The
clever titles suggest a richer understanding that
seldom goes astray. Underneath is a social commentary
albeit tactful. Kikuyama's spirited critters are fun
playful things that'll knock you down and lick your
face just when you don't expect it.
A favorite subject for Kikuyama, his mixed media cat
and dog paintings, are inhabited by strange and exotic, yet
familiar creatures and shadowy figures in stark
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black and white and luxuriant color. The animals themselves
serve as canvas for these travels with Kikuyama. They are
charming and puzzling, yet entertaining with the dry sense
of humor that marks island life. Kikuyama's dogs are reminiscent
of his island home's poi dogs with their multinational pedigrees
that symbolize the cultural diversity of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Ting Shao Kuang
(1939 -----) Born - Cheng-ku, China
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Although he studied socialist realism at "Beijing's
Central Academy", Kuang was secretly influenced by the
works of Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani. One of China's
foremost living artists, his work imparts a purposeful
marriage of ancient customs, masterful brush strokes and
calligraphic lines mixed with the starkness and beauty
of modernism. This unique style combines traditional
Chinese painting techniques and the more expressive
qualities of Western art. Kuang's personal feelings
led him to seek artistic freedom in the United States
in 1980.
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Fernand Leger
(1881-1955) Born - Argentan, Normandy
Fernand Leger, along with Picasso and Braque formed the
core of modernism in the twentieth century. Leger worked
in a wide range of media aside from painting and
sculpting: film, mosaic and ceramics. Leger was born
in Argentan, Normandy in 1881.
The Leger collection at Grand Wailea Resort includes a
set of 18 bronzes, which were created during 1950-1953, and
cast posthumously in 1960. This is the only complete set in
the world other than the one at the National Leger Museum
in Southern France.
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"Les Femmes au Perroquet"
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Toward the end of his life. Leger became intensely interested in
using bronze because of its monochromatic formal qualities as well
as its durability.
In addition to the set of 18 bronzes, also on display is Leger's
painted bronze sculpture, Les Femmes au Perroquet. This can be
viewed at Grand Wailea's NaPua Gallery.
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Diana Lehr
(1881-1955) Born - Argentan, Normandy
Clouds burst as they hit the land, and purple and
red-orange roads wind through country landscapes
that are at once familiar and surreal in Diana
Lehr's brilliantly hued pastels and oils. Drawn
to places where the elements in nature collide, the
thirty-eight year old painter's canvas reveals her
fascination with this interaction. Lehr seems to
paint as much from her mental interpretations as
she does from her visual perceptions, resulting
in scenes that go beyond the tangible. A quality
of extremes and contrasts makes her work appear
abandoned and free.
She loves the times of day when light changes, when
colors are warm and bathed in surrealism. Green trees
mystically turn to orange; blue rivers shade to deep
purple. The winter light in Kaupo or the way the
clouds tumble off Haleakala and hit the green slopes
of Kula can absorb her total attention.
In recent years, Lehr has begun to travel more in
order to draw inspiration from a variety of locales. Today, she
generally splits her time between Pennsylvania and
Maui, spending six months of the year in each place. Many
of her paintings begin on Maui as sketches, which she
then takes to Pennsylvania. Once she begins to translate
those sketches into larger formats in oil, the creative
process slows considerably while she works deliberately
and slowly from them until they evolve to finished
canvases.
While saving the world's landscapes has never consciously
been her intention, collectors of her work say they begin
to see the world differently. A painting that at first
seems too abstract to be real, with colors that never
appear in nature, after awhile can make its owner begin
seeing as the artist did. It becomes clear that at a
particular time on a particular day, the sky really is
magenta and the grass yellow. When a viewer of Lehr's
work begins to pay attention to the familiar world
around him, to see the world in the way the artist
herself perceived it, Lehr feels her work is complete. She
has communicated more than what appears on the surface. She
has captured her surreal landscapes on canvas in colors
that are brighter than life itself.
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Zhou Ling
(1941 -----) Born - Tianjin, China
In 1960, Zhou Ling began her studies in Chinese
art at the Central Institute of Nationalities. She
went on to also study Western art and history, despite
political problems for those who strayed from the
party-approved Socialistic realism.
Today, Zhou Ling lives in Chicago where she paints images
that represent the tribal people and tropical environment
of the Huang Yongyu. Her heavy color techniques became
characteristic of the Yunnan School artists.
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Jennifer Markes
(1964 -----) Born - Los Angeles, California
"No rules, no reasons. Red house, green door, yellow
windows, bucket of mangoes, white chicken, blue
water... it's color as a celebration of everyday
life. Color is the perpetual motion of my paintings."
Markes has a unique ability to project her personality
into each painting while beckoning the viewer to share
her joy in nature and simplicity. The subjects are
accessible and they have an innate power which draws
strength from the artist's ability to express what
it is to be human and alive.
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Wayne Miyata
(1943 -----) Born - Honolulu, Hawaii
Wayne Miyata is a noted local ceramist/sculptor whose
works can be seen throughout the state of Hawaii in
both public and private collections. A resident of
the island of Kauai, he is currently concentrating
on teaching.
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Peter & Madeline Powell
It's not often that two individual artists are able
to combine and express their talents to produce a
single body of work. Peter and Madeline Powell have
this rare creative alliance. Essentially, painting
is a solo endeavor, yet the Powells have accomplished
a seamless blend of unity in their work.
Having met on Maui in 1976, they soon started
working on each other's artwork and before too
long, it developed into a natural way of
approaching and completing a painting for them.
"Life's treats and play things from the past & present"
are what we capture in our paintings. We enjoy taking the
little things out of everyday life and giving them the
prominence and importance they had when we were children. Our
paintings invoke the childhood spirit that everyday
life has buried deep within us.
Peter & Madeline Powell are artists who have wed exacting
technical photorealism to the sensual memories of one of
childhood's most pleasurable activities. Eating candy. Not
only getting it, but holding it, looking at it and unwrapping
it. The smell, touch, shape, feel and taste of it all come
strikingly through the dramatically, over-sized images of
Hershey Kisses, Bazooka Bubble Gum, M & M's, and Lollipops, to
name a few. Of course, the Powells have covered other
subjects, most notably Crayons, Toys, Cars, even Florals
and an occasional scenic! But in each case as well, the
viewer is pulled into a bursting world of form and color.
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Douglas Riseborough
(1922 -----) Born - Canada
Douglas Riseborough, a Canadian by birth, began
his career in Los Angeles where he painted murals
for U.C.L.A. in the Law Library. Collectors of
his work include the royal family in Saudi
Arabia, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein and
actor Carroll O'Connor.
The mural pictured is entitled "The Birth of Maui", and
was expressly commissioned by Grand Wailea, to be displayed
in the resort's Grand Dining Room. The mural depicts the
legend of the demigod Maui, as told in ancient Hawaii. Legend
has it that the days were much shorter then, because the
sun would race across the sky. Hina, mother of demigod
Maui, complained to her son that her tapa cloth did not
have enough time to dry. So early one morning, Maui
climbed to the summit of Mount Haleakala and lassoed
the sun. As a result, the sun agreed to slow its pace
and the tapa cloth of Maui's mother could now dry
properly.
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Esther Shimazu
(1957 -----) Born - Honolulu, Hawaii
Esther C. Shimazu's sculptures are made
using standard pottery vessel-making methods
and are accordingly hollow and voluminous.
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Tony Walholm
This prolific painter, printmaker and teacher
was born in Honolulu in 1945, the fifth generation
of a Maui Portuguese family.
Tony makes his home on the slopes of Haleakala on
the island of Maui in a setting of rural beauty, close
to the nature which forms such a strong inspiration
for his abstract works of elegance and subtle evocative
power. "If one can see past the beauty of the landscape, you
realize what an intensely strong and warm light there
is here. It infuses everything, it is very similar to
that of the Mediterranean. I absolutely love it!" states
the artist; though as an artist, his references to nature
or to landscape are never deliberate nor direct.
Marcia Godinez, art writer for the Maui News, has written: "for
this artist has climbed inside his subject matter and reduced it
to undiluted essence."
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Shige Yamada
(1933 -----) Born - Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii
Shige Yamada is a noted sculptor whose career has spanned more than three decades.
He has written a book on the development of the craft of ceramics
in Hawaii and has done educational research on international
crafts and contemporary American sculpture and painting.
Yamada's work has been exhibited in the Smithsonian, the
Museum of Modern Art - Paris and the Palace of Fine Arts - Belgium. The
piece shown here is entitled Maui Captures the Sun, and is a focal
point in Grand Wailea Resort's formal restaurant, the Grand Dining
Room Maui.
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Artists in Residence
Tuesdays and Fridays 9:00am - 2:00pm
Browse sculptures, paintings, photography, wood turnings and ceramics from select local artists. Located in Lobby near Botero Bar.
NaPua Gallery is open daily from 8am to 10pm and can be reached by phone at (808) 874-0510.
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