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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" |
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:
Ada Horn
As the child of Burmese and Chinese parents, Ada grew up in China, Burma, and Singapore, and
has spent many years in Germany, France, and the United States. Not until she retired to France
15 years ago to study music did she discover her talent for painting. Watercolor has been her
preferred medium since the years she spent painting in “pleine aire” on location in the French
Alps. Then, Ada moved to Maui. Delighted by the burst of colors and vegetation surrounding her,
her watercolors came alive.
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Carla Crow
Carla Crow was born in Chicago in 1946 and attended Northern Michigan University in the mid 70’s.
Before moving to Hawaii in 1985, she was Director of the Stone Gallery in Hays, Kansas. Carla
uses richly textured, handmade Mulberry Bark paper as her primary medium. The paper is made in a
small village in northern Mexico.
Carla has been juried into the Art Maui Annual Exhibit twelve times as well as participating
in numerous group and theme exhibits.
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Chris Campbell
The artist was raised in New Orleans and moved to New York City to finish her medical training.
Upon completing a fellowship in nuclear medicine at Harvard, she retired from medicine to pursue
her true passion-art.
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Dale Chihuly
A prodigiously prolific artist whose work balances content with an investigation of the
material's properties of translucency and transparency, Chihuly began working with glass
at a time when reverence for the medium and for technique was paramount. A student of interior
design and architecture in the early 1960s, by 1965 he had become captivated by the process of
glassblowing. Stylistically over the past forty years, Chihuly's sculptures in glass have explored
color, line, and assemblage. Although his work ranges from the single vessel to indoor/outdoor
site-specific installations, he is best known for his multipart blown compositions.
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Diane KW and Associates
In today’s world the architectural landscape is for the most part, straight and right-angled.
The contrarian in Diane Chen therefore prefers the curved wheel-thrown form or the hand-built
round sphere to carve. She collaborates with 3 ceramic artists, Daven Hee, Cory Lum and Joel Park –
they throw beautiful forms for her– and watch while she takes their lovely pieces and carves away
at them. Diane likes to think that she adds something by cutting away….less is more.
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Francois Bruere
Francois Bruere is a graduate of the National Art Academy of Paris and is the official
licensed artist to the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, organizers of the legendary LE MANS 24
hour race. His work for the ACO and other race organization include paintings of the winning
marques, original race posters and trophy design. Francois’ paintings combine the triumph of
victory, the beauty of the car and the passion of the event.
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Gustavo Torres
Gustavo Torres was born in Guadalajara, Mexico where he began sculpting and training with
accomplished artists such as Luis Larios at a very young age. Torres left Mexico in 1991 after
receiving his BFA at the University of Guadalajara to pursue a career in the United States. He
currently resides in Northern California. His sculptures have been exhibited at the Carmel Arts
Association and prominent fine art galleries throughout the country.
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Gwen Arkin
Originally from the Midwest, Gwen received a BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
After graduation she moved to Colorado where she continued her studies at the University of
Colorado, receiving an MFA. She went on to teach photography at the Colorado Institute of Art.
She now resides on the island of Maui, in Hawaii, and teaches photography at Hui No’eau Visual
Art Center.
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Howard Fox
Howard Fox was born in Toronto, Canada in 1955. Between 1975 and 1979 he studied Education
B.F.A.H. at York University, Toronto. He met his Israeli-born wife, Dorit, in the Far-East
which brought him to Israel. He currently lives and works in Carkor, Israel.
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Jim Stewart
Jim Stewart, born in 1949, is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and has been creating
figurative and abstract drawings and paintings since the early 70s. Critically acclaimed artist
in the Globe and Mail newspaper and the Art Review magazine, he has exhibited his work in Toronto
and abroad since 1975.
His illustrations have appeared in international magazines including Islands magazine, Esquire,
Rotunda, University of Toronto, Saturday Night, Toronto Life, Imperial Oil Review and In the
Hills.
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Ken Kennell
Ken Kennell has lived on Maui since April 2001, after 22 years in Alaska where he built a log
home and raised three daughters. Ken has been creating paintings since 1970, mostly employing an
impressionist technique known as Pointillism. This kind of painting depends upon the close
juxtaposition of tiny points of intense pure-tone colors to produce a whole that is made up of
its integral vibratory parts. It is also, as you can imagine, one of the most time-consuming
styles of painting known.
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Ken Shutt
Born in Long Beach, California in December 1928, Shutt grew up in Whittier, California. He received
his art education at Pasadena City College, Art Center School, and Chouinard Art Institute- all in
California. During a long, prolific life, Shutt won commissions in disparate parts of the world, from
the U.S. mainland, to Malaysia, Thailand, and China; but it was Hawaii that captured his heart and
where he spent over 30 productive years.
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Kit Gentry
Kit Gentry's career as an artist has taken him from his home state of Michigan to destinations as
distant as Hawaii and French Polynesia. Kit received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the
University of Michigan School of Art. After a 16-year residence on Maui, he now lives near Smoky
Mountains National Park in Tennessee, where he continues to work primarily in oil and
pastel, with an emphasis on fine craftsmanship and the use of archival materials to ensure the
longevity of his work.
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Ricardo Vasquez
For the past 30 years Ricardo Vasquez has been designing and creating unique custom furniture
and cabinetry that satisfies client’s requirements for functionality while adding beauty to their
environment. Now living on the Hawaiian island of Maui Ricardo designs and builds custom furniture
that is display at the top gallery on the island and is also available for commission work. Largely
self-taught Ricardo Vasquez has designed and built custom furniture for executive offices, private
homes and custom interiors for mega-yachts.
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Roxanne Broadbent
Born in Wisconsin, Roxanne was interested in art at an early age, painting and drawing
horses and the rural countryside of her home. She and her family moved to Maui in 2003,
where she paints today on location and in her studio. Roxanne strives to express the beauty
of her island home in her saturated, radiant local landscapes
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Shaun Fleming
Shaun Fleming is an island woodworker who specializes in fine custom furniture as well as
fine bowl turning (ipus in Hawaiian). Shaun comes from an old and respected Kama’aina family.
Her Great –great Grandparents came to Maui from Norway on a ship in 1880, at that time her
Great-grandmother was three and she was raised in Keanae. This Maui craftswoman designs and
creates original furniture and other works of art as well as being an avid surfer and mother
of three.
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Todd Campbell
Todd grew up in Makiki on Oahu and learned woodworking when he moved to Maui over 35 years ago.
He developed a unique style of unorthodox wood-turning methods using oversized lathes and
long-handled chisels. Among his numerous awards, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
has acquired many works by Todd over the years and the Bishop Estate owns a handful of his
beautiful heirloom bowls.
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Tom Calhoun
Born in Waialua, O’ahu in 1953, Tom is primarily self-taught in woodworking, although Tom
credits his high school art teacher for early inspiration. The use of limited and diminishing
resources of indigenous Hawaiian woods requires an effort to remain “pono” (which roughly
translates as ‘correct behavior’). This has developed into an involvement in protecting and
encouraging the survival of native plants, thereby helping the Hawaiian Culture to also continue
which, in turn led to a major role in the restoration of “Mo’olele” Maui’s 43 foot double hulled
sailing canoe, during the mid 90’s.
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Tony Anthony
Working in New York City in the 1980’s, he was mentored by painter Phillip Pearlstein and had
several shows in New York City including the Liberty Invitational at the Jaime Szoke Gallery.
For the past six years artist Tony Anthony has been exploring with his art the ancient civilization
of Lemuria-or “MU” for short. MU was reputedly a continent that filled the Pacific basin and
disappeared beneath the ocean over 100,000 years ago.
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Vladimir Kush
Vladimir Kush was born in 1965 in a small one-story wooden house on the northern edge of
Moscow. Kush was a prodigy, showing artistic ability at the age of three or four. Vladimir
entered the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School at age 17 then later he flew to Los Angeles where
he earned money by drawing portraits on the Santa Monica pier. A few years later Vladimir spent his
savings on a ticket to his “promised land”, Hawaii. In Hawaii, Vladimir discovered the world he had
dreamed of since childhood when he painted his first oil painting of a tsunami wave falling on
Hawaiian shores.
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Will Herrera
Since establishing his studio on the island of Maui in 1977, Will Herrera has gained international
recognition for his sculpture and paintings. His works are found in corporate as well as private
collections worldwide. After receiving a scholarship to study ceramics at California State University
at Northridge, Mr. Herrera was an invited graduate student from 1972 to 1973 at the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles. At U.S.C. he studied he studied slip casting ceramic forms, an art
form dating back to fifth century China.
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Jan Fisher
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During a three year visit to Samoa, Jan developed a love for the Polynesian culture. He later moved to
Hawaii, where he has lived for the past 20 years. Since the early 1970’s Jan has created his beautiful
pieces of art only for a select few private collectors and institutions, preferring to devote his time to
teaching the fine young artists at Bringham Young University’s Hawaii campus. He has fifteen sculptures at
the Grand Wailea Resort alone.
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Diana Lehr
Diana Lehr came to Maui on a traveling scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in 1984, a
week after graduating. After two and a half years she moved to Manhattan, and from then on she spent half
of each year in Hawaii and the other half on the east coast. Her work has been collected by the Hawaii State
Foundation on Culture and Arts as well as numerous private collections across the globe.
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Zhou Ling
Zhou Ling was born in Tianjin, China in 1941 and is one of the acknowledged leaders of the Heavy Color/Yunnan
School of Chinese contemporary painting. She has become one of the premier woman artists in the United States
today. Her paintings are strong and expressive images that blend the subject matter and techniques of ancient
Chinese art with those of Western art.
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Melissa Chimera
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Melissa Chimera's first career was preserving and protecting the native Hawaiian forest.
She studied Natural Resources Management and painting at the University of Hawai`i, the
world's epicenter of plant and animal extinction. She is inspired by unknown species which
she encounters in the remote wilderness. Chimera’s years in the field confirm the relative
obscurity in which these life forms live, subjects she continually catalogs now as a
painter.
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Sandra Clark
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While living as a teenager in Tokyo, Japan, she was entranced with the aesthetics of
everyday Japanese life and studied many of Japan's traditional art forms. Her interest
in art and painting led Sandra into the academic world, teaching and inspiring college
students. Retiring recently from university teaching, she moved to Maui, spending more
time in her studio and participating in juried exhibitions.
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Michael Clements
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Born in Decatur, Illinois, Michael, when he was old enough to hold a crayon, began
his journey as an artist. He continued to paint through High School and then his
life’s course led him away from art. He worked many jobs, kept moving west and
became a prototype machinist, a horticulturalist, landscape contractor, nurseryman,
business owner, and finally he found his way back to the joy of drawing and painting.
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Vicky Chock
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Vicky Chock was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. After graduating with her
Master of Fine Art from Claremont in Southern California in 1969, Chock moved to Hawaii,
where she now lives and works. It was during her 1995 trip along the Old Silk Route in
China that Chock became acquainted with the ceramic figures of the Tang Dynasty. Chock's
work is all hand built using slab and coil technique.
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Jim Dine
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Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1935. He grew up in what he regards as the beautiful
landscape of the Midwest, a tone and time to which he returns constantly. He studied at the
University of Cincinnati and the Boston Museum School and received his BFA from Ohio University
in 1957. Through a restricted range of obsessive images, which continue to be reinvented in
various guises - bathrobe, heart, outstretched hand, wrought-iron gate, and Venus de Milo -
Dine presents compelling stand-ins for himself and mysterious metaphors for his art.
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Mary Faustine
Mary attended Maryland Institute, College of Art and graduated from the San Francisco Art
Institute. She has lived on Maui on and off for over 30 years, raising 3 daughters, gardening,
painting, and feels blessed to be surrounded by the warm and sometimes wild embrace of mother
nature.
Her paintings in oil and watercolor are simply whatever shakes her spirit; the garden,
her lover, abstract ideas, food, her children, pets....
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David Fitch
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David is fortunate to be based in two of the most beautiful locations in the world - the
San Francisco Bay Area and Maui, Hawaii - where quality, craft and artistry are appreciated
and coveted. David builds furniture of all sizes and designs for many of the top designers
and private collectors in the West, and also ships his work worldwide. He has no greater
satisfaction than making his clients’ dreams a reality, and building custom pieces that
showcase the incredible, timeless beauty furnished by nature’s elegant creations.
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Michael Gilbert
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Michael Gilbert is a third generation photographer holding a Masters Craftsman Degree in
Canada and the United States. In April 2005 he had a one-man show at the International
Museum of Photography. The entire set of 52 photographs are kept in their permanent collection.
Mr. Gilbert’s images are collected internationally and are a part of the collections of
Epson, Canon, Hahnemuhle, Olympus, Mitsubishi, and Kodak.
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Julie Houck
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Houck’s art career began in Boston where she was a professional photographer for 17 years. In
1995 Houck decided to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a painter. Houck studied with
contemporary realist painters who based their instruction on the classical principles of directly
observing color, light, and form relationships in nature. She is currently working on her MFA in
painting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
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LeoHone Magno
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The paintings of Hawai'i artist Leohone Magno, hang in many countries throughout the world.
While painting was her first love, music became equally important. Artist and musician, Leohone
holds a Master of Arts degree from Norwich University in Vermont and a Fellowship degree in Organ
Performance from Trinity College of Music, London, England. From 1982 onwards, she performed
organ recitals extensively across Canada and the Western U.S. until she retired from the concert
scene to Hawaii in 1989. Once settled, she inevitably found her way back to her first love and has
answered her call to paint.
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Richard J. McCormick
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Richard McCormick has been crafting furniture and woodworking art for nearly thirty-five years.
Though mainly self-taught, McCormick has studied under the late European master craftsman, Taige
Frid, the American master, Sam Maloof, and his early mentor, Edward Scriven. He adheres to the
strict principals of traditional time-honored furniture construction which incorporates the use of
joinery and woodworking techniques handed down from generations
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Rick Mills
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Rick Mills is a glass and mixed media sculptor and an Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii
at Manoa. He received his BFA from Ohio State University and then an MFA from the University of Hawaii.
His sculptures and blown glass are in numerous collections such as the Hawaii State Foundation on
Culture and the Arts; Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Royal College of Art, London, England.
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Tim and Vicky Robinson
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After 32-years of dealing with Cardiac Surgery products and owning his own medical company in
Northern California, Tim Robinson moved permanently to Maui to begin pursuing a new life journey
as an artist. Tim developed a passion for the digital aspect of art while helping Vicky convert her
watercolors to print.
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Cristy Thom
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Cristy Thom is the embodiment of contemporary art. She has been an artist her whole life; however,
she did not always produce art as we see it today. It was in 1993 that she realized becoming a painter
was the way for her to communicate with the world. The artist before you today has had a life time
of experiences that seem to permeate into oil paint images. A keen eye for design and color coupled
with serious life-lessons make for a visually compelling body of work. Cristy Thom’s life is only
relevant as an illustration of the possibilities for transcendence.
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Romeo Robert Tomei
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In over forty-five years of creative application, he has been a designer, director, consultant
in film, advertising and interior design with a private and corporate clientele. Through their
international firm, Tomei & Tomei Creative Consultants, Ltd. of Auckland, New Zealand, Romeo and
his wife Heather, were the major creative concept designers of the Auckland International Airport.
Presently, the Tomei's life and work on the island of Maui, in Hawaii. He maintains private studios
in Maui, New York City, and Naples Southwest Florida.
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Jennifer Umphress
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Jennifer was born and raised in California, and in 1991 after visiting Hawaii and falling in
love with its beauty it became her home. She began her career in glass in 2000 working and
apprenticing in a small studio retail shop in the islands. Continuing to grow as an artist
Jennifer expanded her knowledge by attending Sundance Art Center in Santa Cruz, California
(December 2002). Her work is constantly changing and evolving, but she still draws her biggest
influence from the Islands and Ocean that surrounded her for so long.
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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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