More than Meets the Eye - Artist as Collector

Honolulu based artist, Gaye Chan is this week's guest blogger for the Artist as Collector Series.

Charles Cohan
from the series PEAKS (2006)
Screen print on paper
30" x 22.5"
©charlescohan

I got this print by trade. Both Charlie and I often use images made by official sources as inspiration. PEAKS (his) from topographical maps and FRASS (mine) from google map. 

PEAKS is one of my favorite projects by Charlie. The images are so spare that they are barely there. I am attracted to work where the artist's confidence allows them to look like they did very little, regardless of the actual work that went into crafting the work.

Gaye Chan is a conceptual artist based in Honolulu. Her recent work often ruminates on how cartography and photography simultaneously offer and occlude information. She is currently a professor and the Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai'i.

Smell of Plumeria with Red Dirt

These kids have grown. The Waialua Sugar Mill is now an industrial park.  I took hundreds of black and white slides in a photography class that I took with Gaye Chan at the University of Hawaii while a grad student.

Keiki, Mt. Kaala & Clouds
©2012NanciHersh

 Here is one of many shots I took of my neighborhood kids, lined up with the majestic Waiane Mountain Range and  clouds in the distance in this double exposure print.  I can smell the plumeria... and the red dirt.