In the Makiki Heights Gallery

For reservations or information, please call TCM at (808) 526-1322.

Special Offers:

TCM Community Day - Third Thursdays are FREE!
Reduced admission fee during Hockney Gallery temporary closure for maintenance - Admission fee is reduced to $5 during this period.
Military Family Outreach: Free entry for Active Duty, Retired, and Reserve military members and their families with military ID. This program is sponsored in part by Boutiki. Donations in support of this program are gratefully appreciated.

Ongoing Programs:

Docent Tours -
1:30 daily, except Monday
Join our docents Tuesday - Sunday for a lively discussion about works on view in the galleries .  For Reservations, please call: 237-5217; or email education@tcmhi.org

Expression Sessions / Art Classes for Kids / 1^st Saturday of each month (except July)
10:30am-12noon. For children ages 5-12.  Working in a variety of media, teaching artists conduct workshops inspired by the current exhibition. Parents are encouraged to participate. $7 member / $12 non-member. Reservations required; call (808) 237-5230. or email education@tcmhi.org.

June 25th – August 29, 2010

The Contemporary Museum - Makiki Heights proudly announces the opening of a new exhibition on June 25, 2010, Finding Latitude: The Work of Allyn Bromley. This exhibition presents the first survey of the work of well-known Hawai‘i artist Allyn Bromley, spanning four decades of her career from early intaglio prints of the 1970s and large-scale screenprints of the 1980s, to more recent works combining screenprinting with mixed media techniques and installations completed this year.

Bromley, a professor who headed the print-making program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1983 to her retirement in 2000, is described by John Zuern in his catalogue essay to be “a master screenprinter [who] works with an exacting medium, relying on a defined set of tools and a painstaking step-by-step process to realize her vision.” Bromley has always pushed limits and challenged traditions in her art, which has allowed her to integrate other media into her artistic practice such as paint, lead foil, gold and silverleaf, collaged elements of plastic modeling clay and found wood, and even torn and cut up fragments of her own prints.

Bromley’s earlier works were often a response to the color and light of the environment and feature complex overlays of imagery, rich textures and colors. Over time, she felt a need to address social and environmental change in her work. In the early 1980s she did a body of work with the theme Trouble in Paradise in which she comments on the destruction of the beauty of Hawai‘i through overdevelopment and disregard for the natural habitat.

In the past decade, Bromley has been interested in themes of aging and mortality, and her works focus on the fragility of the human body through stark images of figures alone or in couples, heavily hand-worked with paint and other media. Bromley has also ventured into making sculptures out of her recycled earlier prints, including three striking “mummies” and the installation What Color is Invisible that is being shown for the first time in this exhibition. Still, she hasn’t lost her appreciation and love for the beauty of Hawai‘i, as evidenced in another new work, Green Piece, an elaborate construction cascading down and projecting from the wall.

Green Piece, 2009-2010
Color screenprinting on recycled screenprints
Dimensions variable
Photo: Brad Goda