"Vintage Vignettes: Maui artists with a presence"
In 2007 the Maui Arts and Cultural Center asked me to participate in an exhibition “Vintage Vignettes: Maui artists with a presence”. A group invitational exhibition honoring some of Maui’s favorite active and innovative leaders in the Arts (all over 60) “35 mini retrospectives.”
For “early work” I exhibited the earliest work I could locate. It was a “60 second rapid collage”, a piece from 1962, which I presented in a special peep show illuminated box attached to the rear of a gallery wall. The collage was viewed from a quarter-sized whole in the wall.
My “middle career work” was a re-creation of an Art Maui installation “Dr. Saito’s Office.” For this piece I got permission from gallery director Darrell Orwig to cut a door sized hole in the gallery brick wall and install a functioning door which led to two rooms created out of storage space. The spaces became the offices of the infamous Dr.Edward Saito, an early Maui doctor who “treated young women” with a solar ray apparatus. The first room contained controversial old photos of his patients, his actual files, his old Underwood typewriter and the Solar Ray Apparatus itself. The second room was a recreation of the doctor’s inner treatment room complete with a mannequin wearing only thin nylon panties and socks along with high heel shoes. The exhibit was the source of much discussion; many people attacked me for acknowledging the doctor and his questionable practices.
The “current career work” I chose was a small, mounted, three flat radius screen installation of my popular 2006 one-man show, “Enigma Of The Mill ”.
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