Past Exhibitions : 2007

January 12 – February 24, 2007
Robert Rauschenberg (read more)

The Gallery is pleased to welcome back Robert Rauschenberg. Considered to be the most influential and significant visual artist of the day Rauschenberg’s work has challenged our perceptions for decades.  This exhibit of recent work utilizes a process that is highly technical and incorporates computerized photography and a dye transfer process developed by Rauschenberg.

March 16 – April 14, 2007
It’s all About the Figure

On loan from a private collection, this exhibit features the work of more than 30 artists working throughout the United Sates as well as internationally.  The exhibit will look at how traditional figurative work is being handled by these contemporary artists.

April 19 – May 4, 2007
Annual Student Exhibit  

The annual student exhibit features painting, drawing, design, photography and ceramics created during the academic year.  Awards in each category are sponsored by the Faculty of Edison College, Richard and Julia Rush and the Docents of the Gallery.    

June 1 - June 30, 2007
The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition

This traveling exhibition features over eighty small sculptures by artists from around the world. Central to the exhibition's concept is the challenge of creating works on a small scale, while maintaining integrity and control of sculptural elements. By using the format of a shoebox, artists show how they address the challenge of scale.  The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition is organized by the University of Hawaii Art Gallery and supported in part by a grant from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.   This triennial has attracted a large number of well-known artists from Hawaii, the U.S. mainland, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, Norway, The Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

July 12 - August 15, 2007
Arts for ACT (View Photos)

The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery is pleased to sponsor this annual favorite that features the artwork of over 100 local, national and international artists.  All of the work exhibited has been donated to ACT, Inc and will be auctioned at a gala event in August, with all proceeds benefiting the programs of ACT, Inc.  Past preview exhibits have included work by internationally known artists such as Rauschenberg, Pottorf and Rosenquist.

September 7 – October 20, 2007
Jane Calvin: Discontinuum 

Photographer Jane Calvin creates images that weave layers of possible meaning into enigmatic narratives that examine the reality of love, desire, gender, sexuality, childhood and mystery in contemporary life.  Calvin’s darkly seductive images are produced by photographing room-sized assemblages of found objects and projections.

November 2 – December 8, 2007
Mark Messersmith: A Southern Landscape 

“The Southern landscape I paint is, at least for awhile, still out there somewhere, somewhere just beyond the urban sprawl, our shopping malls, and trailer parks. It is a land still inhabited by powerful birds, vigilant panthers, wary gators, black water swamps, old Cypress trees, back road citrus stands, and careening logging trucks ….”
– Mark Messersmith