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Cedar Street Galleries presents
“The Lawnboat Chronicles”
Works by Dorothy Faison

August 9, 2011 to September 5, 2011
The Lawnboat Chronicles Art Show 2011

The Second Floor at Cedar Street Galleries will be hosting “The Lawnboat Chronicles” show which will feature works by local artist Dorothy Faison. The show will run from August 9, 2011 to September 5, 2011.

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Dorothy Faison

Press Release

HONOLULU, Hawaii — July 19, 2011 — Imagine walking into an entire space filled with compelling yet imaginary historical images, artifacts, and narratives. Artist Dorothy Faison does just that in her current “Lawnboat” exhibition series.

“Hawaii artist Dorothy Faison creates an entire narrative with documentary and historical objects of the ʻlawnboatʼ,” says art critic Paul Janes-Brown.

Cedar Street Galleries presents Dorothy Faisonʼs follow-up art exhibition to the very successful Lawnboat Chronicles showcase at the Schaefer International Art Galleries on Maui (May through June 2011).

Ms. Faison has contrived an entire narrative relating to these imaginary lawnboats. Itʼs not a practical joke on her viewers, however, it does leave some scratching their heads in bewilderment. Itʼs a play on the “museum” space, how information is contextualized in todayʼs landscape to prevent questioning.

For the artist, Lawnboats are ships that carry grass lawns to foreign lands. These lawns replace native plants and create the environmentally degrading but ubiquitous lawn. This narrative alludes to the Hawaiian sandalwood trade of the early 19th Century, colonial value systems, communications, and the human desire to control of nature.

Again, Paul Janes-Brown, the Maui TV news art critic, stated this about the artistsʼ work in the Schaefer exhibit:

“When it comes to imagination there are few who can top Dorothy Faison. To discuss her criticism of lawns she has invented a pseudo-scientific exhibit that is so convincing one viewer had to be disabused of the historical accuracy of Faisonʼs presentation.”

The space will be converted into a pseudo historical “museum” with explanatory text, documentary, collected objects, and artwork on paper, oil on canvas and oil on copper, all illustrating aspects of the “lawnboat trade.” The Cedar Street Galleries exhibition will encompass the upstairs gallery.

There will be a Historical Society shop within Cedar Street Galleries with posters, postcards and mugs. The Historical Society also maintains a website at www.lawnboats.com.

About the Artist

Dorothy Faison is one of Hawaiiʼs foremost contemporary artists and has been recognized with individual fellowships by the Western States NEA, the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and by solo exhibitions at The Honolulu Academy of Arts (HAA) and The Contemporary Museum. Her work “Lawnboat descending staircase using poor navigational skills” is currently in the Artists of Hawaii show at HAA.

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Cedar Street Galleries
817 Cedar Street (near Rycroft and Sheridan Streets)
808.589.1580
www.CedarStreetGalleries.com

NOTE: Paul Janes-Brown is the art critic at MauiTVnews.com. His complete review can be found here: http://mauitvnews.com/blog/http:/mauitvnews.com/blog/2011/05/27/maui-tv-news-for-the-week-of-may-27-2011/ in the video segment Curtain Call: Allusions of Space.


Public Invited

Preview Reception
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM

817 Cedar Street, Honolulu, Hawaii


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