Iwalani Kaluhiokalani
Rhythm of Earthly Delights, oil on canvas, 48in x 72 inches (diptych), 2020
Artist Bio
Iwalani Kaluhiokalani is an American painter whose work centers movement in both subject matter and process. She uses movement and hyper-real color to explore ideas of connected space and history, heritage and geography. Deriving cut outs from found photos and film stills replete with imagery related to dance and Utopia she collages together positive and negative groupings of silhouettes and paints from them in a layered printmaking-like fashion. The process embellishes surfaces with rhythmic dialogues and patterning by rapidly repeating similar forms at various intervals and sizes. There is ambiguity in identity and repeated phrasings of groupings collectively play off ideas of the 'Idee Fixe' or framings as in a 'Mise en Abyme'. These tropes mirror repetition of thoughts or ideas which are meta. Implied bodies abound and locate themselves in imagined landscapes. These terrains perform like choreography with phrasings of shape and color simultaneously recording and transmitting the artist’s movements across a surface in a vast multi-colored living world.
Twilight Stories and Stories and Stories 2021, oil on canvas, 20in x 24in
Clearings and Passages 2021, oil on canvas, 20in x 24in
Citrine Ravine 2022, oil on canvas, 36in x 48in
The Paradise Ritual 2020, oil on canvas, 36in x 48in
I Hear the Water Dreaming 2020, oil on canvas, 48in x 72in (diptych)
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2020 UNBOUND, Gallery 1832 at Lab Central and Pfizer Building, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2020 M A G I C, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2018 I See a Landscape In You, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2016 I Felt Your Presence, Brickbottom Studios, Somerville, MA
2016 GATHERINGS, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions
2021 FPAC Annual Members Show, FPAC Gallery, 300 Summer St, Boston, MA
2021 Women in Abstraction, curated by Destiny Palmer, New Art Center, Newton, MA
2020 Leaps of Imagination, curated by art_works, Artfare app (digital show)
2020 SIZZLE, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Songs of Innocence, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2020 Hello World (TransCultural Exchange), Dorchester Art Project, Boston, MA
2020 Modern Love, Assemblage Gallery, 70a Sleeper St, Boston, MA
2019 Marking A Decade, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2019 THEN and NOW, FPAC Gallery, 70a Sleeper St, Boston, MA
2019 Human Gestures OCTOBER, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2019 40, FPAC Gallery, 300 Summer St, Boston, MA
2019 WET!, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 Human Gestures MAY, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2018 Galatea NOW, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2018 Human Gestures SEPTEMBER, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2018 Human Gestures MAY, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2018 GIMME SHELTER, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2017 Fresh Forward, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2017 Members Exhibition, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2017 October Alcove, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2017 UNVEILED Hallspace Drawing Project, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Makers Love Company, Island Copper Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
2017 Bodies In Motion, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA
2017 TIME, Brickbottom Studios, Somerville, MA
2017 Myth and Magic, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2017 Art OFF the Wall, Brookline Center for the Arts, Brookline MA
2017 March Alcove, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2016 Easy Acquisitions, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2016 Small Works Show, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2016 May Alcove, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2016 ONE NIGHT ONLY, Wareham St., Boston, MA
2016 Fun A Day Boston, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2015 Small(er) Works and Other Offerings, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2015 November Alcove, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2015 Hallspace Drawing Project, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 ReSearch, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2014 Hallspace Drawing Project, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 CRFT SHW, Vineyard Haven, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2010 Welcome to My House, MyHouse Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Recollect, Repeat, Retrieve then Reapply, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI
2002 Two-Person Show, Art Market Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
Awards/Residencies
2021 ACTivate Residency, Lead Artist, multi-disciplinary site specific installation of paintings dance and sound, Boston Center for the Arts: Cyclorama Building, Boston MA
2021 The Denis Diderot Artist-in-Residence Award, Château D' Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France
2003 Graduation with Distinction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2003 Departmental Honors, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2002 Lawrence Kupferman Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2001 Lawrence Kupferman Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston,