Shannon Hickey Ceramic Art
Shannon has been teaching ceramics since 2004.
Shannon graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. While at UHH Shannon was a Studio Technician for both the UHH Art Department Print Studio and the Hawaii Community College Art Department Ceramics Studio. She received a tuition award and was honored with a Dean’s Exhibition Series in the Dean’s Offices of the College of Arts and Sciences at UHH.
Shannon has exhibited work in local and international exhibitions. Her work was shown in a 2004 traveling exhibition and her prints are included in Public Collections at the Amity Foundation in Woodbury, Connecticut and the China Academy of Art, Hanzhou, China.
Jacob Arthur Medina Paintings and Prints
Jacob graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Jacob has exhibited work in numerous local and international exhibitions. His work is in the Public Collection of the China Academy of Art, Hanzhou, China.
Recent Exhibitions Include:
- 2009 Schaefer Portrait Challenge, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Maui, HI and
- Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI
- 2009 EHCC Fall Arts Festival, Hilo, HI
- 2009 “Coffs” solo show, Wailoa Center, Hilo, HI
- 2009 Abstract Only, Wailoa Center, Hilo, HI
- 2009 Fifty-Fifty Collective, Wailoa Center, Hilo, HI
- 2007 Fifty-Fifty Surf Skate collective, Hilo Art Museum, Hilo, HI and Ong King, Chinatown, Honolulu, HI
- 2007 Hilo in our H’arts 4th Juried Competition, Wailoa Center, Hilo, HI
- 2007 Self-Portrait Exhibit, Wailoa Center, Hilo, HI
- 2006 Abstract Only, Wailoa Center, Hilo, HI
- 2006 Big Island Portrait Exhibition, East Hawai’I Cultural Center, Hilo, HI
- 2006 Honolulu Printmakers 78th Annual, Honolulu, HI
Nani Maloof Paintings and Prints
Nani Maloof was born and raised on the Big Island. She has been painting and drawing since childhood. Nani draws her inspiration from the island’s abundant beauty, putting memories of her favorite places to canvas. Nani graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Clayton Amemiya Anagama Wood-fired Pottery
Clayton earned a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies (1969) and a Master of Arts in History (1976) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He studied with Sensei Seisho Kuniyoshi in Yomitan, Okinawa throughout the 1970’s. He returned to Hawaii and worked to develop his own unique style reflecting his experience.
Clayton fires most of his work in a wood-fired Anagama Kiln at his home near Hilo. Each firing takes 4-5 days and consumes 3½ cords of wood. Firings are special events and Clayton is only able to produce a limited number of pieces each year.
Shea Peterson Paintings and Prints
Shea is an abstract artist born in 1973 in Pueblo, Colorado. Shea discovered art and music at a young age and developed his talent though high school, summer intensives, and college. He studied Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology, Kashmir Shavism, the non-dual Yoga Traditions, and Orthodox Daoism; all in depth. These life affirming spiritual traditions helped open up his painting to capture the non-linear, spiritual, mystical, mythical, and subtle energies of this wonderful realm Earth. Shea believes not in transcending, ascending, or graduating from this existence but he believes in the divine magic embedded in daily existence. His exotic, colorful, often childlike painting reflect this contemplative understanding. Living in tropical Hilo, Hawaii the last 8 years has added an enchanting quality to his work.
Shea uses a variety of techniques to enhance the images. These include foliage, collage, stencil, dripping, scraping, and many action-painting and graffiti influenced techniques. Acrylic is often the base primary medium. Spray paint, pastels, ink, oil, and sand are often added for texture and dramatic effect.
Shea Peterson has taken the influences of Picasso, Ernst, Klee, Miro, Tamayo, Pollock, and Lam and the non-dual esoteric and spiritual traditions of the East and developed a style uniquely his own. His work shows Cubist, Fauvist, Expressionist, and Abstract Expressionist influences at their best.
Shea has lived an eclectic life including providing Ayurveda Therapy, Consultation, exotic Herbal Tinctures, and Vedic Astrology Consultation.
Artist Statement:
“The modern artist… is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.” Pollock
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” Picasso
The work of the abstract artist is at its best an unveiling of the Mystery and at its worst an intellectual exercise. The talent of great work comes from surrendering to what we might call the artist instinct, the subconscious, collective super conscious and a higher Self. Great abstract art comes from the multiple combinations of these sources and creativity only passes through the intellect as a filter. Much of my work comes from a non-linear process, which involves discovering the direction of the piece while in process of painting it.
Education:
Da Yuan Circle Berkeley California 2002
Orthadox Daoism including the Dao de Ching and Zhou-yi
Jñanagni Kula / Trika Institute Berkeley California 1997-2002
Kashmir Shavism, Pranayama, Kriya Yoga, Meditation, Tantrik psychology, Tantrik Ritual, Mantra Vidya, and study of Classical Texts,
Ayurvedic Institute of Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM 1997-2000
Ayurvedic Therapy, Bodywork, Herbalism, Consultation and Vedic Astrology
Colorado Springs Academy of Therapeutic Massage, Colorado Springs, CO 1996
Adams State College, Alamosa, CO 1992-1993
Classical Guitar and Music Composition
University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, CO 1991-1992
Art and Music Composition
University of Fairbanks Summer Fine Art Intensives for Young Adults , Fairbanks Alaska
1988 and 1989 Drawing, Painting, Music Compositions
Exhibitions:
East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii (34th Annual Spring 2010 group show) 2 paintings
Colorado State Fair Fine Art Exhibit (2009 group exhibit) 4 paintings
East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii (33rd Annual Fall 2009 group show) 3 paintings
East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii (33rd Annual Spring 2009 group show) 1 painting
Kiawe Kitchen, Volcano, Hawaii ( Sept. Oct. Nov.2009 solo show) 14 paintings
Wailoa Center for Culture and Arts, Hilo, Hawaii(Spring 2008 group show) 1 painting
Aloha Luigi’s, Hilo, Hawaii (May-June 2008 solo show)
Joe Laceby Cyanotype
Joe Laceby graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He describes his artistic growth and chosen process:
“Born in the shadow of Tulsa OK, 1970. Farm boy by nature but grew up the king of dirt ball wars. My interest in art began early, very early. My father was the developer for the Tulsa police crime lab and I spent many a summers hiding out in that lab. I was given a tall stool to watch all of the processes but I was told to close my eyes when some of the final crime scene prints were washing…(I peeked). I remember the fascination that 7 year old had in a place that few children were allowed. My father’s darkroom fascinated me, not only in a visual sense; but it also imbedded within me a memory of the non-visual stimulants associated with a darkroom. The feeling of trusting darkness, the coolness of the constantly flowing water, and the smells that would creep around from the different chemicals. Many years later in a college photography class, this imbedded memory was awakened. It allowed me to bring back to the medium the playfulness of a child’s vision from which it was personally discovered. It’s from this that my prints say what they need to say without the complexities of the critically educated adult eye. The cyanotype process allows this to happen in the very nature of the final print. But like anyone true to their vision, the physical deconstruction and reorganization of the print is where the excitement lies for me. I’ll never claim to be a purist, only an artist. A maker of things.
Here is a basic explanation of what I am doing:
During the early years of photography, many techniques were tried to achieve some sort of clear visual image. As the next new process reached a higher level of clarity and ease of multiple reproductions, the previous method was abandoned. These abandoned methods came to be known as alternative methods. I work within one of these processes: The Cyanotype.
Cyanotype printing involves treating a surface with iron salts that reacts to UV light. A surface is coated by hand with the liquid mixture. A negative the same size as the final image is placed over it. This is set between marine plywood and plexi-glass with clamps. It is then brought out to expose in the sun. After the exposure, the paper is washed and allowed to dry. The resulting image is viewed as a black and white but with the black
being replaced with a Prussion Blue. The final print is then worked by hand with the application of whatever it seems to need; minerals such as Mica and Silver leaf or multiple ink washes with different pigments folded in.
The images I work with are those that I come in contact with during my daily living. The image is one that presents itself just out of the normal frame of vision. It makes me stop and wonder. Before I look too silly just standing there staring and wondering, I take a picture.”
- Honorable Mention 2010 Hawaii Photo Expo
- First Place Enthusiast 2009 Hawaii Photo Expo
