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Indepth Arts News:
"Crossings : Recent Works by Andrew Binkley"
2011-03-03 until 2011-06-24
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu at First Hawaiian Center
Honolulu, HI,
USA United States of America
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu is pleased to announce the exhibition of Andrew Binkley's latest body of artwork entitled 'Crossings'. Throughout Binkley’s work as an artist, he has utilized a variety of media and approaches to uncover and explore our notions of time and patterns of human behavior. In 'Crossings', Binkley brings into play the time-based media of photography and video to observe the seen and unseen traces between people on the streets below.
Through the use of an overhead perspective and layering multiple photographs and video of people passing by on their daily routines, Binkley works with the themes of intersecting or sharing paths, and integrating or transforming relationships, as well as the unknown or transient connections between people through time.
This exhibition will feature Binkley’s works during his time in Suzhou, China and Honolulu, Hawaii, USA where he documented the patterns of people’s movements within various times and locations throughout these two distant cities.
Coinciding with the exhibition will be the release of Binkley’s monographic book entitled Crossings. This publication is made possible through an award granted to Andrew Binkley by Carol McCusker PhD, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego through the support of Blurb.
About the Artist
Andrew Binkley is an American artist born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1979 and is currently based in Maui, Hawaii, USA. A former Buddhist monk, Binkley’s approach to his work is that of a practice of being awake to what the moment is, a practice of being mindful, open and responsive, and ultimately letting go of the notion of self. Binkley has participated in numerous international exhibitions including SURVIVAL 8 Art Review, Art Transparent Foundation, Wrocław, Poland (2010), If Not Now, When, Bishop Museum, Hawaii, USA (2010), Digital Art L.A., Downtown Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA (2009), 20 Going On 21, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2009), and Intrude: Art and Life 366, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China (2008). Binkley was the recipient of the 2009 Cynthia Eyre Award nominated by Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator of the New Museum, New York and presented by Honolulu Academy of Arts as well as receiving the 2010 Best of Show award by Carol McCusker PhD, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. His artworks and written articles have been featured in publications such as ZOOM Magazine including its cover for the Sept/Oct 2009 edition. His photographic works have also been in several books including Timeless Trilogy, Poems on the Road and Messages from Silence published by Pesalo Publications, Thailand. Binkley has presented lectures at Fudan University, Shanghai and The Schaefer International Gallery, Hawaii. His works may be found within the collections of Shanghai Zendai MoMA and Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
About The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
The Contemporary Museum presents changing exhibitions of the work of leading and emerging contemporary artists in five galleries at its Makiki Heights location as well as its First Hawaiian Center location. In November 1996, The Contemporary Museum opened a site in the corporate headquarters of First Hawaiian Bank, located in First Hawaiian Center in downtown Honolulu. Completely underwritten by First Hawaiian Bank, the venue provides a convenient downtown location to view art by resident artists, former residents of Hawaii, or artists who have created a body of work in the islands. Flanked by a dramatic art-glass wall consisting of 185 prisms, the galleries are located in the main banking hall and on the second floor of First Hawaiian Center.
The Contemporary Museum - Makiki Heights
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