WAIMEA — The Isaacs Art Center at Hawaii Preparatory Academy and the Hawaii Wood Guild have announced the 39th Invitational Masters Show is running through Friday, Feb. 28, with extended viewing possible through March.
All items in the show are available for purchase. The exhibit is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays, with appointments welcomed.
Isaacs Art Center has hosted the Hawaii Wood Guild’s annual Invitational Masters Show since 2009.
This year’s exhibition includes pieces by noted island artisans Tai Lake, Michael Felig, David Gomes, Michael Patrick Smith, Greg Pontius, David and Doni Reisland, Scott Hare, Paul Schürch, Mats Fogelvik, Alex Franceschini, Nicole Gomes, Scott Zuziak, Duane Millers Jr., Marcus Castaing, Tom O’Connor, John Mydock, Robert Woodward, Kelly Dunn, Piergiorgio (Peter) Barbarich, Jimmy Wray, Llosh Winne and Leslie Pedersen.
The exhibition features turned and carved bowls, platters, demi-lune tables, and furniture accented with intricate designs in marquetry, pyrography, and careful bookmatching of beautiful wood.
Locally sourced curly koa, mango, milo and pheasant wood, along with western red cedar, mahogany, Norfolk and Cook pines are among the woods highlighted.
“We are looking forward to another extraordinary Hawaii Wood Guild show,” Mollie Hustace, the Isaacs Art Center director, said in a press release. “We are thrilled to have so many noted artists participating with 60 exquisite works on display, and we invite everyone to enjoy this spectacular exhibit.”
Isaacs Art Center, 65-1268 Kawaihae Road, features some of the finest Hawaiian and Asian art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The gallery works for sale may also be viewed by visiting isaacsartcenter.hpa.edu/.
Ongoing exhibitions also are featured on the Gallery’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
Proceeds from gallery artwork have supported the HPA Financial Aid program since its opening in 2004. For more information, contact the gallery at (808) 885-5884.
Founded in 1949, Hawaii Preparatory Academy is a co-educational, college-preparatory, day and boarding school that serves kindergarten through 12th-grade, plus a postgraduate year.