BEING

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Jul 12

REPURPOSED WOOD, 4‘x5’7’, 2016

Black and white doesn’t produce gray. It exposes a figure that is both the victor and the victim, the predator and the prey.

Articulated with sharp edges against and cooperating with its more flexible volumes, the tension found in simultaneously inviting and repelling desire surfaces. Applying my own geometry on to a material that can endure it, I emerge from rigidity with an exploration of extremes that necessitates order ultimately.

Being has been displayed at the University of Hawaii Manoa, The Waikiki Park Hotel, as well as the The Garage.

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Somewhere among the chaos tht is 800 blocks of timber, artist NIcole Naone sees the forest for the trees. Her latest sculpture, Being, is her most audacious to date—cutting, shaping, piecing together a complex vision of disparate shapes and sizes to create a whole and discernable form, as if carving through the confusion toward a more tangible clarity.

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Artist Nicole Naone, a recent graduate of the University of Hawaii-Manoa’s fine art department, with one of her fiberglass sculptures.It’s hard to imagine a towering wooden horse described as voluptuous, but in the case of sculptor Nicole Naone’s horse, it is.

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