Artist Residency at the Honolulu Academy of Arts

Wow it's been so long since I've updated this blog. BUT I've got big news! Today I am starting my seven week long Artist in Residence at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. I will be there every weekend Saturday 10 am-4:30 pm and Sunday 1 pm -5:00pm. MY project will be a live painting performance with audience participation. I am really excited to be able to talk story with the residents of Honolulu and hopefully after sharing our stories can create something together.

While I am painting non stop, I'll also be filming the process. After the day or the weekend, I'll speed the film up so it'll be ten plus hours packed into five minutes, the canvas will appear to be animated with art.

The best part of this whole process is that I am asking everyone who comes in to help make the paintings. Everyone can be a collaborator. I feel that since it is so difficult to be an active professional artist, I want to share my opportunity with everyone. If you give me suggestions of what to paint or help me paint, I'll take your name down and add you into the final credits as a collaborator.



So please come down to the Academy and help me make some amazing art!

Water

Video Collage

This was actually completed a little while ago but I have been traveling a lot recently and forgot to post it. This video collage I made using footage I found on various cameras and computers. The music is my good friend Ky Fifer or Ginchy creator of Harebrain Media. The song is "1,000 Times" although I added a beginning that wasn't part of the original song.

Performance at Thirtyninehotel

May 23rd 2009 - copyright Boz Schurr

(Yarn (Part II)

This is the second part in a series. Please see the post, Yarn (Part I) for the first part in the series. This was performed at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's building 6. This pulling and interacting with the audience represents my connections to certain people from my past (they are in my blog header) and the yarn are the thoughts and feeling we have for each other. This is my version of a creation myth, I am taking something simple, the "thoughts and feels" and tangle them up with other people to create something new. Eventually in the future I would like to feature these five other people with their own yarn, wrapping each other at the same time. Check back for later films as the series continues.

Art Upstairs: Emerging Hawai'i Artists

I have work featured in a group show at the Honolulu Academy of Arts in May



(I'll post photos after tonight's opening!)

Art featured in 322 Review

I have recently had two pieces of work picked to be featured in the Inaugural Issue of the 322 Review which will be available online May 15th. My two pieces to be featured are:



"Dialogue"
Acrylic, Charcoal, Pen and Ink on Found Paper, 38" x 27"
2009


"This is What I Want"
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas 4' x 4'
2009

Please check them out at http://322review.org/
Art work is online! http://www.322review.org/mm_summer2009.html