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Hiroki MORINOUE

Hiroki Morinoue was born in Holualoa, Hawaii in , where he still lives today.  He received his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in  As he refined his personal artistic vocabulary in the early s, Morinoue decided to further his studies in Japan.  From through he studied sumi brush painting and woodblock printing with a Masters in Japan, respectively Koh Ito Sensei and Takashi Okubo Sensei.  In Morinoue opened a gallery with his spouse, Setsuko Watanabe Morinoue named Studio 7 Fine Arts.  Hiroki Morinoue’s prints are colorful renditions of an abstracted vision of nature.  Water and sand play primary roles, but shells, abstracted horizons, and increasingly a reflection on our consumption’s influence on nature, and the Brazilian rainforest and its trees, are depicted in Morinoue’s color woodblocks.  His simple shapes are elegant, while his lines tend to be carved to lend his graphic works a painterly effect.

Hiroki Morinoue studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he received his BFA degree. Morinoue spent time in Japan studying with a Master woodblock printer. The skills he acquired in this intense pursuit are evident in the direct, elegant, and fluid woodcuts and monotypes Morinoue has made at Shark&#;s.

In all of Morinoue&#;s work there is a compelling sense of place&#;the ocean shoreline, lava flows and Japanese gardens. He is a patient observer of nature, its rhythms, cycles and patterns, and these observations become poetic images in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics and prints.

Morinoue’s latest woodcut is Brazilian Rainforest. Morinoue first observed the Brazilian rainforest in when the exhibition he designed, The Kona Coffee Story: Along the Hawai&#;i Belt Road, was shown in Sâo Paulo.

In this new print, the artist poetically honors the rainforest in Brazil. The Amazon is home to an estimated 16, tree species. This rainforest is the world’s largest, but in the last 40 years at least 20% of it has been destroyed.

Hiroki Morinoue has shown widely in the United States and Japan. He has completed several major public art commissions, including projects at the Honolulu Public Library, and the Hawaii Convention Center. Morinoue&#;s work is represented in the collections of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; The Honolulu Academy of Arts, The National Parks Collection, Maryland; Ueno No Mori Museum, Tokyo, and others.

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Artist Biography

Hiroki Morinoue studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he received his BFA. Later he spent time in Japan studying with a Master Woodblock Printer. The skills he acquired in this intense pursuit are evident in the direct, elegant and fluid woodcuts and monotypes Morinoue has made at Shark&#;s Ink.

In all of Morinoue&#;s work there is a compelling sense of place: the ocean shoreline, lava flows, and Japanese gardens. He is a patient observer of nature and its rhythms, utilizing this understanding to create poetic images in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramic, and print.

Hiroki Morinoue has shown widely in the United States and Japan. He has completed several major public art commissions, including projects at the Honolulu Public Library, and the Hawaii Convention Center.

Selected Collections: The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI; The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI; The National Parks Collection, Baltimore, MD; Ueno No Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan

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American painter (born )

Hiroki Morinoue (born , Japanese: ヒロキ モリノーエ) is an American visual artist, of Japanese descent. His artwork fuses western Impressionism with modern Japanese design. Morinoue lives in Holualoa, on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Early life and education

Morinoue was born in , in Kealakekua and raised near Holualoa, formerly a major coffee plantation town in the mountains above Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. Japanese workers were imported from Japan at the turn of the 20th century to Hawaii to work the plantations. Although the coffee plantations are gone, Holualoa remains a major producer and exporter of Kona coffee from a cooperative of private growers. In addition, a large artist colony has taken hold in the town itself.

Morinoue studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in Oakland, California, where he received his BFA degree in Later, while in Japan, Morinoue studied with a master sumi-e artist and a master of woodblock printing.

Works

It was Morinoue's seemingly abstract paintings of calm water on textured wood or woodblock prints that propelled him to prominence. The play of light on pebbles at the bottom of a creek or pond, bubbles, ripples, or the reflection on the surface of water are combined with a Japanese sense of balance and design in intense shades of aqua, black and blue creating art of refined, serene elegance. Subsequent works show a trend towards abstract art, experimentation in warmer palettes, rougher strokes, various subject matters and media such as ceramics and photography.

Hiroki Morinoue can be seen in several public and private collections in the USA (particularly in Hawaii) and Japan.

Collections

• Hawaii State Library, Hawaii
• Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Honolulu Council on Culture and the Arts, Ha