Ki i no Hawaii, a Solo Show of Work by Elaine Mayes, Opens at the Roxbury Arts Center

ROXBURY — Ki i ‘no Hawai’i, a solo show of work by Elaine Mayes, opens at the Roxbury Arts Center on January 25th with an Artist Reception at 3:00p. The Roxbury Arts Center is located at 5025 Vega Mountain Road in Roxbury, and the Artists Reception is free and open to all. The exhibit is open through March 22. For complete details, visit roxburyartsgroup.org. 

In 1991 Mayes received a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph in Hawaii, and with an Atherton Foundation grant (2003) published this work in a limited edition book titled "Ki'i No Hawai'i" in 2009.  Mayes' Hawaii photographs were exhibited at the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House (formerly known as The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu) in 2003.

Elaine Mayes has been an active visual artist since 1960. A main focus and emphasis for her work has been investigations of ‘seeing’ and documentary forms in photography. This interest led to a number of projects and seeking out various close at hand situations in the world as subject material for her photographs.

Elaine majored in painting and art history at Stanford University and then studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with John Collier, Jr. Paul Hassel, Minor White, Nathan Oliviera and Richard Diebenkorn. Between 1961 and 1968 she was an independent photojournalist working in San Francisco for magazines and graphic designers. During 1967 and 1968 she was a rock and roll photographer and photographed the ‘Summer of Love’ and scene in the Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco. One of her assignments was to photograph the Monterey Pop Festival. This work was published in her book called, “It Happened In Monterey.”

Elaine taught photography for thirty five years, beginning at the University of Minnesota in 1968. Then she taught at Hampshire College from 1971 to 1981, at Bard College during 1982 and 1983, and at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts from 1983 until 2001. Elaine was Chair of the Tisch Photography Department from 1997 until her retirement from teaching. Currently she is Professor Emeritus and is living in the Catskill Mountains of New York actively continuing her work.

Elaine is affiliated with Getty Images, Joseph Bellows Gallery, Morrison Hotel Galleries, and Liberal Arts Roxbury.

This exhibit is generously sponsored by Roxbury Wine & Spirits. All programs offered by the Roxbury Arts Group are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the NYS Legislature, the A. Lindsay & Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Robinson Broadhurst Foundation, the Tianaderrah Foundation, the Community Foundation for South Central New York, the Delaware National Bank of Delhi, and by the generosity of business sponsors and individual donors like you.