HADLEY NUNES

HADLEY NUNES http://www.hadleynunes.com HADLEY NUNES Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:20:44 +0000 http://www.hadleynunes.com en Islands http://www.hadleynunes.com/Islands http://www.hadleynunes.com/following/hadleynunes.com/Islands Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:20:44 +0000 HADLEY NUNES 3972353 Located on the Eastern coast of Oahu, Mānana Island is a State Seabird Sanctuary and was once inhabited by rabbits that were introduced to the islands in the 1880's. Since that time it has been known as Rabbit Island. A visitor who came to my exhibition in New York called this first painting Croissant and the name stuck. <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3972353/HadleyNunes-050511 011.jpg" width="670" height="572" width_o="1000" height_o="854" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3972353/HadleyNunes-050511 011_o.jpg" data-mid="20767556" caption="Croissant oil on linen 59 x 69 in 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3972353/HadleyNunes-050511 008.jpg" width="670" height="557" width_o="1000" height_o="831" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3972353/HadleyNunes-050511 008_o.jpg" data-mid="20767585" caption="Vertical Landscape oil on canvas 59 1/2 x 72 in 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3972353/HadleyNunes-050511 015.jpg" width="670" height="878" width_o="763" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3972353/HadleyNunes-050511 015_o.jpg" data-mid="20767720" caption="Gauguin oil on canvas 75 x 57 in" border="0" align="left"/> Located on the Eastern coast of Oahu, Mānana Island is a State Seabird Sanctuary and was once inhabited by rabbits that were introduced to the islands in the... 1929 - 2010 Continued http://www.hadleynunes.com/1929-2010-Continued http://www.hadleynunes.com/following/hadleynunes.com/1929-2010-Continued Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:12:14 +0000 HADLEY NUNES 4972820 With a collection of clothing that was once stored in a closet larger than my living space in Brooklyn, I needed to find a way to let go of items that held such great sentimental value. I didn't want to store my grandmother's clothes in boxes for the rest of my life and that wasn't really an option anyway. I learned that letting go is an action that takes place over time, we describe it, advise people about it, read books on the subject, hear it repeated as something good we should do, but its truth lies in a succession of actions over time. When I was a girl I spent summers with my grandmother on the island of Saint Barthélemy where she had a home. Most of our time was spent fixing the house up for the high season. We waxed floors, sewed new cushion covers for the sofa, made new bed spreads, built tile tables for bedside and poolside drinks to rest on or books to sit unopened. We did chores, cooked and I accompanied the adults when they met with friends in the evenings for discussion and drinks. I remember afternoons hanging the laundry to dry, the smell and cool feeling of the wet linens under the hot Caribbean sun. The white paint brought the past into present and the clothing became a part of my story. It was sad and shocking at times when I covered precious silk and sequins in the while acrylic paint from the hardware store, but the items became more beautiful as my life and theirs played out together. The items were hung on several clothes lines in a bright studio space in Manhattan, I opened the windows and let the cold winter air rush in. No documentation of this installation exists. <img src="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/4972820/HadleyNunes-050511 034.jpg" width="623" height="1000" width_o="623" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/4972820/HadleyNunes-050511 034_o.jpg" data-mid="26625723" caption="The White Sixties / Summer Gown acrylic paint on dress 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/4972820/HadleyNunes-050511 036.jpg" width="670" height="769" width_o="871" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/4972820/HadleyNunes-050511 036_o.jpg" data-mid="26625731" caption="Diamond Buttons / Evening Jacket acrylic paint on dinner jacket 2011" border="0" align="left"/> With a collection of clothing that was once stored in a closet larger than my living space in Brooklyn, I needed to find a way to let go of items that held such... Palace Project http://www.hadleynunes.com/Palace-Project http://www.hadleynunes.com/following/hadleynunes.com/Palace-Project Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:00:14 +0000 HADLEY NUNES 3971249 ‘Iolani Palace is the former residence of King Kalākaua who designed and built it in 1882. After the Hawaiian kingdom was overthrown just eleven years later during his sister Queen Lili‘uokalani's reign, a provisional government seized power, moved into the Palace and auctioned most of its contents keeping only what they could use for themselves. Later becoming a capitol building, the Palace slowly deteriorated until government business was relocated and The Friends of ‘Iolani Palace established its mission to restore the original condition. An effort that requires ongoing research, the Palace continues to expand its holdings and honor the vision of the King. A historic landmark that is continually taking shape fascinated me and inspired a project within the Palace archives. Working closely with the curatorial staff to ensure the safety of the artifacts, I worked for five months within a small studio in the Palace attic creating paintings and combining objects in still life that would have otherwise never interacted. Many stories were discovered in the process and many new ones were created. The greatest discovery was that the life of these objects and the story of the Palace continue to take shape and everyone who takes time to visit the site and engage with it adds to its life and meaning today. <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2571.JPG" width="670" height="555" width_o="2048" height_o="1695" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2571_o.JPG" data-mid="20761691" caption="The Discussion acrylic on canvas 36 x 40 in 2012" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2578.JPG" width="670" height="532" width_o="2048" height_o="1626" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2578_o.JPG" data-mid="20761425" caption="Discussion 2 acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 in 2012" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2641.JPG" width="670" height="434" width_o="2048" height_o="1328" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2641_o.JPG" data-mid="20761580" caption="The King's Hats, Ruby Slippers acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 in 2012" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2642.JPG" width="670" height="435" width_o="2048" height_o="1330" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2642_o.JPG" data-mid="20761857" caption="Gentlemen acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 in 2012" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2646.JPG" width="670" height="443" width_o="2048" height_o="1355" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2646_o.JPG" data-mid="20761881" caption="The Queen's Bowl acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 in 2012" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2648.JPG" width="670" height="439" width_o="2048" height_o="1342" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3971249/IMG_2648_o.JPG" data-mid="20761944" caption="Negotiation acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 in 2012" border="0" align="left"/> ‘Iolani Palace is the former residence of King Kalākaua who designed and built it in 1882. After the Hawaiian kingdom was overthrown just eleven years later... 1929 - 2010 http://www.hadleynunes.com/1929-2010 http://www.hadleynunes.com/following/hadleynunes.com/1929-2010 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:20:24 +0000 HADLEY NUNES 3544644 In 2010 my grandmother passed. She was a reporter for the Washington Post and covered the First Ladies from Lady Bird to Hillary Clinton. When I was little I loved to sneak into her closet where all here beautiful clothing and collection of accessories and shoes were stored. Her life traveling with dignitaries meant that she had to dress and carry herself with elegance. I have an image in my mind of her as a young girl in the back of a station wagon driving down some dusty road with her parents in the front seat in search of the next town to call home and find the contruction work my great grandfather did to support the family during the depression. In the last days of her life the many worlds she passed through during her lifetime came together in my mind and I understood her better than I had ever understood anyone else before. Some months after her death I stumbled upon a screen in the Japanese section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and painted on it were colorful silk kimono hung and folded throughout an otherwise empty scene. The title of this painted screen was Whose Clothes? I came back to the studio and made my own version, building a still life with a japanese screen and my grandmother's clothing. <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544644/HadleyNunes-050511 022.jpg" width="670" height="572" width_o="1000" height_o="854" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544644/HadleyNunes-050511 022_o.jpg" data-mid="18624169" caption="Whose Clothes? oil on linen 47 x 55 in 2011" border="0" align="left"/> In 2010 my grandmother passed. She was a reporter for the Washington Post and covered the First Ladies from Lady Bird to Hillary Clinton. When I was little I loved... In the Open Air http://www.hadleynunes.com/In-the-Open-Air http://www.hadleynunes.com/following/hadleynunes.com/In-the-Open-Air Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:18:44 +0000 HADLEY NUNES 3544496 After working in nature I return to the studio with new material including colors and images from my observations. Spending time at a site, I come to know it intimately and become a part of it. Whenever I come back to visit or paint, I feel acknowledged by the land. In this way I show my respect through knowing a place and understanding its rhythms. These images were made in tandem with a painting expedition in Volcanoes National Park on the Island of Hawai‘i in 2011. Paintings from historic sites on Oahu are also included. At times I interact with the sites through movement. Locations: Kilauea Iki, Volcanoes National Park; Kona Studio, Island of Hawai'i; Kaniakapupu, Oahu; Kualoa Ranch, Oahu <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2624.JPG" width="670" height="521" width_o="2048" height_o="1593" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2624_o.JPG" data-mid="20766387" caption="Volcano acrylic on canvas 20 x 30 in 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/Hadley_sequence_05.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="670" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/Hadley_sequence_05_o.jpg" data-mid="18323012" caption="Volcano Drawings photo Klea Mckenna 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/Hadley_sequence_14.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="670" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/Hadley_sequence_14_o.jpg" data-mid="20766455" caption="Kona Studio photo Klea Mckenna 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2620.JPG" width="670" height="512" width_o="2048" height_o="1565" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2620_o.JPG" data-mid="20767065" caption="Volcano 2 acrylic on canvas 20 x 30 in 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/Hadley_sequence_01.jpg" width="670" height="503" width_o="920" height_o="690" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/Hadley_sequence_01_o.jpg" data-mid="20766093" caption="Kilauea Iki, Volcanoes National Park photo Klea Mckenna 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2622.JPG" width="670" height="516" width_o="2048" height_o="1576" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2622_o.JPG" data-mid="20767046" caption="Volcano 3 acrylic on canvas 20 x 30 in 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2575.JPG" width="670" height="518" width_o="2048" height_o="1584" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2575_o.JPG" data-mid="20765919" caption="Summer Palace acrylic on canvas 36 x 40 in 2012" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/hadleynunes_08.jpg" width="670" height="419" width_o="1680" height_o="1050" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/hadleynunes_08_o.jpg" data-mid="20766814" caption="Hadley, Kaniakapupu photo Marta Czajkowska 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2631.JPG" width="670" height="529" width_o="2048" height_o="1618" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2631_o.JPG" data-mid="20766273" caption="Sugar Mill acrylic on canvas 18 x 24 in 2012" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2634.JPG" width="670" height="841" width_o="1829" height_o="2296" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2634_o.JPG" data-mid="20767296" caption="Sugar Mill 2 acrylic on canvas 18 x 24 2012" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2611.jpg" width="670" height="867" width_o="1813" height_o="2346" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544496/IMG_2611_o.jpg" data-mid="20767148" caption="Banana Leaf acrylic on canvas 18 x 14 in 2011" border="0" align="left"/> After working in nature I return to the studio with new material including colors and images from my observations. Spending time at a site, I come to know it... Portraits http://www.hadleynunes.com/Portraits http://www.hadleynunes.com/following/hadleynunes.com/Portraits Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:11:08 +0000 HADLEY NUNES 3544383 These early enigmatic works are part of the William Louis-Dreyfus Collection in Katonah, New York. At times I thought I would never complete them because they underwent so many incarnations. The spirit behind them comes into projects that now thread a conceptual framework throughout the development of a painting. The puzzling nature of these portraits reminds me to remain in proximity to chaos. <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544383/HadleyNunes-050511 005.jpg" width="670" height="774" width_o="866" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544383/HadleyNunes-050511 005_o.jpg" data-mid="18624892" caption="Empress oil on canvas 78 x 68 in 2011" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544383/HadleyNunes-050511 025.jpg" width="670" height="649" width_o="1000" height_o="969" src_o="http://payload62.cargocollective.com/1/7/245563/3544383/HadleyNunes-050511 025_o.jpg" data-mid="18625262" caption="1 + 1 = 3 oil on canvas 54 x 56 in 2011" border="0" align="left"/> These early enigmatic works are part of the William Louis-Dreyfus Collection in Katonah, New York. At times I thought I would never complete them because they...