November 4, 2011 - December 23, 2011
Andrew Rose Gallery
www.noreennaughton.com/Noreen_Naughto/Home.html
Naughton states her paintings are composed of four subjects: trees, light, ocean’s edge, and windows. All paintings are abstractions, suggesting other images. While light, color, movement,
and shape become the ostensible subject matter of each painting, they strive for an aesthetic sensation beyond representation. The tree paintings were created on site at Ho’omaluhia Botanical Garden where there are fascinating and complex intertwining hau, kukui and hala trees, among others. I experience the trees as intriguing abstractions of twisting lines, bright light, negative
space and hooked shapes.
Noreen Naughton earned her MFA in Painting in 1979 from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
She is a Professor Emeritus of Art at Kapi'olani Community College, University of Hawai'i, where
she taught drawing and painting, served as visual arts coordinator, and initiated the New Media Arts program.
Naughton states her paintings are composed of four subjects: trees, light, ocean’s edge, and windows. All paintings are abstractions, suggesting other images. While light, color, movement,
and shape become the ostensible subject matter of each painting, they strive for an aesthetic sensation beyond representation. The tree paintings were created on site at Ho’omaluhia Botanical Garden where there are fascinating and complex intertwining hau, kukui and hala trees, among others. I experience the trees as intriguing abstractions of twisting lines, bright light, negative
space and hooked shapes.
Noreen Naughton earned her MFA in Painting in 1979 from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
She is a Professor Emeritus of Art at Kapi'olani Community College, University of Hawai'i, where
she taught drawing and painting, served as visual arts coordinator, and initiated the New Media Arts program.
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