Ten scientists from Bishop Museum have partnered with ten members of the Honolulu Printmakers to share scientific processes and insights into their respective practices. This collaboration has resulted in the artists’ visual interpretations of the scientists’ research work. The scientists, in turn, have created an explanatory scientific poster to accompany the artwork. With a variety of printmaking techniques and diverse fields of science, each partnership explored the relationship and met the challenge in different ways.

 

Science and art are often considered to be opposites. With this show we cross that artificial divide and make connections between the two disciplines. The participating artists and scientists have explored ways to collaborate: listening, observing, learning, experimenting, and discovering.

 

When people exchange ideas and methods across fields, they tend to forge creative, innovative solutions and ways to work together on complex challenges. Cross-disciplinary collaboration can result in both new ideas and ways to see.

 

In this installation, you will encounter masterful one-of-a-kind prints inspired by each printmaker’s paired scientist’s area of specialty, including prints of specimens from Bishop Museum’s Natural Sciences collection.