Maui Fine Art and Photography
EXHIBITIONS
VINTAGE VIGNETTES
In 2007, the Maui Arts and Cultural Center asked Tom to participate in an exhibition called “Vintage Vignettes: Maui artists with a presence.” The show was a group invitational exhibition honoring some of Maui’s favorite active and innovative leaders in the Arts, all over 60, in 35" mini retrospectives.
For “Early Work” he showcased the earliest work he could locate. It was a 60-second rapid collage, a piece from 1962. He situated the images in a special, illuminated "peep show box" attached to the rear of a gallery wall. The collage was viewed from a quarter-sized whole in the wall.
Tom's “Middle Career Work” was a re-creation of an Art Maui installation: “Dr. Saito’s Office.” For this piece he obtained permission from Gallery Director Darrell Orwig to cut a door-sized hole in the gallery's brick wall. In its place he installed a functioning door that led to two rooms created out of storage space. The spaces became the offices of the infamous Dr.Edward Saito, an early Maui doctor who “treated young women” with a solar ray apparatus. The first room contained controversial old photos of his patients, his actual files, his old Underwood typewriter and the Solar Ray Apparatus itself. The second room was a recreation of the doctor’s inner treatment room complete with a mannequin wearing only thin nylon panties and socks along with high heel shoes. The exhibit was the source of much discussion; many people attacked Tom for acknowledging the doctor and his questionable practices.
Tom's choice submission for “Current Career Work” was a small, mounted, three-flat radius screen installation of his popular 2006 one-man show, "Enigma of the Mill."
