PO‘IPU — Kaua‘i-based fine art photographer Aaron Feinberg celebrated the opening of his second aFeinberg Gallery on Friday night at Kukui‘ula Village in Po‘ipu. “It’s one of the few places on the island that is conducive to nurturing this culture
PO‘IPU — Kaua‘i-based fine art photographer Aaron Feinberg celebrated the opening of his second aFeinberg Gallery on Friday night at Kukui‘ula Village in Po‘ipu.
“It’s one of the few places on the island that is conducive to nurturing this culture and in a way that I want to be seen and appreciated,” Feinberg said.
His 914-square-foot gallery at Kukui‘ula is more than four times larger than his Hanalei location, making it possible to show more of his work and in larger formats than ever before.
“Some are 10 feet wide,” Feinberg said. “I didn’t have the space before. The Hanalei gallery is only 200 square feet. Now I can release images and sizes never released before.”
He said his art form is “fine art landscape, but I blend my own artistic representation of the world.”
Gracing the entrance of his new gallery is “Kaboom!” — an image of two waves colliding — that won him honors in 2009 as American Photo Magazine’s Nature Photo of the Year, Popular Photography Magazine’s winner of “Through Your Lens,” and National Geographic’s Photo of the Month in August 2010.
Feinberg had a soft opening of the gallery on Monday, followed by a grand opening celebration on Friday that included live music, dancing, warm aloha hugs, pupu and fine art. It drew an estimated crowd of 150 and overflowed into neighboring shops like Tommy Bahama.
Although Feinberg’s work has the color, vibrancy, clarity and scale of medium format photography, he said his work is created with a 35 mm camera and full-frame photos.
For more information about Aaron Feinberg and his work, visit www.afeinbergphotography.com or stop by the aFeinberg Gallery in Kukui‘ula or his Hanalei location at 5-5190 Kuhio Hwy, behind Na Pali Properties and Kalypsos. His work may also be at the Westin Resort in Princeville, Hanapepe Art Night, Second Saturday in Hanalei.
• Vanessa Van Voorhis, staff writer, can be reached at 245-3681, ext. 251, or by emailing vvanvoorhis@thegardenisland.com.
