Pacific University is currently exhibiting new work by local artist Roy Venters displayed in a living room-type setting. Chuck Davis photo Antiques and furniture borrowed from Artmosphere Gallery and Ming's Chinese Antiques supplement the exhibition. From Artmosphere are 1950s chairs and lamps inspired by that period. Ming's loaned several antique benches and chests. The walls are hung with Venters' works, which are remnants of another era in themselves in that they are all made up of found objects, either objects from the dump or tree branches and trunks.
Venters is irreverent and witty, bringing a wonderful joie de vivre to the gallery rooms.
Further demonstrating that art is to be lived with, several of Venters' pieces are glass-topped tables, their bases made of gaily painted tree branches. One hopes that the young HPU students, whose tastes are at the formative stage, will be favorably influenced in opting to make art a part of their lives as they pass by the gallery daily on their way to and from classes. 1356 Kapi ' olani Blvd. Through Nov. 26 955-5250 Picking up on the opportunity to offer a venue to artists rejected by the annual Artists of Hawai ' i show at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Honolulu Art Gallery is now showing works by 29 of those artists. Of the 450 artists who submitted works to be judged for the academy show, only 92 made the final cut.