Press Release
July 1, 2008
PYGOYA GALLERY invites the public to attend its grand opening on July
31st , a Thursday, from 5 P.M. to 8 P.M. The gallery director is Dr.
Rodney Chang, formerly known as the Disco Dentist. Through an agreement
with The Art Board, Chang will establish Hawaii’s first gallery
showcasing contemporary DIGITAL as well as multi-media fine art.
Although access into the exhibits is through the main entrance of The
Art Board, Pygoya Gallery is established as a separate business entity.
The address is 1170 Nuuanu Avenue, No. 104, Honolulu, Hawaii. It is
across the street from Mark’s Garage Gallery and just footsteps mauka of
Pegge Hopper Gallery, also on Nuuanu Avenue.
Pygoya Gallery will be a new current of fresh air for the
Downtown-Chinatown lst Fridays gallery scene. The gallery will feature
digitally derived multi-media works of Chang as well as works by the
“Webists.” Chang co-founded the Webism Internet movement in 2003. The
mission stated is to create fine art specifically for the Internet in
order to develop a shared online global cyber-culture.
Selected as part of the gallery’s stable of artists include digital
artists Ingrid Kamerbeek of Germany, Parys St. Martin of Colorado, and
Ursula Freer of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Contacts –
Rodney Chang, D.D.S., Ph.D., Pygoya Gallery, (808) 845-6216
Moto Eguchi, The Art Board, (808) 351-1945.
