The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center will present a memorial tribute to Kauai-born artist Ray Yoshida (1930-2009), who passed away in Honolulu in January 2009.

Yoshida’s tribute will be on view March 12 through June 18, 2010.
Admission is free during normal banking hours.
The exhibition is organized and curated by James Jensen, the museum's deputy director for exhibitions and collections.
Yoshida was known for his mysteriously comical, semi-abstract paintings and collages and four decades of teaching art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is credited with influencing generations of prominent artists. He was among the most admired contributors to a tradition known as Chicago Imagism or the Chicago School-the post-war tradition of fantasy-based art making that emerged in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. Among his students were Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Gladys Nilsson, Karl Wirsum, and Christina Ramberg.
For more information about The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, visit www.tcmhi.org. Recorded exhibition info: 526-0232; reception desk: 526-1322.