Fred Roster
Honolulu, Hawai'i

Mouse Trap II
steel, wood
18 x 30 x 14.3 cm
2002



____Selected exhibitions

  • Commitment to Excellence, Academy Arts Center, Honolulu, 2002
  • Artists of Hawai‘i, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2002
  • Go Figure, Pegge Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, 2002
  • Enriched by Diversity: The Art of Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i State Art Museum, Honolulu, 2002
  • 75th Birthday Cake Exhibition, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2002
  • Contempo at Neiman Marcus, The Contemporary Museum, 2002
  • Artists/Hawai‘i, First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, 1996
  • All Beasts Great and Small, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, 1996
  • 2nd Annual Pacific Rim Sculpture Conference, Academy Arts Center, Honolulu, 1995
  • Observations from the River, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 1992

Fred Roster was born in Palo Alto, California, 1944. He holds a MFA from the University of Hawai‘i, 1970, and a MA, 1968, and a BA, 1967, from San Jose State University. Roster has received the Jean Charlot Award and the Elizabeth Moses Award. His work is in the collections of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu.

The Mouse Trap is from a series of political statements regarding absurdly expensive implements of mass destruction.