Featuring works from:
Fidalis Beuhler
Paul Cantanese
Kevin Diminyatz
John Goebel
Andrew Grabar
Monika Mann
Michael Marshall
Wendy Yothers
Na ka ʻĀina (by /of the land) is a collaborative show featuring our Hawaiʻi Natives who explored self-identity with land, lineage, and culture.
Delineating Queer (DQ_ed.2017) collective show including works from: Amber Aguirre, Tobias Brill, Chad States, Karol Radziszewski, Richard Renaldi, Gerald Lucena, Danez Smith, Mary Babcock, Steve Yee.
Why is anyone allowed to disqualify my identity?
Why can't I kiss the person I love in public?
Why was it okay to be Mahu in early Hawaiian society but not now?
Why are you dying to know "who's the man and who's the woman"?
Does it matter if it's nature or nurture?
We touch, taste, smell, hear, and see the world around us, assembling our notions of what is though our five senses. Sharing those impressions, we develop a social consensus of reality and orient around the surety of that consensus.
A valued function of the artist is to offer alternative interpretations of what is by modelling what-might-be. Those models present innovative ways of perceiving, thinking, and responding to our changing environments.
Idiosyncratic: an unusual way in which a particular person behaves or thinks.
Field: a particular branch of study or sphere of activity.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Our East Hawaii venue hosts a collection of works curated by Living Treasure of Hawaii, Hiroki Morinoue and Artistic director Andrzej Kramarz – invited artists from West Hawaii, appropriately exploring notions of personal space.
