Coming Together Over Isolation- Kanani Daley
Contemporary art is an evolving, responsive, visual essay of today, engaging the intuition and discerning perception of both the artist and the viewer. Diverse and pluralistic, art reflects a society and its relevant issues, a cultural dialogue of personal identity, community, and nationality.
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.
