For Artist Reem Bassous, Memories Color Her Life and Work
In memorializing landscapes and experience, artist Reem Bassous isn’t afraid to settle into the shadows of memory and consciousness.
Arts
The 19th Century Painters that Captured Kīlauea’s Dramatic Eruptions
In the late 19th century, painters lured by the majesty of earth being born anew made journeys from near and far to Hawai‘i Island.
Paul Pfeiffer Bites Reality Back
Video artist Paul Pfeiffer deconstructs viewers’ relationships to media and forms of entertainment that saturate the human experience.
Kainoa Gruspe’s Comically Unpinnable Works
Beneath the artist’s bravura of humor lies a serious grasp of his craft.
Kamran Samimi’s Elemental Artworks Seek the Source
With his elementally-inspired pieces, Kamran Samimi explores time, form, and metaphysical truths.
In Maui, Jean-Michel Basquiat Found a Refuge From Fame
For a few sun-soaked summers on Maui, the rising star of the New York art world found refuge from his life in the public eye.
Through the Looking Glass with Photographer Phil Jung
The voyeuristic photographs of Phil Jung peer into the personal spaces of everyone from city dwellers to zoo animals.
The Stoked Sculptures of a Legendary Surf Magnate
Artist and surf magnate Herbie Fletcher has always found an outlet in turning high-performance surfing into artworks.
Finding Beauty in Maui’s Defunct Sugar Mills
For decades, Tom Sewell has found, filmed, and sculpted a hefty body of work. Much of it originated with Hawai‘i’s sugar mills.
A New Class of Creatives Goes Digital
Twenty years in the making, a neoteric hub for students stepping into a new frontier of digital media takes shape.
