fine art | photography
Interested in learning more about my Wahi Pana project at Koko Crater Botanical Garden? Iʻll be participating in an Artist Panel on Monday, June 23, 2025 from 5-7pm at Kapiolani Park (near the old archery range). The Artist Panel will also feature the other “Phase 2” Wahi Pana artists: kekahi wahi and Koloikeao Anthony.
Check out the link below to learn more about the event:
Last month, I was one of 25 Native Hawaiian artists featured in Flux Magazine’s article looking at significant kanaka artists of the past 25 years.
Mahalo nui to Kristiana Kahaukawila for remembering our “Ka Holokū” series that Brandon Ng and I collaborated on back in 2011.
Read the full article at Flux Magazine here: https://fluxhawaii.com/hawaiian-artists-kanaka-maoli/
My most recent body of work “Hoʻi i ka Piko” is on show at Treehouse in SALT Kakaʻako and the exhibition dates got extended till 10/31/2024.
All photographs on display were hand printed on silver gelatin paper from black and white, 35mm film. As a darkroom photographer, I love working with my hands to produce these images, and while scans are lovely, these images are truly meant to be appreciated in person and viewed on paper.
See the show in person:
SALT Kaka’akao
675 Auahi Street, E3-215
Honolulu, HI 96813
Aloha All!
This past summer, my good friend Ashley Katamoto and I traveled around Europe for 3 weeks, eating all the food/getting food poisoning, riding horses/trains/cars/busses, and shooting dozens of rolls of film. When we came back home to Hawaiʻi, we found ourselves with all these amazing images from our trip and we knew we had to do something with them. We ended up selecting 17 images each to create diptychs related by time and location – each image in a diptych was taken in the same place and day as the other (some possibly taken with a few minutes/feet from the other).
The first half of these diptychs (“P.O.V.” featured images from the UK) were up at Kaimuki Library from August – October 2016, while the second half (“2nd P.O.V.” features Spain, Portugal, and the south of France) are currently on display at the same location until December 9, 2016.
Check out the review of “The Lab: Experiments in Photography” put on by the PAʻI Foundation as part of the Maoli Arts Month and curated by Healoha Johnston. Online version HERE or read the print version below:
Exciting things are happening! My newest body of work will be on display starting this week up at Mark’s Garage in Chinatown as part of the Maoli Arts Month. I’m so honored to have my name on the same flyer as these individuals, let alone sharing space with two other amazing photographers! Please come down to the opening reception this First Friday 5/6!
I’ve found myself gravitating towards printmaking a lot more this year, and submitted 2 of my new linocut prints into the 88th Annual Juried Exhibition for the heck of it – not really certain they’d get in or if I’d just thrown my submission money around all willy nilly.
Lo and behold! Both pieces got in! Check out the opening for the show tomorrow (February 24) at the Honolulu Museum of Art School. The exhibition was juried by Paul Mullowney and features a gift print by Don Ed Hardy.
Shoooots!
A new piece of mine – titled “Make” – is currently on display at Kit & Ace in Ala Moana. It will be up through the month of March and can be viewed anytime during store hours.
The artwork is a memento mori of sorts – 100 individual leaf “skeletons” were gathered to make 100 individual cyanotype photograms (photographic prints made without a camera), thus preserving a moment in each leaf’s phase of decomposition. Arrange in such a way to create the sense of movement, the leaves reject the perceived lifeless-ness of dead objects. The title itself is a play on two definitions of the word; in English, to “make” means to create or compose, while in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, “make” means to die or perish. Juxtaposing these two definitions brings to mind the cyclical nature of creation and destruction.
Aloha all! A fiber piece of mine was accepted into this year’s Fiber Hawaii show put on by the Hawaii Craftsmen. The opening was tonight and the show will be up until Nov 22! Stop by and visit the show!
My friends and former employers at the Honolulu Museum of Art wrote a lovely article about me and my sister-teacher Andrea Charuk while we taught with the See Art Make Art program up at the Spalding House location.
Please check out the amazing things the museum continues to do with art and art education.
Ualani Davis