Craft in America presents Marques Hanalei Marzan, a Honolulu-based visual artist of Native Hawaiian, Japanese, and Filipino descent. Marzan’s work is reflective of his upbringing in Hawai‘i and his travels throughout the Pacific and world, engaging with indigenous communities and responding to their cultural approaches of integrating natural fibers into daily life. His passion often manifests itself in sculptural forms, as site-specific installations and works designed to be activated on the body.
Marzan is also a teacher of Hawaiian song and dance and brings these acts of embodiment through performance and ritual into the spaces he creates. Marzan’s work has been exhibited and collected around the world and through this exhibition he presents the breadth of his work, manipulating various plant fibers alongside processed metals and synthetic materials to speak to the ever-changing landscape that each generation faces.
Artist Talk:
Saturday, June 13, 3 - 4pm
Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 13, 4 - 6pm
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm