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Kevin Lyons from Brooklyn, New York hams it up for the camera while working on his “Monsters” mural on the side of the Fisher Hawaii building.
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Alex “Defer” Kizu works on his “Spiritual Language” wall along Coral Street in Kakaako.
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U.K. artist SHOK-1 works on an x-ray shaka mural on Lana Lane.
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Detroit artist Michelle Tanguay works on her “Love Thy Neighbor” mural along Auahi Street.
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Drew Merritt works on his mural on Lana Lane at the POW! WOW! Hawaii 2017 headquarters in Kakaako.
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Jeff McMillan, of the artist duo called The Draculas, stops to chat while working. The mural by McMillan and Gary Musgrave is located on Cooke St. across from Mother Waldron Park. Pictured to the right is Steve Cortes.
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Artists hit the streets of Kakaako over the past week for Pow! Wow! Hawai‘i 2017, replacing last year’s murals with fresh imagery and works of art.
The annual street art festival brought together more than 40 artists, some from as far as the United Kingdom and France, for a weeklong celebration that culminated with a block party alongside the Honolulu Night Market on Saturday.
“The vibe has been just unbelievable,” said co-director Kamea Hadar. “We have a lot more female artists and more installation artists this year, so we’re really happy about that.”
This was the third Pow! Wow! Hawai‘i for Kevin Lyons of Brooklyn, N.Y., whose “Donuts and Rainbows” mural features his signature monsters having a party on the exterior wall of the Fisher Hawaii building facing Mother Waldron Park.
“It’s always Hawaii-inspired,” he said. “I don’t pretend (it’s) a heritage piece or anything. It’s just my feeling when I’m here.”
Across the park, on the U.S. Hybrid Building on Cooke Street, French artist Oak Oak composed a mural inspired by X-Men villain Magneto using a stencil technique.
The “Pow! Wow! Exploring the New Contemporary Movement” exhibit, which concluded Friday, at the Honolulu Museum of Art School featured close to 100 local and international artists curated by Los-Angeles gallery Thinkspace.
At the Honolulu Museum of Art, Spanish artist Cinta Vidal of Barcelona, known for her M.C. Escher-like merging of various perspectives, completed a piece called “Blow.” It is visible in the Luce Courtyard opposite the museum cafe.
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