Amber Urias

ARTIST
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https://www.amberurias.com/
Amberuriasart@gmail.com

Honolulu, a Hawaii-Based artist, and creator Amber Urias, creates on a multitude of visual formats from canvases, to wearable art. Her paintings often offer a means of escapism to an alternate reality by providing a window to a surreal and vibrant world inspired by her island home, dreams, and intuitive marks on the canvas.
She works as the Studio Artist for ARIA Creative Studio and is the Founder of Pau Hana Painters; a collective of local artists who perform monthly live art shows around Honolulu. Her art has been featured at The London Clinic exhibition for Healing through the Arts, Music, and Culture. Most recently she and Pau Hana Painters were featured at the Hawaii State Art Museum for their monthly live jazz and art night.

Kaela Kahiau

ARTIST
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Kahiau Art Shop
Kaelateho@gmail.com

Kaela Kahiau is a Native Hawaiian artist whose primary medium is paint. She began on her path as an artist with digital photography but craved to create her own worlds through more tangible mediums. She began painting to move emotions and create unique scenes and fell in love with the limitlessness of painting.

Kaela’s art has evolved with her. She uses her work as a means of emotional release as well as to create pieces that highlight moments of growth and transition, moving paint as she moves through her emotions creating pieces that inspire others to do the same. Kaela’s surreal works are inspired by the worlds that exist externally and internally within each of us, as well as the natural world.

Simone Fromen

ARTIST
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https://www.simonefromen.com/
Simonefromenart@gmail.com

Simone Fromen is a student artist based out of Honolulu, Hawaii attending the University of Hawaii at Mānoa for her Bachelors in Fine Arts. She specializes in portraiture with a particular interest in surrealism, mostly working with oil paints but is quickly learning and jumping into a variety of mediums. Simone has showcased her work through paint, digital, and garments-of which she ran a full clothing campaign. As a young, but experienced artist, Simone is jumping right into the art world, ready to take on multiple creative endeavors.

Zach Angeles

ARTIST
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https://zachangeles.com/
Zacharyj.angeles@gmail.com

After receiving my Bachelor of Studio Art from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in 2018, I decided to make the dive into Art full-time. Over the years, I experimented with mediums and taught myself advanced drawing techniques in order to visually represent my concepts. As my self-awareness grew, my work became more comprehensive & my concepts began to find its reasoning. In 2019, I became the featured Artist of Mental Health America of Hawaii. Which in turn, allowed me to advocate for the de-stigmatization of Mental Health amongst young, Asian-American males. The core values behind my work lay in 1) emotional representation through mediums/techniques, 2) advocating/showcasing emotional equity through representation, and 3) storytelling/private journaling through language. The spectrum of letters is much like the spectrum of emotions. And the question will always be “how willing are you to read between the lines?”

Jill Abelli

ARTIST
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Jabelli@voyagerpcs.com

I am an Oahu-based Italian American artist. I have been drawing and painting since I can remember. As a young adult, I received formal art training, attending undergraduate and graduate programs. My source of inspiration is deeply intertwined with my personal experiences. My images tend to focus on people in my life, moments of feeling close to the world. Mythology, spirituality, and sometimes social commentary are typically the subject matters. I see art and beauty in everyday processes and things. Washing hands, breathing, porch light on at night, humble and beautiful. The process is as important as the product for me. I like to think of art as alchemy, using paint and tools to transform a subconscious image into a tangible object. A single painting cannot capture the whole of a person or feeling, but it might give us a little piece of them, and that is what motivates me to continue trying.