Honolulu Weekly

Rachel Kaiser, multi-media artist and visionary who opened On the River, the predecessor to the Ong King Arts Center in historic Chinatown, will be returning once again to Honolulu and Ong King to showcase her new exhibition, Eggs and Steel.

In her latest collection of works, Kaiser tackles the concept of motherhood, a deeply personal and powerful subject for the artist. With bold colors, swooping curves and sharp angles, she is able to draw parallels and differences between mothers in the bird kingdom and hominids and juxtapose their spatial relationships to earth in the ‘grand scheme’ of life.

Kaiser brings a fresh worldliness to the table that fills her characters with life. She has lived and studied wood mask carving in Bali and her current project is designing home tiles in Montana. Accompanying her deft use of color and imagery is a spirituality that is most evident in her mixed-media shrines and the pieces that marry intercultural mediums, such as drawing, painting, wood carving and weaving.

Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St., Wed. 1/3-Thu. 1/11, 428-3233