HONOLULU (November 30, 2009) – Nextdoor present The Saints Art Show Opening on Friday Dec. 4, 2009 at Nextdoor which is located on 43 N. Hotel St.

This event will be held in conjunction with the First Friday Art Walk.

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has arranged and rearranged her experiences into a current body of work that recalls the eccentricity of childhood and the expansion of adulthood's ample mishaps.  She was raised on O'ahu and has traveled the world from London to Morocco.  As a model, artist, and student, her time is filled with pious dedication to researching advancing styles in art and connecting with other artists.  She is inspired by beauty and its self-destruction, inevitable and awkward miracles, fevered outbursts and the chaotic nature of her surroundings. 

I first entered the Kamehameha Schools as a five year old with an astounding Barbie collection and an intense passion for Fruity Pebbles.  I left as a 17 year old with an acute understanding and connection to my people, an education that dwarfed the University I attended in Chicago, and the genuine belief that I was capable of anything and everything.  Ke Ali'i Bernice Pauahi Paki Bishop not only founded a school, but provided for me and many other Native Hawaiians a true appreciation for the word 'ohana.  As she has mothered generations of Native Hawaiian children, I chose to depict her in oil on wood as Madonna.  While this painting can in no way equate to what she has done for me, I humbly composed it as a symbol of my adoration and gratitude. 

Honi ana i ke anu i ka mea hu'ihu'i.  Hu'i hewa i ka 'ili i ka ua Po'aihala.  Lei ana i ka mokihana i wewehi 'o Kaiona.  Lihau pue i ke anu kau'oki o Kaleponi.  Mahalo nui ku'u Ali'i.  

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Silas Stoddard

lives on Oahu, Hawaii. He was born in Montana, and during his younger years grew up in Europe. Living mostly in Germany, Arizona, Hawaii, and Edinburgh Scotland.

After receiving his B.F.A. from the University of Arizona, he started creating and exploring different avenues of the visual arts. He received his second degree in art education. Before becoming a full time artist, he worked as an art instructor, he found it to be the best way to give back what has been so important to him.
He’s a world traveler who loves life and maintains a strong, existential and peaceful outlook in his day-to-day life. He has been involved with the visual arts for as long as he can remember. He has participated in a number of exhibitions and received numerous commissions.

Saint Morrison
Being raised catholic, I was well versed in Saintdom. I Picked Morrison as a subject because like so many people, music has been an almost religious experience for me. Jim Morrison was a musician and poet -but- probably more on the lines of an anti-saint. Growing up my early years in Europe, my head was filled with classical renderings of Saints, as they are often depicted romantically. I was always intrigued, and in a way frightened by the way Saint Sebastian has been depicted, so I fussed the iconography of the two; and mixing mythology makes for an interesting work. Saint or sinner, Morrison just had the right look.

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Douglas Po'oloa Tolentino

is a painter and full-time musician from Kailua on the Windward side of Oahu.  Douglas' art has been featured on everything from album covers to murals.  His body of work, which has expanded steadily throughout his life, began in his childhood, when he showed a natural talent for drawing and painting.  Using oil pastels, he illustrated the children's book 'Hawaii Sings' by Joyce Au and has had his block prints used as cover art for such famous texts as 'Pele and Hiiaka' and 'Unwritten Literature of Hawaii' by Nathaniel B. Emerson.  As a native Hawaiian artist, he draws inspiration from his ancestors, who are evidenced in Hawaii's history through the early documents of written culture in the islands.  His portrayals of Hawaiian people are known for their accuracy and visual engagement.

Iolani Luahine is known as one of the last great hula masters - her participation in the art of hula includes many traditions that have since disappeared from contemporary understanding of native Hawaiian religion and mysticism.  She was a teacher, dancer, chanter and practitioner of ancient Hawaiian traditions in great breadth.  She is well-known for her enchantments of animals, winds and rains - it is supposed among those that viewed her on and off stage that she had the ability to communicate with certain of the Hawaiian Gods.  Her sainthood would be based on these miraculous events as well as her work with Mary Kawena Pukui, which preserved many ancient practices and enabled scholarly pursuit of knowledge to expand in the future.

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Sonny Ganaden

Chief Justice William S. Richardson (served 1966-1982) grew up in Kaimuki, and was the first Hawaiian to fill the highest post in the judiciary since the illegal overthrow of the monarchy.  In his tenure, he controversially cited Hawaiian custom in ruling that the beaches of Hawai'i are public property, and water from natural streams cannot be hoarded.  He went on to advocate for a lawschool that bears his name, which has produced hundreds of lawyers and scholars accross Hawai'i and the world.  This holiday season marks his 90th birthday. This painting shows 'CJ' (as he is referred to by the local legal community) at high tide, on the beach that he ensured all of us in Hawai'i could access and enjoy.