“Drawing from Sand: Mark Van Wagner and John Perreault” opens Saturday at the Kaua‘i Museum in Lihu‘e. Saturday’s reception includes a lecture by the artists starting at 3 p.m., according to a press release. The exhibit closes Jan. 20. Van
“Drawing from Sand: Mark Van Wagner and John Perreault” opens Saturday at the Kaua‘i Museum in Lihu‘e. Saturday’s reception includes a lecture by the artists starting at 3 p.m., according to a press release. The exhibit closes Jan. 20.
Van Wagner uses variously colored sand and debris from Kaua‘i beaches to make his work, while Perreault employs black petroleum-coated sand from Fire Island, N.Y., the release states. The exhibit will also feature stand-alone samples of the various sands and debris from Hawai‘i and New York.
The artists met through Facebook and discovered they shared similar art-making techniques and a mutual concern for the environment. Perreault is disturbed by the oil slick that washes up on the once pristine Fire Island National Seashore and Van Wagner is troubled by the North Pacific Vortex, a whirlpool of plastic waste as big as Texas, according to the release.
Van Wagner has been working exclusively with sand since 2008, and Perreault likes to work with “alternative media,” including Vegemite, toothpaste and instant coffee.
For more information about the exhibit, call the Kaua‘i Museum at 245-6931.
