Genre
Mixed – Media Collage

Technique/Media Used
Gouache, layered papers, hand-cut inkjet prints and Amate fibers on canvas

Date Created
04/30/2020

Dimensions
60″x60″x1.5″

About the Piece

‘Containment Landscape 28, Kīholo Bay’ is based on photographs I took there at the Hind Family Residence in the summer of 2020 while spending time with friends that would soon be moving away. Using the allegory of landscape, I explore notions of displacement, vulnerability and authenticity as well as my relationship to natural and supernatural worlds; drawing attention to the complicated triangulation of relationships between man, land, and animal and notions of freedom, invasiveness and belonging. This piece is part of the Arts in Public Places Collection of the Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

About the Artist

Margo Ray is a visual artist who engages in printmaking, collage and installation. She holds an MFA from Concordia University in Montrèal, Quebec and a BA in Studio Arts from University of Hawai’i at Hilo. She was raised on Hawai’i Island and has had the opportunity to travel internationally throughout her life. Her works have been exhibited in venues such as The Honolulu Museum of Art at First Hawaiian Center (Honolulu, HI), The Schaefer International Gallery (Kahului, HI), Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA) and most recently at The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (Lancaster, CA).

Margo’s studio is in the upcountry town of Waimea on Hawai’i Island where she lives with her husband and their two children. She is the co -owner of Island Eclectic, an art handling and design business.