Salon5 presents "Level"

Five multimedia artists unite to collaborate and share tricks, shortcuts and long views earned and learned since their initial collaboration in the jungles of Maui over a quarter century ago. Their tools are image and text, photography, craft, painting, sculpture and combinations of all of the above. Their separate messages are integrated through collaboration, and presented as individuals practicing accountability to the group. salon5 started underground, with quarterly happenings in the 1990’s and surfaced later as an official gallery in Honolulu’s Chinatown. It was inspired by Gertrude Stein’s famous salon 100 years ago in Paris and influenced by interactive performance art and artists like Barbara Krugar and John Baldesari. Many people participated in and at salon5 but these five artists were the original core. ● Michael Takemoto has been working on his current series Kovid Kreatures since 2020 on Maui. ● St. Marko conceived of his new signs in Florida and had them…