Kosta Kulundzic: Icons (With BAM!#*)

HAWAIIAN PUBLIC RADIO
By Noe Tanigawa
Kosta Kulundzic's "Haleiwa's Saint Sebastian" (48 x 36)
HONOLULU---The UH Mānoa Art Department is hosting a live drawing installation every day except Saturday, through November 22nd. Artist, Kosta Kulundzic combines religious and European iconography with everyday scenes from the 21st century. Since moving to Hawai‘i two years ago, Kulundzic has been juxtaposing local and western art imagery with particular ferocity. Painter Kosta Kulundzic paints in a cool, flat, representational style, but his imagery puts 21st century people in quasi-religious scenes with burning crosses, dragons, Waikīkī Beach for example, with the ocean on fire. He was brought up in the Eastern Orthodox Church. [More]
Kosta Kulundzic's "St. Georges Victorieux" (76.8 x 51.2)