This exhibit is in collaboration with the city’s newest event series, ‘Celebrate’ that celebrates cultures, custom, and culinary wonders from around the world. Each month at Canyon Country Community Center celebrates a new culture. The month of April celebrates the Polynesian Islands. Every first Friday from April to September, immerse yourself in a cultural celebration at the Canyon Country Community Center from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Susan Maddux’s work combines painting and sculpture into unique forms evocative of the colors and warmth of her native Hawaii and influenced by the arts of Asia and the Pacific. She was born on the island of Oahu in Hawaii to a hapa Japanese-American family where she absorbed the influence of Japanese folk-art traditions, Buddhist temples, psychedelic aloha wear, and the arts of Polynesia.

This show spans twenty years of artwork influenced by her connection to Hawaii. From stark landscapes painted from photographs in New York in 2002 to current work utilizing Susan’s distinctive technique of folding paintings into sculptural forms, the common thread is the influence of her childhood in Hawaii.

Susan Maddux: https://susanmadduxstudio.com/

Virtual Gallery: https://www.artsteps.com/embed/623e1ebd6a1040945b553e0a/560/315.

SCVTV news story: https://scvtv.com/2022/03/31/finding-art-susan-maddux-remember-the-stars-above-the-ocean-at-canyon-country-community-center/