Nearby artist Aja Reyes opens her initial solo display, “A Colourful Human Reaction,” this weekend at Lees-Reyes Art Gallery with functions as lush in color and texture as they are in depth and meaning.

Reyes paints in a broad variety of variations, moving deftly from post-contemporary clean strains and daring colors intended to simply call to head the aerial point of view of forests and canals to softer, expressionist applications discovering the knowledge of poverty and begging.

With a swath of the present touching on numerous aspects of CHamoru and Micronesian identification as nicely as environmental conservation, it appears to be that there is no corner of human encounter that Reyes will not check out — though she’d somewhat her art invite people toward questions and dialogue instead than force irritation on them.

“It can be a conversation starter in a subject. For illustration, watershed administration, Crimson Hill, city and County of Honolulu groundwater contamination, gun legal rights, shootings, cancer, decline of know-how — excellent and negative — generational transmission of expertise. … So individuals subjects are all there, but it arrives into a a great deal extra … pleasing presentation. If someone’s not completely ready then we can continue to keep it on a lighter level, and then maybe later on go further,” Reyes stated.